Nick Diaz, unjustly railroaded by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for the crime of “maybe smoking marijuana” too close to his January cage fight against Anderson Silva, needed 100,000 signatures in order to prompt a White House response to his desperate cry for justice. He had a month to get them. With two days to spare, and after a push from a collection of allies that inexplicably included the pop star Cher alongside MMA royalty like Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor, Diaz met the mark.
More than 107,000 fans (at press time) leaped through the necessary hoops to make their voices heard by the most powerful executive in the nation.