{"id":119485,"date":"2014-11-17T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=119485"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:09:57","slug":"diaz-gsp-hes-scared-fight-anderson-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/diaz-gsp-hes-scared-fight-anderson-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaz on GSP: &#8216;He&#8217;s scared to fight Anderson Silva&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/diaz-gsp-hes-scared-fight-anderson-silva\/nick-diaz-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119486\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nick-diaz.png\" alt=\"Nick diaz\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nick-diaz.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nick-diaz-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Nick-diaz-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the UFC&#8217;s special &#8216;UFC: The Time is Now&#8217; press conference earlier today, Anderson Silva and Nick Diaz joined a star studded UFC cast for a live Q&#038;A with fans and media members.<\/p>\n<p>A media member asked Nick Diaz what he thought of Georges St. Pierre&#8217;s comments regarding Nick&#8217;s decision to fight Anderson Silva at middleweight, in which GSP said Diaz made a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz responded to the question in true Stockton bad boy fashion.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The thing is about old Georges is he&#8217;s not doing the fight, okay? So, he didn&#8217;t take the fight. He could barely say two things and he&#8217;d get the fight, just like that. But he didn&#8217;t want the fight. He&#8217;s scared to do the fight, and he&#8217;s scared to do the fight at 185 pounds, and he thinks that we have so much in common that maybe I don&#8217;t want to do the fight at 185. How the f**k does he know? Who knows, maybe I have a harder time making weight than old Georges does. I come in there skinny as s**t. Georges packs on an extra 20 pounds of muscle. I&#8217;m like, that&#8217;s what I have to do to fight at 185 pounds. So you can look at it like, however you want, but the thing is, the fact is, I&#8217;m like he didn&#8217;t really take into consideration what&#8217;s what when it comes to what&#8217;s really on with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not that [Silva] is not going to, but he doesn&#8217;t have to show up on weight, doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m not going to fight,&#8221; Diaz added. &#8220;The fact is that we&#8217;re both going to walk out there, and I&#8217;m going to be a lot smaller if I try to make a catchweight and my opponent decides that he doesn&#8217;t want to make weight. Now I actually have a real issue to do with, and that&#8217;s a real physical possibility. I&#8217;m not concerned about who gets fined a little small 10-percent or whatever, because you didn&#8217;t make weight or something. As far as I know, Anderson Silva, he&#8217;s always made weight. What&#8217;s one time you don&#8217;t make weight?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Silva and Diaz are set to fight at UFC 183 on January 31st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the UFC&#8217;s special &#8216;UFC: The Time is Now&#8217; press conference earlier today, Anderson Silva and Nick Diaz joined a star studded UFC cast for a live Q&#038;A with fans and media members. 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