Diego Sanchez savages fighters like Guida and Condit for running/spoiling tactics...

On Monday's edition of The MMA Hour, Sanchez told MMAFighting.com's Ariel Helwani that

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"I thought both of those fights sucked," Sanchez said of Diaz-Condit and Guida's loss to Gray Maynard. "My coaches might get mad at me for that, but that's my opinion and I'm allowed to have my opinion.

"I thought Nick Diaz won the fight with Carlos.

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That's my opinion, that's why I want to fight someone like the Diaz boys who will come and step in front of you and fight you. I guess that's all opinion, but the fans, they have my back on this, and that's what fighting's all about. It's for the fans, and Dana White knows this. That's why he gets so pissed off when there's crappy fights like that.

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Sanchez, who is on the sidelines after getting surgery to repair a torn left labrum, was careful to say that he places the blame for poor fights on the fighters themselves, and not coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Winklejohn.

"It's on that fighter," Sanchez said. "In the end, they lock the door and the coaches aren't in there with you. In the end, if you're in the UFC, you are a professional, you paid your dues, and you know exactly what this job entails.

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. I'm going to leave it all out in the cage and

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Asked the obligatory "who do you want to fight" question, Diaz said a bout with Nate Diaz appeals to him for all the right reasons.

"The UFC's smart," he said. They'll capitalize on my entertainment and what I bring to the table and what I bring to the cage, and that's a raw, exciting warrior mentality. So, matched up with any of those guys [at 155], the guy I want the most is Nate Diaz. If he wants to scrap, I know he's knocking at the door of a title shot, so, I have all the respect for him in that area. So, you know, if things don't work out with the timing, he's the one that I'd like to fight, because I love them Diaz boys. They're two of my favorite fighters, they come and they bring it and they scrap, and I love it.

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Sanchez said he anticipates an early 2013 Octagon return. Until then, he reminded fans one more time that it's on fighters to get the job done.

"Don't give Greg and Coach Wink the hard rap," he said. "

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Nice work Diego. :good

This is the most important part of what he said IMO:

"know that I'm trying to finish my opponent, even knowing that most of my time it ain't going to be a finish"

It's all about intentions. :deal

 

I don't think Sanchez is calling Condit's whole career into question, just one performance.

 

I didn't like Condit's tactics. The choice open to a striker is not merely:

A - Stand in front of someone and let him ragdoll you at will

or

B - Run the clock down by disengaging and trying to nick the fight on the cards

But I debated this issue enough at the time, can't really be bothered going over it all again. I didn't like his tactics in the fight, I think he was capable of fighting with intelligent aggression based around in-out movement, rather than sticking to an evasive, retreating gameplan designed to win a decision.

 

And it's not as if Sanchez just flails around chucking punches like a drunk in a pub carpark, Sanchez is a rounded, skilled, versatile fighter who (like the Diaz brothers and BJ Penn and Hendo and JDS and Cain and (most of the time) Anderson Silva etc) approaches fighting the right way.

 

A Diaz Sanchez fight sounds like a war in theory. If Sanchez isn't past it

 

Nick Diaz vs. Diego Sanchez 2?

*Does cartwheel*

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!