![]() ![]() It’s hard to see inside here, but I’m ready to go. I don’t know, I’ll have to watch the fight again. If you’re going to give me a free show, I’m going to take it,” he added. If you lay down in front of me, I’m going to come in and get you. “I don’t know how he wins, on damage or what. Maybe that would be better for you, but then I wouldn’t be here today,” continued Diaz. If he was just going to walk around, we’re not really fighting. “I don’t think, these judges like my attitude out here sometimes, but I have to push my guy to throw so I can get my fight going. I was asking the last round, am I winning, am I losing this fight, is it close,” he said. “I felt like I was ahead most of the time. In fact, he thought he had won all five rounds. When the scorecards were being read, Diaz expected his name to be announced as the winner. “ I said, ‘let’s go.’ I said, ‘come get you some.’ I was like, ‘throw it,’” said the Stockton native. Diaz revealed what he was saying to Silva during the fight in his post-fight interview. This is the UFC,” said the former champion. I have to thank my doctor and the doctor that performed my surgery.”Īsked about the in-octagon antics, Silva said it’s just part of the spectacle that viewers get when he or Diaz competes. ![]() In the beginning I thought that I wouldn’t be able to come back. “I went through a lot of suffering the past year, everything that I went through. “This is a very important moment for me, a very important moment for my whole family, for all the Brazilians,” said Silva following the win. When the decision was read revealing Silva the winner by unanimous decision, Silva was overcome with emotion. Diaz walked around the perimeter of the cage holding his hands above his head. It was a competitive fight that entertained, and after five rounds of fighting, Silva was confident he had done enough to win on the judges’ scorecards. Silva opened up a cut above and below Diaz’ left eye. But as the rounds wore on, Diaz’ face began showing the damage that he was taking. He was successful in delivering strikes while in the clinch. Diaz stayed in the fight, landing to the body and catching Silva with combinations. Silva remained composed and landed leg kicks and jabs. He put his chin out and shuffled his feet. He backed up to the cage like Silva did when he faced Stephan Bonnar at UFC 153. Even against the great Georges St-Pierre I dared to dream. In every other Diaz tilt Ive been able to convince myself, whether logical or not, that there was a path to victory for Stocktons finest. ![]() He laid down on the canvas in front of Silva. But even as Nick Diaz s biggest fan, its been hard for me to get too excited about his fight with Anderson Silva at UFC 183 this Saturday. He and his opponent kept things respectful in the build up to the event, but the taunting and trash talk began almost immediately.ĭiaz pulled out all the taunts in his weaponry. He looked light on his feet as he circled along the outside of the cage in the opening moments of the fight. Heading into the bout with Diaz, questions remained about how Silva would respond after such an injury at his age. At the time of the injury, many questioned whether Silva would ever fight again. The 39-year-old returned for the first time since snapping his leg while throwing a leg kick that titleholder Chris Weidman checked at UFC 168 in December 2013. He was also a fighter that for a long-time defied age and was a pound-for-pound talent deep into his 30s.It had been over a year since former middleweight champion Anderson Silva made that long walk from the locker rooms, through the tunnel and into the Octagon when he faced Nick Diaz in the UFC 183 main event on Saturday. Silva was a talent that beat some of his opponents before they even reached the cage. ![]() He was a competitor that had a legitimate aura akin to Mike Tyson in his prime. The Spiders Web: At his peak, Anderson Silva was a truly special mixed martial artist. ![]()
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