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After Nate Diaz lost a close split decision to Gray Maynard at UFC Fight Night 20 he posted an interesting comment on GracieFighter.com:

"I fought like garbage and I'm sorry to my fans for my performance. I was hesitant about throwing hard punches because I kept thinking he was going to go for a takedown. It looked like I was knocked down in the second but actually he stepped on my foot and when I tried to back out I slipped. I really don't think I'm going to stay at 155lbs. I don't make enough money to have to drop this much weight so I'd like to fight at 170 and only go to 55's every once in awhile. You know if you look at his[Maynard's] face compared to mine right now you'd think there was no way he beat me in a fight but I've never been too popular with the judges."

Usually when fighters lose a close decision they move down in weight but leave it to a Diaz to invert that concept.

Unfortunately this is just such a horrible idea. Diaz may be 6-3 inside the UFC but he is 1-3 in his past four fights. Since Nate won the fifth season of TUF he got the champion treatment so those early victories don't represent the top talent of the lightweight division. Going 0-3 against top lightweight wrestlers like Gray Maynard, Joe Stevenson and Clay Guida means that any move up to welterweight --where there are even bigger and stronger wrestlers-- will be an absolute catastrophe.

Update: Diaz says he plans on jumping around weight classes as oppose to permanently move up to 170lbs.

SBN coverage of UFC Fight Night 20: Maynard vs. Diaz