Sergio Non: What do you think your brother could have done differently against Kim at UFC 125?
Nick Diaz: I think he made a lot of mistakes. I don't think he was very focused.
We talked about him (Nate) throwing the front kick like he does. Overaggressive, he comes straight in. He threw that front kick right at the beginning of the fight, got him taken down, got him off to a bad start.
I think there's a few things in that fight that could have made all the difference.
I felt like he should have learned from a lot of my mistakes. But I think a lot of it had to do with him coming in not focused. … We talked in the gym about that.
But he (Nate) is a lot better than that guy (Kim). You could see it in that fight. He (Nate) won on damage. At the end of that fight, that guy was real banged up, you know? Taking some hard shots to the eye, to the face. My brother hadn't taken any shots.
SN: When you say he should have learned from your mistakes, what do you mean?
ND: I used to come in running in a lot, and getting overly aggressive. You get that way, because you (get caught up in trying to) win on damage. You're fighting a different fight. One guy's trying to win the round, one guy's trying to win the fight.
That's why I like dealing with Pride rules. I thought that there would be an organization that has that type of scoring criteria. I thought that show would stick around; I'd probably be fighting for them right now.
But that whole thing went under. They kind of want to do away with that whole way of fighting, even though it's been around for a long time.
The restarts and the old Pride rules, it's better.
The yellow card (if) you stall. You can't stall. You have to fight.
You can't elbow. You have to punch. It takes a lot of space. A guy on the bottom wants to get up, he gets up because you're making space to punch. It makes for a more technical aspect to come out. It makes for more transition and movement to happen. It's more exciting to watch and it makes for the better fighter to win.
The way that things are going now, you don't (always) see the better fighter win. They play a game to win.
That's what my brother needs to do, is play a game to win. Just like I should have done, is play a game to win. But it's hard to do that. That's what you saw there.
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