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Nate Diaz says he hurt himself in training prior to UFC on Fox 13 bout with Rafael dos Anjos
Dec 14, 2014 - 5:00:25 PM Nate Diaz says he hurt himself in training prior to UFC on Fox 13 bout with Rafael dos Anjos

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"I don't want to make excuses. I hurt myself. I'm going to fight always. I have to get paid. You know? I have a life to pay for, I have to eat... I'm not like these other guys who pull out of fights due to little baby injuries, you know? The other fighters are breaking hands and little baby toes and pulling out of every fight. I've been injured for 10-15 fights, but regardless to what happens is, I'm going to show and do what I can do. I wish I had a little more to work with this time around, but I came with what I had and I wish I could have got more done."

-Nate Diaz talks to Ariel Helwani at MMAFighting.com after UFC on Fox 13 about why he took the fight with Rafael dos Anjos despite having a bad camp and suffering an injury prior to the fight.

Penick's Analysis: Diaz put himself in a spot where he wound up needing to fight even while injured, because he held out to renegotiate his contract when he didn't really have any leverage with which to do so. Now, if he had a really bad camp, it might explain the way he looked in the fight with dos Anjos, because he was absolutely awful in that one from the outset. Regardless of the reasons, though, he still lost badly, and he's now lost three of four. I could see the UFC deciding to end their relationship with him, but we'll have to see what he tries to do now. If he's willing to step back into the cage off a better camp now that he has even less leverage to try to renegotiate his deal, they may yet give him another shot.