Joe Riggs Gives No Quarter to the Handicapped; Update on Back Injury
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The love/hate relationship between Joe Riggs and his agent Ken Pavia is a matter of public record. In fact, Pavia has enough admiration for Joe Diesel that he has no problem blowing up the dude's spot once in a while, as in his latest column for MMA Junkie. Though this story about Riggs's run-in with a paraplegic grappler isn't quite on the level of the Ricco Rodriguez car-accident switcheroo, it's still pretty amazing. Check it:
[Nick] is a son of a bitch who is 200 lbs. of super-human upper-body strength and walks on his hands because he has no legs, literally...The first time Pat Miletich [told Riggs] to roll with him he thought it was a joke. Diesel playfully obliged and got into his guard. Nick proceeded to clap his stubs, which end mid-thigh, into Joe’s jugular vein and twist his arm off. He said his neck was sore for two weeks as a result. Joe said he got pissed and cursed at him. He said, “Let’s go again.” This time Nick grabbed him in a leg lock and was so strong that Joe was forced to tap again. But Nick, who apparently didn’t like to be cursed at, said “not yet Joe” and torqued it further. That kind of stuff doesn’t go ever well among fighters.
Now, Joe was really heated and demanded to try again. Well, he lasted a little longer — like a minute — before it was tap No. 3...Diesel was so upset that he stormed off to the locker room and showered up. In came Nick walking on his hands and Joe, in an act of retribution, proceeded to pee on the shower floor.
Nick then forced Joe to shampoo his hair for him. No, not really, but I like the visual.
By the way, Riggs is pain-free after undergoing a procedure yesterday to freeze three nerves in his lower back that were pinched by an out-of-place disc suffered in his fight with Cory Devela, and wants to get back in the cage as soon as possible. As Riggs told Pavia: "Make sure Devela doesn't fight anyone else. I don't want him exposed before I smash him."