Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley Conference Call Quotes
by Nick Thomas on Apr 1, 2011 9:47 AM EDT
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"(I'm not) overly impressed with (Paul Daley's) MMA skills, as far as a well-rounded fighter. (But) it's a good match-up. A lot of the time, you don't get to see strikers fight each other."
"(On Jon Jones and Rashad Evans) They're not real training partners. They're like 10 years apart ...They didn't grow up training together. And then the guy is just brand new into this sport. They've got him so busy making photo shoots and press conference and conference calls and all that. I'm missing practice right now (by doing) this! I'm missing a very serious practice."
"(About Cesar Gracie) It's more than training partners. We're a family. It's just not right. And if you're offering me $10 million to fight my boy, then I'm sure somebody's going to offer me $8 million to fight somebody else."
"I like (the old strikeforce rules of banning elbows on the ground) because it just reminds me of the way the Pride rules used to be. The elbows just kind of help (a wrestler) so that they're not going to stand the fight up, he just throws those short elbows. And then it's cutting me up, and I'm not getting paid as much as boxers are. I'm just looking (out for) everybody's best interest."
Paul Daley:
"(About UFC buying Strikeforce) The sport's going to be a monopoly. In 10 years' time, people are going to be calling MMA the UFC. I think that's bad. But it's a big opportunity to become Strikeforce champion ...so I decided that I'd take the fight in the end."
"I'm sure Cesar Gracie, knows for a fact that I have monkey-like arms. My reach is actually the same as Nick Diaz. Nick's taller than me, but his reach is the same as mine."
"It's not secret that I'm not a jiu-jitsu wizard, and I hate wrestlers that are just going to lay-and-pray, so my offense is to knock people out, and I've been very successful doing it."
"As far as my bargaining power when I become Strikeforce champion, I'll just leave that up to my manager. But I saw Nick Diaz's purse in his last fight, and I would be asking for that kind of money. I know he's probably not driving a Honda no more, so let's just say that."
"When people look back the history of MMA and the history of British MMA fighters, they'll remember me as being the first guy that won a major U.S. title. I'll always be there in history."
"(About the Josh Koscheck incident) I regret it and apologize to the fans that actually really do give a (crap) about me, my loyal fans that follow me; I'm sorry for embarrassing you."
"My weight's fine, but I'm not going to lie. Coming from a five-round fight against a Japanese fighter, Yuya Shirai, and then trying to bounce straight back into another fight camp for such a big fight wasn't ideal. I would have liked to have a longer period of time to prepare specifically for Nick, but saying that, it has its positives and its negatives. My fitness is where it should be for a five-round fight."
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I swear all i ever hear from these two
is whining and bitching
Maybe the next “secondary” league will be a no wrestlers allowed league so people like Diaz, Daley, Hardy, ect can have somewhere where they can fight and not bitch about wrestlers.
by dbcb on Apr 1, 2011 10:09 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
These two make it incredibly hard to root for either of them
Damn, I love their skills, enjoy watching them both fight, but wish they would shut up half the time.
Go Orange(men)!
I'm really surprised there hasn't been epic trash talk
Seriously don't take me serious. Seriously....
I hear you
But I can’t lie. I find wrestlers extremely boring to watch. People make comparisons to Fitch and Shields which I find ridiculous. Shields is always advancing his position and looking for subs. Fitch is perfectly content to lay in half guard and consistently land low-power strikes to win rounds. He cannot be stopped by anyone not named Georges St. Pierre so why change up? Well for one, he’s constantly ridiculed by his boss and the fans.
Round winners are boring. Until the scoring criteria is reformed, this what we have to live with. For every Ellenberger and Koscheck, there are 10 Nik Lentz. Everyone knows that wrestling is the most dominant base, but let’s cut the bullshit already. It’s fucking boring to watch. If you decide to take it to the ground, great! But please have some intent on finished via Sub or GnP. This just isn’t the case today.
by OhhhGLS on Apr 1, 2011 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is gonna be good.
