With knots on his face and cuts over his right eye and on the bridge of his nose, Diaz looked like he had run into a buzzsaw, which he said wasn't far from the truth.
"He was just too (bleeping) fast," said the former 1996 U.S. Olympian whose record fell to 34-2-1, 17 KOs. "I've seen him on tape, but I said I could deal with that speed. The power was what I was concerned about. But he was too (bleeping) fast. I thought Freddie (Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach) was in there hitting me too."
Diaz showed a solid defense and tried to be aggressive but he was just too slow to get off and establish any momentum. The cuts didn't help. Diaz said seeing his own blood for most of the fight didn't bother him, but he joked that it caused him to wonder.
"I thought he had a knife in there with him,'' he said. "I thought he cut me with a blade. But he was just fast. I could deal with his power. I got beat by his speed."
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