Dana White thinks Cesar Gracie is a “Huge part of the problem” with Nick Diaz.

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There are almost too many stories to report on just on Diaz and GSP alone this week. The media has almost exclusively set their lights on the main event, while almost nothing (seemingly) has been discussed on a level even near the GSP/Diaz hype train. That, combined with the fact that everyone from GSP’s ex-manager discussing GSP’s secret want to fight Anderson, to now Dana White suggesting that the Cesar Gracie camp may be better suited without the Cesar Gracie in the name, is just crazy. From GSP’s darkside, to Nick Diaz dominating the media day, it’s like everything in Montreal is down and up and left is right. We promise, a Marquardt, Condit, or Hendricks article will be posted, it’s just difficult when there are so many interesting nuggets of information falling into our lap.

These are some of the interesting tidbits spewed forth by Dana at the epically long UFC 158 open media scrum:

“I think Cesar Gracie is a huge part of the problem to be honest with you. First of all the tweet that he tweeted. Second of all, he comes out and says ‘oh well the guy who is producing it lives up here in Northern California so how much could this really be costing them?’ I mean this [expletive] guy has no clue about production and to come out and say something that asinine is unbelievable. When we send up a crew to shoot these things, what do you think we are sending? A guy with a [expletive] camcorder? The guy who shoots those features has been working in the sports world for thirty years and the crew he has got around him are good too. “

Gracie on why Diaz missed the open workouts:

“All the other guys flew in before he did and what’s funny is Cesar Gracie planned his flight because Cesar said if he goes earlier he won’t show up. I mean we don’t just throw flights together, we work with the teams and we have never had these issues before but we are dealing with Nick and we know that. We are dealing with a very different situation here than we normally do.”

Dana gives props to the team Cesar has created:

“I don’t make those decisions, that’s up to them. Obviously, as far as a trainer goes, Cesar Gracie must be a damn good trainer cause look at the camp he’s created. But Cesar Gracie likes to play bullshit games that drive me crazy.”

“I think Cesar is a d***, that’s what I think. I think Cesar does some stuff that’s just bulls***. I don’t think it’s an act or a schtick or anything else.”