Rousey lashes out at NSAC over Diaz suspension

Ronda Rousey says it was wrong for the Nevada State Athletic Commission to suspend her friend Nick Diaz for using marijuana. AP

Ronda Rousey ripped the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) following the latter’s decision to suspend her friend Nick Diaz for marijuana use.

While promoting her upcoming fight in Melbourne, the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion said the NSAC’s five-year suspension on the former Strikeforce champion was plain wrong.

“It’s so not right for him to be suspended five years for marijuana,” Rousey said, as per MMAFighting.com. “I’m against them testing for weed at all. It’s not a performance-enhancing drug. It has nothing to do with athletic competition. It’s only tested for political reasons.”

Diaz has been suspended from competition for five years after a post-fight drug test failure following his UFC 183 match against Anderson Silva.

It’s the third time Diaz has appeared in front of the NSAC for marijuana use with previous events following his fights against Takanori Gomi and Carlos Condit with a total of 18 months of suspension as punishment.

“Nick is a very close and dear friend of mine, so of course I’m going to defend him,” she said, “but it’s so unfair if one person tests for steroids that could actually hurt a person and the other person smokes a plant that makes him happy and he gets suspended for five years.”