I never said Paul didnt have some skills, but put Paul into the octagon with Diaz and Diaz would destroy him, as would Anderson Silva, let alone Jon Jones at Pauls weight level. Ive said it in an earlier post, mma and boxing are two different sports with different skillsets, just because an mma fighter needs boxing skills to compete, it does not make him/her a pro boxer, the same way that just because a pro boxer knows how to throw a roundhouse kick, it doesn't make them a kickboxer or mma fighter.
I hold a martial arts black belt, but I make no bones about how I would fair against a boxer in fight if I couldn't use my entire skillset, and vice versa.