Injured UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre is making no bones about picking a fighter to root for to win the interim welterweight title at UFC 143 on Saturday. The champ wants Nick Diaz to beat Carlos Condit, but perhaps his mind is clouded by passion. Passionate disdain for Diaz that is. Here's GSP talking to UFC.com:
"I am very nervous that Carlos Condit will win on Saturday night, and that I won't be able to fight Nick Diaz this summer. I feel bad, it is weird that I want (Condit) to lose, but I have never wanted to fight anyone as much as I want to fight Diaz. I don't truly hate him as a person. I don't know that he is a bad guy, but I hate what he brings to the sport with the disrespect and the unprofessional things he says and does. It is sort of a professional hatred. He has been nothing but disrespectful and arrogant towards me.
"I respect Carlos Condit, but I want Diaz to win. It will be a weird feeling, sitting at the Mandalay Bay wanting Nick Diaz to win. I want this fight with Diaz so badly, as badly as I wanted the title shot when I got down on my knees. I have never asked (UFC President) Dana White for anything, but I did ask to fight Nick Diaz. I was (crushed) when I had to pull out of this weekend's fight hurt, but I am determined to get back to the Octagon as soon as possible to fightthis guy. He needs to hold up his part and beat Carlos Condit on Saturday to make this fight happen.
""The way I see it, I am not the champion anymore on Saturday night. I have not fought since April, against my will, but I understand the champion must fight. You have to put the belt on the line in order to call yourself champion, the best in the world. Right now I am not the best in the world, I am injured. The winner of this fight on Saturday will be more than just the new No.1 contender, but he won't be the new champion either. The winner of this fight will have to beat me to become the true world champion and I will have to beat the winner of this fight in order to call myself the best in the world again.."
GSP was originally set to fight Diaz at UFC 143 but had to pull out in early December for reconstructive surgery to repair a torn right ACL. He had to miss a scheduled title fight with Condit at UFC 137 due to a strained right MCL. He is expected to return to face the interim champion in the summer or fall of 2012.
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Diaz has set up a permanent home in GSP’s head. lol.
Patrick Tenney - February 1, 2012
prime real estate
I wonder how a pissed George fights, as we’ve never seen it before
Cory Braiterman - February 1, 2012
He’s gonna to
whip his assout point the shit out of him!DayGeaux - February 1, 2012
Hug him… to death.
Patrick Tenney - February 1, 2012
indeed
I think the victory in Georges’ head will be stifling Nick’s weapons and frustrating him, holding him to no action.
That will be sort of awesome, but probably unsatisfying for the fans.
As for Nick, he doesn’t do boring fights, so we’ll see.
oxala75 - February 1, 2012
The last GSP fight that I was pumped for was because I thought he’d get beat…so I haven’t been pumped for a GSP fight in a long time.
DayGeaux - February 1, 2012
He looked pretty pissed against BJ Penn the 2nd time around…
Shnak - February 1, 2012
Glad someone finally taught Nick about real estate.
SanFranpsycho - February 1, 2012 via mobile
lol’s were had.
Rody Diaz - February 1, 2012
yes we have the second bj fight
benten20 - February 1, 2012 via mobile
He wasn’t really mad in that one. If anything UFC 83 was the closest we’ve seen to “angry Georges.”
Machiel Van - February 1, 2012
Machiel Van - February 1, 2012
I have no issues with that stoppage
But I remember watching that fight and wishing it would go another round cuz Serra was getting wrecked and I loved it
RashadsLeftNipple - February 1, 2012
This is called Hate
Krimson - February 1, 2012
Sure we have, Serra II and Penn II.
CstBoog - February 1, 2012 via mobile
meh
I dunno if he was legit pissed for Serra. Focused, determined… I don’t really recall him saying he hated him.
I kinda feel the same way about Penn, but it was definitely further up there than Serra
Cory Braiterman - February 1, 2012
GSP pissed off?
Nah, not at all.
What does he do at the end of the fight? Shake their hands, tell them you will become better after this fight, blah, blah, blah . . .dinosaurs, lions, tigers and bears. Paleontology. Improve my jiu-jitsu . . . . his physique, tire out his shoulders, etc. I’m doing more gymnastics.
VeeisAnimated - February 1, 2012
full missionary for 5 rds
TheDreadedMarco - February 1, 2012
I really hope Diaz has gotten into GSP's head.
Because then maybe GSP will actually fight with some emotion now.
pud333 - February 1, 2012
I like GSP
but he sounds kind of whiny and lame. Maybe it’s lost in translation.
SteamboatWillie - February 1, 2012
The dude’s favorite thing to talk about is dinosaurs…
DayGeaux - February 1, 2012
Nothing wrong with that
Especially if it’s about T-rexs and velociraptors.
dv8shun - February 1, 2012
Seems more like a Parasaurolophus or Diplodocus kinda guy
Mjub - February 1, 2012
He comes off as a much less boring dude in french.
Sweet Scientist - February 1, 2012
He's out of competition for almost a year, people've been calling him irrelevant and asking whether he should be stripped of his title.
In addition, the onlookers get bored of their gladiators’ ‘safe’ style of fighting. My guess: somebody told him that while he isn’t fighting, he needed to at least market himself and have himself talked about. And they’re probably right.
pornflake - February 1, 2012
Not going to happen
Gsp will bring too much emotion to the table against Diaz and will lose due to carelessness. Diaz will become the undisputed welterweight champ and all will be right with the world.