I want Nick to win but the last couple of days I keep seeing Daley landing a big hook to Nick’s mug.
by pud333 on Apr 1, 2011 10:11 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
then what happens?
you wake up?
If you wanna throw down in fisticuffs, fine! I've got Jack Johnson and Tom O'Leary waitin' for ya...right here!
by ODBasyoucansee on Apr 1, 2011 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Top fights for me this year (in terms of pre-fight anticipation)
1. Diaz-Daley
2. Silva-Belfort
3. JDS-Brock
I love this stylistic matchup so much. Next Saturday is going to be amazing.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
I'm really hoping Daley wins
and in impressive fashion. Really want to find out what Dana wil do with him. After all, he has apologised many times, done less than some UFC fighters have done to tarnidh the company name and he puts on a standup fight with fireworks.
Dana slammed the smothering wrestling of Shamar in the first episode of TUF 13, why? Because it is dull. Daley is exactly the kind of fighter that fans like to watch and therefore if he keeps winning, he will be back.
Also, having a British Chamion will expand the market and appeal here in the UK big time. Money talks and Dana lies – two truths about the UFC.
It takes a big man to cry. But it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man crying.
If Daley would have just shut up after apologizing I bet he would have been back by now.
But he apologizes and then he keeps chirping. and chirping. and chirping.
Fuck, even Barnett wised up. Does BAMMA pay that much or something?
I also have a question if the UFC offers him 10 million to fight his boy, whose going to offer him 8 million to fight someone else??? WHO????
I've got something to say; it better to burn out than to fade away!!!
Wandy, Hendo, Vitor and Chael; the Berlin Wall of the Middle Weight top 10. Spitting, sensitive, sandy Brits (MB) need not apply.
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4th or 5th round sub
For nick, you heard it here first…… Maybe
Seriously don't take me serious. Seriously....
The only way this fight goes to the ground is if Daley allows it.
I foresee Nick being unable to take him down.
by Rob Young on Apr 1, 2011 10:33 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Since when did Nick Diaz become a striker?
Alves, Howard, Daley, Penn, Condit, Johnson. These guys are strikers. Nick Diaz, not so much.
Jules: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
just because his striking is a little unorthodox doesnt mean he’s not a striker. Nick can bust you up on the feet. And i would say its very few fights where nick is greatly out matched in the striking dept.
However I do believe this fight to be one of them. Daleys power is freakish.
"its either going to be genius or its going to f***ing suck. Until I see the first cut I have no idea. But you know what? Neither does anybody else"
Rory 'The Waterboy' Macdonald
Thiago 'Pitbull' Alves
Yushin 'Thunder' Okami
Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua
Dominick Cruz
L@SER MANIFESTO
sorry and i forgot to add that I still think Nick could cause problems for Daley on the feet. But I dont think giving a guy like Daley 5 rounds to land one of his signature hooks is a good idea.
"its either going to be genius or its going to f***ing suck. Until I see the first cut I have no idea. But you know what? Neither does anybody else"
Rory 'The Waterboy' Macdonald
Thiago 'Pitbull' Alves
Yushin 'Thunder' Okami
Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua
Dominick Cruz
L@SER MANIFESTO
But who has he fought that is a striker on the level of the guys i mentioned above. I to this day think Diaz has fought nothing but mid to low-mid level competition in SF. Daley will be his first test in years. He gets away with his striking because for some reason all the people he fights have no head movement and just let him throw those curvy punches all day till they gas.
Jules: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
you make a very good point. And its something that i can really agree with. The level of competition hes faced maybe hasnt been the greatest.
That being said I believe the unorthodox style he brings with his striking (that plus the fact that its not always the best idea to take a guy like nick down if hes beating you in the standup dept) make him a formidable striker. Of course all of this is really just speculation on my part and these question will get answered when he fights daley (hopefully)
"its either going to be genius or its going to f***ing suck. Until I see the first cut I have no idea. But you know what? Neither does anybody else"
Rory 'The Waterboy' Macdonald
Thiago 'Pitbull' Alves
Yushin 'Thunder' Okami
Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua
Dominick Cruz
L@SER MANIFESTO
True.
