Diaz: I’m not going to try to hold Penn down, like those other b——
“It’s not like it’s an easy fight for me,” Diaz said. “I’m not like these bitches. I’m not going to…
“It’s not like it’s an easy fight for me,” Diaz said. “I’m not like these bitches. I’m not going to hold B.J. Penn down the whole time like these guys have done. They held B.J. down because they’re bigger than him and stronger than him. I’m not going to do that. I’m not a little bitch to try and hold somebody down. I’m going to go out there and fight this tricky mother [expletive], and it could mean a lot of problems for me. It would have been a lot of problems for them, too, if they had fought him like I fight. They would have lost that fight.
“It’s a different matchup, me fighting B.J. I’m not afraid to fight B.J. I’m not afraid to fight anybody. I’ve proven that. I’ve won three belts in this [expletive] with people trying to take my head off.”
Despite the troubles Diaz caused with his absence, the fact that he was rebooked for the card would seem to suggest he could earn another shot at the belt with a positive performance. Diaz doesn’t want to speculate on what the future holds – he understands his career is at an important crossroads – but he’s not afraid to make a prediction in St-Pierre vs. Condit.
“If I would have won the fight with Georges, and they wanted me to fight again, I could have seen myself fighting Condit,” Diaz said. “I was already looking past the fight with Georges fighting thinking, ‘They’re probably going to want me to fight Condit.’
“I’ve been looking at Condit for a long time. He’s probably going to whoop Georges’ ass. I’m going to want to test myself there.”
