Jay Hieron scored a solid victory last night over Joe Riggs but it wasn’t the guy he wanted to beat. The welterweight, fighting out of Las Vegas, spent much of 2009 chasing Nick Diaz. Diaz is regarded as Strikeforce’s top welterweight and officially picked up the Strikeforce 170-pound hardware last night with a win over Marius Zaromskis. It had to eat away at Hieron, who was promised a title shot, beginning in the middle of 2009.
"Diaz didn’t want to fight me. [He didn't say that but] the fight
was presented three times on the table. We never fought," Hieron said. "I signed the
contract every time. The first time, five days out he didn’t go to take the drug
test. The next fight, we were scheduled for the CBS fight. Diaz turned
up missing. He was on a milk carton. ‘Where’s Diaz at?’ That gives me
the impression he didn’t want to fight me…
