Free Fight: Nick Diaz vs. Drew Fickett

By Chris Pagliuca on January 28, 2015 in News

UFC 183 is taking place on Saturday, January 31st at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event will be headlined by a middleweight bout between two of the most renowned fighters to ever grace the octagon in Anderson Silva and Nick Diaz.

Before we see Diaz take on Silva, we will take a trip down memory lane, all the way back to UFC 51, which took place nearly 10 years. On this fight card, a then 21-year-old Nick Diaz made his fourth UFC appearance against Drew Fickett.

Diaz displayed his dangerous jiu-jitsu game early on in the fight to put Fickett in some danger from his guard. From there, Fickett would drop drop to his back in search of a guillotine choke multiple times. This would eventually put him in a precarious position toward the end of round one and give Diaz an opening to finish the fight via TKO.