I just think that he has gotten to caried away at being able to strike people that dont even defend the punches and take them in the face. I honestly feel that Diaz will get beat by a good majority of the WW in the UFC.
Jules: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
He sure beat the hell out of Gomi on the feet, and gomi is considered a striker, not to mention he beat the pro boxer KjNoons.
by TheBiggertheyare... on Apr 1, 2011 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
He sure beat the hell out of Gomi on the feet,
kinda…
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by Chris Barton on Apr 1, 2011 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
This is why I love Nick Diaz
“(On Jon Jones and Rashad Evans) They’re not real training partners. They’re like 10 years apart …They didn’t grow up training together. And then the guy is just brand new into this sport. They’ve got him so busy making photo shoots and press conference and conference calls and all that. I’m missing practice right now (by doing) this! I’m missing a very serious practice.”
No one can ever say he doesn’t work his ass off.
by Matt D on Apr 1, 2011 11:09 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Daley doesn't gotta go full-Barnett
But he’s really blowing it with his comments. Settle down. Be a businessman first.
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by Charles Awad on Apr 1, 2011 11:13 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I really enjoy the fact that he understands what he did was an embarrassment, and that he still apologizes.
by TheBiggertheyare... on Apr 1, 2011 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Ya but his grumblings kinds puts the whole gun, aim, shoot off foot thing, in perspective.
I've got something to say; it better to burn out than to fade away!!!
Wandy, Hendo, Vitor and Chael; the Berlin Wall of the Middle Weight top 10. Spitting, sensitive, sandy Brits (MB) need not apply.
Nerdsole Wars; X Box 4 life.
This fight is going to be Paul Daley vs Martin Kampmann Version 2. Diaz doesn’t have the wrestling to get this fight where he wants and he’s going to get knocked out on the feet.
If you're having fight problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a Fitch ain't one.
kapman isn’t as good of a boxer as diaz and dosent have diaz’s chin…. besides their powerr (or lack of) I’d say kapman is a cheeper version of a better diaz.
by Joshro on Apr 1, 2011 12:25 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
A hilarious April fools
would have been misquoting them saying respectful and meaningful things.
"Clay "The Missing Link" Guida!!!"
“It’s not secret that I’m not a jiu-jitsu wizard, and I hate wrestlers that are just going to lay-and-pray, so my offense is to knock people out, and I’ve been very successful doing it.”
except when your taken down by top 5 talent or anyone who dosen’t want to stand with you
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The sport’s going to be a monopoly. In 10 years’ time, people are going to be calling MMA the UFC.
they’re already doing that…
Mind Freak:
In 10 years’ time, people are going to be calling MMA the UFC
… they’ll remember me as being the first guy that won a major U.S. title.
How will they remember you winning a major title if all they know is UFC???
“My weight’s fine, but I’m not going to lie. Coming from a five-round fight against a Japanese fighter, Yuya Shirai, and then trying to bounce straight back into another fight camp for such a big fight wasn’t ideal. I would have liked to have a longer period of time to prepare specifically for Nick, but saying that, it has its positives and its negatives. My fitness is where it should be for a five-round fight.”
lol the Shirai fight lasted like one minute… funny pulling that “coming from a five round fight” to another one lol
He trained differently to prepare for a five round fight than he would have a three round fight....
…is what I got from that comment. Especially when he says that he’d rather have had more time to prepare for Nick but his fitness is where it should be.
He probably spent more time training his fitness/endurance for the Shirai fight than he did refining technique. Shirai obviously was a threat on the ground but not on the feet, so Daley was not going to have any problems unless Shirai managed to extend the fight into the later rounds and get it to the ground. He’ll have to worry about Nick’s standup game as well as his ground game, which means in an ideal world he’d have had more time to work on the specific techniques that he’ll be using in this fight: TDD, counter striking, getting back to his feet if he’s taken down.
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