Nick Diaz-Mayhem Miller...fact or fiction?

Strikeforce elite Nick Diaz and Jason Miller have certainly been doing their part to help promote a fight that may never happen.

It all started last April, Strikeforce held it’s first event in Nashville, Tenn., on a CBS card at that, sporting a record three championship bouts with such stars as Gilbert Melendez battling Shinya Aoki for the lightweight strap, 205′ers Muhammed Lawal and Gegard Mousasi, and then middleweights Jake Shields and Dan Henderson.

After his upset victory over the former dual Pride champion, Jake Shields, who know finds himself in the thick of things in the UFC’s welterweight division after leaving the San Jose based organization for their rival promotion, was greeted by former foe Jason “Mayhem” (how ironic) Miller.

One thing let to another, bada bing bada boom, and a full out brawl erupted in the cage, with Nick Diaz at the helm.

As Miller was pounced on by the whole Cesar Gracie crew on national television, he didn’t hide his sour feelings towards the situation, particularly Nick Diaz, when he appeared on UFC commentator, comedian, and marijuana advoate Joe Rogan’s UStream show, stating simply “[expletive] Nick Diaz”, stating that the 170-pound Strikeforce champion helps perpetuate a stereotype of a glorified “gangster” lifestyle, by jumping Miller in the cage and just his all around sour attitude.

While his tirades of the UFC veteran seemed funny on several occasions, one man wasn’t laughing…a Mr. Nick Diaz, who caught the spectacle and applied with a Youtube video of his own, which most certainly did not help his image of a “gangster”, after going on his own rampage of “F” bombs and mothers alike.

And in the end, he criticized Miller for calling him out, suggesting that he should pick on someone his own size, and if they fight should come to fruition, Miller, the former Icon Sport Middleweight champion, should make the drop to 170.

Puzzling, considering Diaz has come close within striking range of the 185-pound weight class several times, meeting both Frank Shamrock and Scott Smith in catch weight bouts, above the 170-pound limit and a little bellow the middleweight’s cap-off.

So is this just smoke being blown around? Well if there’s smoke, there’s fire. And if there’s fire, than either Nick Diaz is passing time between his fights enjoying certain “herbal medicinals” in his spare time, or we have a legitament fight on our hands that fans will surely clamor for, and one that Miller is itching for.

So, should Nick take the leap to possibly meet Miller in the suggested middleweight tourney ocurring sometime in the foreseeable future?

Or should Miller make the back to 170–a weight he hasn’t seen since facing Georges St. Pierre some years ago in the UFC, on a short notice call.