At a Strikeforce event in California in April 2011, the main event featured a fight between Nick Diaz and Paul Daley.

Like many other fights, trash talks and threats preluded the Strikeforce fight. Once inside the bout, the duo started on a high. In just five minutes, both the fighters had their moments.

Coming into the fight with a nine-game winning streak behind him, Diaz had to fight for survival. Daley initially had Diaz down for well over 10 seconds but couldn’t capitalize. Daley once again had his opponent down and gave him a hammer fist. However, Diaz managed to survive and eventually knocked out Daley with three seconds to go for the five-minute mark.

Nick Diaz believed the fight wasn’t fair

In an interview with MMA.com after the fight, Diaz believed the wasn’t fair.

“If you call that a fair fight, I don’t know how people think that’s a fair fight. That wasn’t a fair fight,” he said. “I just fought, I got kicked up in the leg. I got up, what does the guy do? He tries to kick me right in the leg. That’s not a fair fight, man.”

“My other fight before that wasn’t a fair fight. None of these have been. I’ve got people out to get me. Every fight, I’m fighting blind opponents. I don’t know who it’s going to be, who I’m fighting if I’m really fighting them.”

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Diaz then had a heated relationship with Strikeforce. He expressed his dissatisfaction over Strikeforce involving him in too many fights.

“Nobody gives a [expletive] about me,” he said. “They’re over there, throwing me into fight after fight after fight. Going, ‘Oh, this guy will knock him out. We’ll get rid of him like that!’ You’re going to have to find some other way.”

“I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much,” he said. “I’m not going to be the one to back out of these fights.”