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Strikeforce stars has his sites on UFC fighters...

Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz (23-7 MMA, 4-0 SF) is scheduled to face Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos (18-13 MMA, 1-0 SF) soon, but Diaz has his eyes on the more distant future - where he'd love to take on UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre and UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva.

Diaz called out the UFC champs Thursday during a conference call in support of next Saturday's "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg," which takes place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA.

"I think my partner is going to take him out," Diaz said after calling out St-Pierre while referring to Jake Shields, who meets St-Pierre in the main event of UFC 129.

Diaz feels St-Pierre and other big names were handed out "gimmes" against sub-standard competition while he was given a steady stream of harder fights. An example, he said, was Josh Koscheck, who fought Chris Sanford in his first post-reality show appearance. Diaz says Sanford was not prepared.

"He was set up to fight Josh Koscheck, and then he takes an ass-whooping," Diaz said. "That's what I'm saying. They made easy fights for those guys. I never fought anybody like that guy that I had brought to fight against Koscheck."

Diaz argues that policies like this make St-Pierre and Silva's high rankings dubious.

"When you bring up guys like that to me and tell me they're the best fighters in the world, it's a [expletive] joke," Diaz said. "That's a joke to me...Straight up, people think this guy is better than me, and that's bull [expletive]. What do you guys want? You've got the guy ranked above me...You've got magazines with all these Abercrombie-looking [expletive] fighters walking around and cutting weight."