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News: Strikeforce’s Nick Diaz: “People Think GSP’s Better Than Me and It’s BS”
There are a lot of fighters who will take exception to many of the rankings in the world of MMA. One person who is more than happy to let his feelings be known is Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz, who keeps calling out Georges St-Pierre because everyone tries to tell him that St-Pierre is the best fighter at 170 pounds.
Well if that’s what everyone is saying, he is tired of listening to it.
Diaz, who spent several years with the UFC early in his career, has spent the last few working for different organizations including EliteXC and Strikeforce. During that time he’s established himself as one of the toughest competitors at 170 pounds, and thinks it’s high time people recognized his work.
“I think I got here and started fighting before most of them, including Georges St-Pierre in the UFC. I was really mad because they were getting fights and recognition when I was here first. I thought it was first come, first serve. I was working harder and I was here first,” Diaz commented on Thursday.
Diaz also brought up St-Pierre’s last opponent, Josh Koscheck, who he believes deserves no place among the top fighters in the welterweight division.
“Josh Koscheck, I cornered a guy to fight Josh Koscheck, he probably had two fights in his life, and this fight he was set up to fight Josh Koscheck. They made easy fights for those guys. This guy’s got like six or seven fights, all easy guys. I never fought anybody like that guy that’s fought against Josh Koscheck,” Diaz explained.
“We’ve got some guy who doesn’t even fight, he drinks at a bar, and we took him to fight Josh Koscheck one day. He didn’t even know who he was fighting. I’ve never had fights like that. So when you bring up guys like that to me and tell me they’re the best fighters in the world, it’s a (expletive) joke.”
While it’s true that Diaz is in a different promotion than St-Pierre or Koscheck, he believes that the organizations could work together to make the fights happen that the fans and critics want to see.
“Straight up, people think this guy’s better than me and it’s (expletive),” Diaz said about St-Pierre. “He just fought Josh Koscheck for (expletive) five rounds, I just told you about Josh Koscheck. Why are you saying he’s the best? What is that (expletive)? Because we fight for different companies?
“I think it’s big enough to where they can get enough money involved where they can organize that show.”
It’s obvious Diaz is more than willing to face anybody that steps in to fight him, but if there is a consolation prize it’s the fact that he believes his teammate will take the crown off of St-Pierre’s head come April 30 at UFC 129 in Toronto.
“Right now, what do you want? You guys rank that guy above me. I want to fight GSP, but I think my partner (Jake Shields) will take him out regardless,” said Diaz.
He also named UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva among his dream fights, but ultimately he wants to prove he’s the best whether it’s against St-Pierre or someone in Strikeforce. He’s ready for the test.
“It’s a joke to me. This guy may be a good fighter now, but these guys that are ranked up there, I was here first and that’s fine,” Diaz shouted. “Let’s fight then and make it happen.”
Nick Diaz Interview: Talks About Sacrificing for MMA
Nick Diaz on:
- 0:42 Wishing MMA would give back to him, not getting paid enough to stop fighting
- 1:18 The sport of MMA not being promising
- 2:30 Learning Jiu-Jitsu at 16 and running at 2am
- 4:03 Being a guinea pig
- 5:03 Jason "Mayhem" Miller not wanting to fight
- 5:36 Being disappointed in losing all those decisions
- 6:35 Not understanding how to win rounds in the UFC (vs. Diego Sanchez)
- 8:09 Intimidating people with his attitude
- 8:30 Getting paid, getting money
.. no doubt he IS smoking a little to much of the good shit! GSP would take him out, but to be 100% truthful here I actually belive he would stand up better against GSP then his L n´P loving training buddy will do cause he is absolutely useless in the standup derpartment while Diaz is not! No doubt GSP will do another stand up fight against such a good grappler, why not use your advantages against the opponent? Shields will face defeat, wait and see! As would Diaz against GSP, but at least Diaz is familiar with the feeling! + he can go numb his feeleings with a fat one afterwards, go lick his wounds so to speak!
Anyway, I´m a fan of GSP so I´m biazed here and pherhaps not the right man to tell? ThoughI also like Diazes crazy stunts and find them quite enjoyable to watch/listen to.
Since GSP has become a "safety-first" fighter people have seem to have forgotten that the guy is one of the best strikers in all of MMA. If GSP fought Diaz and threw caution to the wind he could easily tool Diaz standing up.
There is literally no part of MMA that Nick Diaz is better then GSP at.
Yeah probably, though Diaz have this crazy awkward style when he box??? To me it doesn´t look very hard and his hands goes in a wide angle where he pick up speed just before the hand hit his opponent! Also he doesn´t hold his hands glued towards his head either, almost like he shoots directly from the hip.
Very strange looking, lots of angles and probably hard for the opponents to know exactly where it will land? I have always ejoyed watching that strange yet effective style of Diaz, I belive his brother have a very similar style.
Remember back in Pride when he was facing Gomi?
Who would have bet on that outcome? Diaz absolutely peppered Gomi with those shots and I bet they´r not as "loose" as they look?
I would love to watch him against GSP, even though my money would be on the Canadian. At least I would enjoy that fight moore then Shields vs GSP! Shield may be a sick grappler, but really, to beat GSP you should be moore wellrounded or have some serious luck.
This might be a cruel awakening for Shields? It´s not like he can go back to 185 for an easier way towards that UFC strap either, cause there awaits an ever better striker.
well he is probably not better than gsp but he is right..
people rank the ufc fighters first cause they think that the ufc is a better organization, that sucks..
im pretty sure that diaz would kick koscheck's ass cause koscheck really sucks, and like diaz, i never thought that koscheck should get the title shot, he's not one of the top fighters of that division..
check also rankings of heavyweights, cain velasquez is ranked first by most people, well why ??? because he beat lesnar ??? that doesnt make him the best at that division, it only makes him the best in the ufc, this guy has only 9 fights..
alistair overeem has 46 fights, fedor has 35 fights.
they also put big nog before overeem, antonio silva and werdum, WTF ???
in middleweight they put rashad evans and rampage jackson before gegard mousasi, WTF?
and where the hell is hector lombard in the rankings ?? i think he should be no.1 today, and he's not even on the lists..
it goes on and on..
people thinks that the ufc is the only mma organization, and that is a problem created by the monopoly that dana white created..
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+ he can go numb his feeleings with a fat one afterwards, go lick his wounds so to speak!
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