Nick Diaz förlorade senast mot Anderson Silva under UFC 183 och det visade sig sedan att Silva var dopad under matchen. Tränaren Richard Perez hävdar nu att Diaz skulle ha vunnit matchen om Silva inte tagit steroider.
Här kan ni höra vad han hade att säga, via ”Submission Radio”:
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Well this is what I figured; I almost had him where he wanted to be. We had like a week and a half to go left, and I was gonna go full force with him, but where I stopped, I felt like he would do fine. I knew he wasn’t going to throw a lot of punches. I knew that. But I figured he would catch Anderson Silva. But since Anderson Silva’s on steroids, it’s hard to knock people out when they’re on steroids. It’s hard to really wear ‘em down. But if I had of worked with him a little bit more that week and a half, I guarantee you he would’ve stopped him. If I would have been there coaching him, it would have made a big difference too.
Silva slowed down a lot. In this fight he slowed down a lot, and I don’t know if it was the steroids, or just the long layoff, delay. I don’t know. There’s three things, you can focus on those; and that’s the long layoff, the leg, and the steroids.”
If he didn’t come in with steroids – even though Nick wasn’t throwing a lot of punches – Nick would have stopped him and I know it would have been different. Steroids make a big difference, steroids make a big difference.
