Diaz wants to take on GSP or Silva
According to HeavyMMA.com, Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz wants to take on Georges St. Pierre or Anderson Silva.
Nick Diaz is scheduled to defend his Strikeforce welterweight crown against Evangelista Santos Jan. 29 in San Jose, Calif., but that didn’t stop him from calling out UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre on a media conference call Thursday promoting “Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg.”
“I want to fight Georges St. Pierre,” said Diaz.
Diaz’ Cesar Gracie teammate Jake Shields takes on St. Pierre at UFC 129 on April 30 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.“I think my partner (Jake Shields) is going to take him out to be honest, coming up,” added the Strikeforce champion.
“I got here and started fighting before most of them, including Georges St. Pierre, in the UFC. I was really mad at first that they were getting fights and recognition when I was here first,” said Diaz when asked how he stacks up against other top ranked welterweights.
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This is absolutely hilarious. Nick Diaz talking trash about the quality of GSP’s opponents? Seriously? This coming from the guy who’s best win ever is probably Gleison Tibau?
Diaz would get smoked by Jon Fitch or Thiago Alves, let alone GSP.
That’s weird he s saying he was there first and they got more recognition? Nick lost to karo, joe rigss, and to diego sanchez who beat karo, and joe, kos beat diego and pierre out classed kos twice that’s why they got more recognition pierre beat karo too so yea nick is pretty tough but he s nowhere near being good enough to fight pierre, alves, koscheck, I say put him agianst condit, hardy, or like mike swick
Obviously Nick Diaz is still smokin’ the ganja
Really, I don’t think my first comment was strong enough. This is a man talking about GSP having it easy by being matched with Koscheck, rougly a week before he’s set to defend his “title” against Mr. Cyborg Santos. What an idiot.