Was Diaz a victim of a bad decision?

Diaz has no one to blame but himself. If he checked a couple leg kicks in that fight he probably wins. If he cut the cage off a little better he probably wins. He could have shot in and taken the fight to the ground sooner.

He could have done a bunch of things differently to try and win the fight and he didn’t, so he has to live with that.

No. It really could have gone either way. He should get a number contender bout now though.

I agree with both tha dude and d&h points. This was a close fight, and when it is that close everybody knows not to leave it in the hands of the judges. Not sure what Nick was thinking with his logic of i went forward so i should have won, no matter how bad i was outstruck. The outrage online is a little doubious to me as well.
d&h raises an interestin point about Diaz not checking some of those leg kicks, that could have been critical in scorring. Add that to the fact that he didn’t cut the ring off very well, and never really tried to take Carlos down. Man with them points the fight would have had a different outcome, i think.
Eitherway a pretty entertaining fight. One guy stuck to the gameplan, which had the right stuff to frustrate and beat the man touted as the man destined for the championship. While Diaz basically let a fight get away from him, that he allraedy thought was his. Then when he is disgusted with judging, he announces his retirement.
I hope i get to see Diaz fight again, while i find myself suprisingly liking Diaz a little more then the total disdain i have held to him for years. He is just going to have to work his weigh back up the welterweight ladder. If George beats Carlos, you can bet the bank that Diaz will be there to fight him, for sure.

I mean, it wasn’t a robbery, by any means, but I thought he pretty clearly won the fight and I was surprised by the decision. I feel I should add that I don’t blame Condit at all for the way he fought and that I think he had a very good game plan he implemented pretty well; the fight wasn’t like I expected it and I was a bit disappointed by how much less exciting it was than I hoped for, but those guys are fighting to win, not to entertain me.

The only really clear round was the fourth and it was Condit’s, I don’t think there’s any disputing that. The fifth looked like it was going the way of the fourth but I think the take down and the groundwork more than made up for its beginning. I scored the first three for Diaz and I thought that the third was easily the clearest for him. Condit out landed him, but I don’t think there was all that much in most of those shots. He did mix in a few hard shots with the softer ones but, personally, I felt Nick landed the better blows. I could say the same for the first two as well, although I would have no problem with the first being scored a draw or even for Condit. This is after I watched the fight again, when I was a bit more sober.

All that said, I think neither guy fought to his potential. I believe Condit could have executed a similar plan while still putting more power in his blows and that Nick should and could have adapted or at the very least have tried to adapt his game to the realities of the fight. Good fight, nowhere near as good as I hoped for (for which I blame both guys) and a decision I disagree with strongly while I still feel is both understandable and defensible.

Because he looked like a bit of a one trick pony in there (apart from the takedown right at the end). Even when he was being outstruck there was no plan B just bombing forward and trying to cut off the cage.