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Nick Diaz explains why he won't be targeting Anderson Silva's previously broken leg at UFC 183
Nov 28, 2014 - 9:50:49 AM Nick Diaz explains why he won't be targeting Anderson Silva's previously broken leg at UFC 183

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off. 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... I fought someone a long time ago. Someone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't... it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense."

-Nick Diaz explained why he won't be targeting Anderson Silva's leg at UFC 183 during the UFC's recent media event in Las Vegas (transcribed by Yahoo! Sports.com).

Penick's Analysis: It's a sensible take from Diaz here. It's not necessarily about feeling wrong targeting a previous injury, it's that tailoring your game to attack a certain injury that may have already healed takes away from what you can do in the cage. By going after previous damage specifically, there's a risk of not being effective enough with the overall strategy in the fight. Diaz thinks that's not worth it at all, and thus won't be fighting to take out Silva's previously broken leg.

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