Is he supposed to say that he just got his ass whipped?
"To be honest, I didn't even know if I was going to fight till the night before the fight. That's when Don King gave us a signed contract. It's kinda hard to get mentally prepared for something when you don't know for sure if it's going to happen or not. So it's always a big, big deal when you don't have the contract signed for the fight until the night before the fight."
Diaz's camp firmly believes that the deck was stacked against them, from large, prominently displayed placards that carried King propaganda against Savannah, to the selection of gloves and various other ancillary issues related to the fight.
"I truly believe this is a new inspiration for me. With Don King we were doing a lot of fighting back and forth, back and forth, every single fight that we fought, we had to fight with him and argue because he wanted to extend my contract," Diaz explains. "The contracts for the fight would come, 15, 20 pages and the big difference is that for this fight, I signed with De La Hoya, the contract was made and I signed the fight contract and it was only two pages long, stating where it was going to be, how much I was going to get and against who. So that right there is a big relief, a big change. It's a big difference."
