Diaz: I don’t know how they judge fights
Nick Daiz: “I don’t know if you guys are sitting there right now, like ‘he thinks he won, how stupid. How does he think he won?'”
Saturday night at UFC 183, Nick Diaz had his first fight in 20 months, up a division, vs. the greatest fighter in UFC history. The judges called it 50-45, 49-46, and 49-46. At the post-fight press conference, Diaz said he doesn’t get the numbers.
“I felt like I won every round,” said Diaz to Joe Rogan immediately after the bout, as transcribed by Marc Raimondi for MMA Fighting.
“I know how I feel at the end of the fight,” said Diaz later at the post-fight press conference. “I don’t know what the judges are thinking, but I definitely pushed forward the whole time. I don’t know how they judge fights sometimes.”
“I get real confused on how to win a fight out here initially. And then nowadays when you watch their counterstrikes and all that stuff. I don’t know what’s what until I see it. I don’t know how many punches were thrown or what. I just know that I could see this guy’s punches. He don’t think he could have finished me. If anybody was gonna finish anybody it was gonna be me finishing him.
“I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It’s never happened. It’s not in me, I think. I’m real quick to just criticize somebody for even going there. ‘Are you doing this really? Are you really gonna not try to finish this fight?'”
“I can see his punches coming a mile away. The more he punches, the more he was gonna end up with the sh*t end of the stick, so he wasn’t gonna punch or anything.”
“You see me out here, I didn’t try to intimidate this dude or anything like that leading up to the fight. Maybe that could have won me the fight. He stayed the hell away from me the first round when I came out and flipped the switch on.”
Silva has a history of sometimes clowning his opponent, but in the first round Diaz went Barnum & Bailey, laying on the ground, talking, gesticulating like a conductor, and later showing “the Spider” his backside.
“I’m sure the judges don’t like that,” Diaz said.
“I don’t know how people think, either. I don’t know how you guys saw the fight. I don’t know if you guys are sitting there right now, like ‘he thinks he won, how stupid. How does he think he won?'”
What did you think?
When asked what was next, Diaz was non committal.
“it’s really crazy coming out here. I’m kind of tired about being a loser,” he said. “I’m doing well about this being a job compared to the other guys out here. … I don’t know what to make of it right now.”