You start doing the math on the variables involved here, and soon it gets tough to know how seriously to take any of this.

You’ve got Nick Diaz, who’s always been a somewhat unreliable narrator about the events of his own life. You’ve got a TMZ cameraman, doing the usual TMZ schtick where it’s part interview, part hero worship, part just two bros in a parking lot shooting the breeze.

Then you’ve also got the other thing, the domestic violence charges still hanging over Diaz’s head in Las Vegas, where his lawyer was in court just last week arguing against a proposed bail increase.

Still, according to Diaz, he’s going to fight “next year.” Then again, he also goes on a bit of a digression about how he would have beaten Georges St-Pierre if the former UFC welterweight champ didn’t “cheat,” so it’s possible this is Diaz in Just Saying Stuff mode, and none of it is meant to be taken literally.

As for that arrest on domestic battery charges?

“I was framed,” Diaz said with a laugh.

If that’s a man who’s at all worried about where his life and career may be headed these days, you sure wouldn’t know it.

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