MMA News: Nick Diaz Will Not Focus His Gameplan On Trying To Hit Anderson Silva’s Leg

Nick Diaz may be the bad boy of the mixed martial arts universe but he has some gentlemanly aspects in him. The UFC middleweight fighter said he would not throw off his game plan on trying to focus on hitting the leg of his upcoming opponent Anderson Silva.

Diaz and Silva are scheduled to meet in the highly anticipated UFC 183 on Jan. 31 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Spider is coming off a vicious injury that saw his leg broken in two from the forceful kick he unleashed on the shin of current middleweight king Chris Weidman. The injury was graphically captured and was so brutal that many experts were calling that it might just be the last bout of Silva in the Octagon. Now, that the Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter is back, Diaz is saying that it is not in his style to target Silva's recent injury.

"When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off," Diaz said according to Yahoo Sports. "It would be sad to lose a fight on account of, you're trying to concentrate on capitalizing on someone's weakness when it comes to injury and something like that, [rather than fighting] your fight without worrying about something like that."

He recounts a previous experience when someone in his corner told him that the opponent had an injured knee and that he would have to try to hit the knee some more but he relented. Diaz said that it would be unrealistic to go after a guy's injury except in cases if the injury is a cut. He explains that if an injury is a cut in the eye, he would take advantage of the said impairment.

The controversial American fighter surprised some people in the media by saying that he does not enjoy fighting and proposed a scenario wherein the person swapped with his shoes two days before a fight which is a frightening experience. He then discussed that he is not paid nearly enough just like the other fighters in the UFC who risk their lives to provide world-class entertainment.

The former Pride and Strikeforce talent is making a return to the UFC after a brief hiatus. He previously bowed down to Georges St. Pierre in his last fight at the Octagon last March 2013 but did not consider retirement. St. Pierre commented after the fight that Diaz could not handle the jump to middleweight instead of demanding a catch weight. Diaz is hoping to prove all detractors wrong by showing his full arsenal against one of the best UFC legends of all time in Silva.

Watch below how Diaz reveals that St. Pierre should have taken the fight against Silva:

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