Pitbull

thaFormula.com - Yeah, I remember no one gave you a chance against him?

Nick Diaz - Yeah absolutely. They were shocked probably that I even won. Every time I beat somebody everybody is shocked that I won. I don't understand it. Every single time I fight everybody around is shocked. I'm like what the **** do you think? Everytime I always come out with a consistent same type of performance, everytime! I'm the most consistent mother****er around here and they are trying to suspend me right now for some bull****! I don't wanna be suspended, I really don't wanna be suspended. I wanna fight in 3 months like I always do. That's the thing too, I have fought every fight every 3 months ever since the first time I fought. I never had no half a year break. Every other fighter has taken a year off or a half year break. No one has been as consistent as me. I know I am probably the most featured fighter from UFC 44 through 62 considering that they dropped the lightweight division for half that time and the heavier guys weren't as consistent and they don't expect to see me whoop somebody's ass everytime. They don't wanna see me fight for the title and nobody wants to talk about me fighting for a title and they all doubt me. I'm like what if I just knock somebody out, what if one of those guys don't match up well against me and they take an ass whoppin'! I know George don't wanna see me and I know ol' Matt don't wanna see me. The other guys gave me a hard time that I fought, these younger guys, but those other guys especially don't wanna fight a guy like me. I'm the worse guy to fight. They don't wanna fight some guy that is gonna throw hooks to the head on them and they got to watch out for serious knees coming, and they are not gonna be able to hold down and manipulate. They might win but that's gonna be a whole fight, a very discouraging night and a ass whoopin' win or lose, an ass whoopin! If it were Pride I would win for sure cause its not a game over there. You can actually fight in Pride. Your not actually concerned about the scoring. and like I said, nobody comes from a big background, so these guys will fall off and their steroids you know uh, they are gonna burn out and that only leaves the MMA world with a handful of us. Then when they run out of chumps for George to fight, they are gonna need to call me up. They are gonna need somebody to call up for a title fight and they should just go ahead and give me a call, cause I'm right here ready to go. Because when they run out of chumps, I'm gonna be right here in good shape. I say the sooner the better for them because the longer they wait, the more Imma be in shape and the harder and better Imma be going. Because the way I feel right now, I feel like there is no stopping me right now. They are talking about the cut on my eye or whatever, my eye is not even messed up. I was sparring yesterday you know what I mean, because Imma whoop somebody's ass next fight.

thaFormula.com - Now let's get into your match with Robbie Lawler. Was that a match you were told you would receive if you won in the UFC or was that a short notice type match. Break that match down?

Nick Diaz - I was in Japan and I was cornering Jake Shields. I think I had just fought and I was still training a little bit. They called me and they told me while I was in Japan that I was fighting Robbie Lawler and I just wanted to go home and start training right away, but I didn't expect them to call me for a serious fight like that. I knew they might bring me back though. So I started training boxing immediately for that fight and I was really confident for the fight. I was ready to have that fight. See cause I remember watching Robbie Lawler fight and sitting at home and going, I really wanna fight this guy cause people are looking at me whenever Lawler was on TV, like oh that guy will whoop your ass. So that right away made me want to fight this guy because I know I got better boxing skills then this guy, and I know I'm gonna have better Jiu Jitsu skills then this guy cause I'm training Gracie Jiu Jitsu, and I have a good Jiu Jitsu coach, and you know good training partners in Jiu Jitsu. So automatically I wanted to fight Robbie Lawler. I was just totally pumped for that fight and it was a huge fight for me.

thaFormula.com - I remember so many people thought he was way too much for you and that you were gonna get knocked out by Lawler?

Nick Diaz - You see this is really cool that we get to talk about this, because that's the thing about the way they promoted him. It's so huge the way they promoted this guy. It wasn't so much that he was overrated, it was that he was over promoted and alot of times this Militech team can be over promoted I think little bit, but actually not so much even that. He was really huge at the time and everybody's favorite fighter for a minute you know. He knocked everybody out so he was huge. So I was like here is my chance if I knock this guy out.

thaFormula.com - During your training for the fight, did you think that you would knock him out sometime during the fight?

Nick Diaz - I thought that I would be able to win the fight as long as I didn't get cut, and if we ended up on the ground, I knew I was gonna put the arm bar triangle all the way on him and he's gonna try and pull me back up and I'm gonna throw more punches at him. I also felt that he wasn't gonna be able to be in as good as shape as me and he wasn't gonna be as sharp as me and Imma have reach on him. Also, I was sparring a southpaw that was ranked 5th in the world you understand! "Smooth" Rodney Jones just had a world title fight recently with Cory Spinks. He had a tough fight and lost a decision . So I had this really, really seriously good boxing training and I was doing a really good job sparring boxing with this world ranked boxing partner, and I knew that Robbie Lawler wasn't gonna do 3 rounds with this guy. So this is what gave me alot of confidence going into this fight. I knew he was gonna box with me, so it wasn't gonna be like he was gonna take me down and hold me like the other guys that I fought knew to do after watching me fight. And then the thing I wanna talk about also, is how over promoted he was and how he was like the poster boy. Then I beat him, but then like they don't promote me like that! It wasn't like that now. See what they did was, they automatically were like, "man we ****ed up", and they were pissed off or something, and now they got like Karo Parisyan and their like alright well then we will go with Judo. Their like, we know how to get rid of this kid quick, we will put this judo on him. I said, why can't you give me 5 ****ing scrubs like you did Robbie Lawler and let me knock them all out, cause I'll ****ing knock every ****ing mutha****er out! or just put me with Matt Hughes cause I will knock that mutha****a out right now! Cause I was really ready to fight Matt Hughes at that time, really ****ing ready to fight Hughes. But I just kept my mouth shut like a good kid, like I was supposed to keep my mouth shut and not talk trash. See cause I don't have alot of trash to talk dude, I'll let my fighting do the talking, but sometimes I'm just like I need to get a reaction out of some ****ing people or something cause this is ****ing ridiculous!

thaFormula.com - Now so many people judge you by all the **** that you talk sometimes. Does alot of that got to do with the frustrations you go through behind the scenes?

Nick Diaz - Yeah, honestly most of it is frustration and I know it's me against the ****ing world and its always been that way. Its all odds against me, trust me. I already know that though. I already know that I am going in all odds against me. You don't understand how I felt when I started this thing, like I had no chance. I didn't realize I was gonna be doing halfway decent and I feel like I'm doing pretty damn decent, but regardless I'm against all odds in this. That's just how I take it, how I look at it and that's just how I train, like I still don't have a chance to win. Because the only way to win is if your not afraid to lose and I ain't afraid to lose. I ain't afraid to fight none of these m***********, especially the way it looks out there with these m**********.

thaFormula.com - Was there ever talk about a Lawler rematch and was that something that Lawler wanted?

Nick Diaz - I don't think so. Robbie Lawler looks like he's doing a good job right about now anyways and he's fighting at a higher weight and I never heard anything about that, but **** that! I don't even wanna hear about that because we don't even talk about me rematching m********** that I beat! What about Karo Parisyan, this mutha****a does not wanna fight me again dude.

thaFormula.com - Now let's get into that fight with Karo because that was a great fight?


Part 2 should be posted soon.

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