TheIrishLemon - February 1, 2012 via mobile
And then youll wake up and realise you've shit your pants and everything is back to normal.
Chin Check - February 1, 2012
I only
Shit my pants when I drink my face off and have some late night taco bell…but still doesn’t change the fact that Diaz will soon be the number one welterweight in the world. But thanks for playing!
TheIrishLemon - February 1, 2012 via mobile
based on their skillsets
A healthy 100% GSP is the perfect style for beating Nick so sorry you lose but quoting you thanks for playing.
benten20 - February 1, 2012 via mobile
Yes
A 100% healthy gsp would have a perfect style…of lay n pray for 5the rounds. Truth is no one comes back 100% from an acl tear, its just not reality. It does not matter who you are, gsp is not some god. Just a goofy French Canadian, and would not have balls to stand with the greatest welterweight fighter of all time….Nick Diiiiiiaaaazzz!
TheIrishLemon - February 1, 2012 via mobile
So you’re saying the only reason Diaz will win this fight is because GSP will not be at 100% Nice of you to admit that.
And what if GSP humiliates him? What does that say about Diaz if he gets beat by a less than 100% GSP?
Shnak - February 1, 2012
Lay n pray is not fighting…it’s laying on top of someone for 25 minutes..
TheIrishLemon - February 1, 2012 via mobile
It’s fighting… to not fight.
Machiel Van - February 1, 2012
GSP doesn’t do Lay n pray… if you think he does, you don’t know what MMA is.
Shnak - February 1, 2012
Right…and i am Anderson Silva. People need to face the fact that GSP is all but done and need to come to terms with fact that a kid from the 209 will soon rule the Welterweight division. Also i have a strong suspicion that i know miles and yards more about MMA than you my friend. Lastly, if you are so confident that GSP will beat Diaz, set up a paypal account and put you money where your mouth is…
TheIrishLemon - February 1, 2012
Waste of time, It'll be paying jackshit...
Because EVERYONE knows GSP will smash Diaz!
Well everyone except the delusional Diaz fanbase.
Chin Check - February 1, 2012
Gsp fans are obviously retarded
Not playing the line stupid.. I would easily bet you 100 bucks on Diaz..but I’m sure you would puss out..being a scared gsp fan..don’t be scared Homie!!
TheIrishLemon - February 2, 2012 via mobile
What he's saying...
..is GSP will never be the same since he took an arrow to the knee
mentasm - February 1, 2012
hell yes!
biggant - February 1, 2012 via mobile
I don't know
I’ve never seen Diaz held down for three rounds, so until that happens I’d give him a decent shot.
discoandherpes - February 1, 2012
Thats because hes ducked every wrestler/top controller that came his way
And the ones he couldnt (Diaz, Parisyan, Sherk and Riggs) he lost to.
Chin Check - February 1, 2012
GSP better not release the dark side of his he talked about in the primetime episode,
he might finish a fight
Mizu - February 1, 2012
his mind*
Mizu - February 1, 2012
It's going to look like the end scene of Bruno
menckenstein - February 1, 2012
Why did everyone stay and watch
if they hate gay people?
TheFilt - February 1, 2012
they paid
that’s why I stayed. I rented Borat for 50 cents… turned it off ~5 minutes in when he started making out with a girl he introduced onscreen as his sister. Paying the $12 was a major incentive to stick Bruno out.
The Lethal Haze - February 1, 2012
I meant the people at Straight Dave's Man Slamming event
Why did they stay and watch two dudes make out if they hated it?
TheFilt - February 1, 2012
People love to be morally outraged
I assume its the same reason liberals watch Fox News… and also why internet hate is the new national pastime.
I honestly don’t remember most of Bruno. Its better that way.
The Lethal Haze - February 1, 2012
Even if by some miracle of god that Diaz gets past Condit and GSP to become the champ
I can see any decent WW wrestler stripping the belt straight off him… Fitch, Ellenberger, Koscheck or even Hendricks come to mind.
Chin Check - February 1, 2012
When people say this it makes me scratch my head.
Hes going to beat GSP but lose to koscheck cause koscheck is a wrestler? what
Tats16 - February 1, 2012
in my mind
It’s people thinking he won’t be the same wrestler after coming back from the knee injury.
benten20 - February 1, 2012 via mobile
If he is able to beat the greatest MMA wrestler of all time
We would lose to Fitch, Ellenberger or Koscheck?
GTFO.
discoandherpes - February 1, 2012
EVEN IF BY SOME MIRACLE!!!
This is MMA after all and anyone can be caught…. Did u not see the Serra fight?
Chin Check - February 1, 2012
I think GSP is in trouble with Nick or Carlos
biggant - February 1, 2012 via mobile
HATEHATEHATE
Now click your heels three times, and go back to Lodi.
SanFranpsycho - February 1, 2012 via mobile
Lodi New Jersey?
biggant - February 1, 2012 via mobile
Lodi, NY?
Victor Rodriguez - February 1, 2012
I like watching Nick Diaz fight
but his lack of professionalism is annoying.
rarson - February 1, 2012
GSP was difficult to lid
I_Mad - February 1, 2012 via mobile
Diaz is going down
By points or submission. GSP is a technical fighter. Is that why everyone is against him? You’d rather see a lesser talented guy at stand up but good on the ground just throwing crazy punches like what’s-his-face? Leonard Garcia? That’s entertaining? No. I’ll be just fine if GSP grinds Diaz by points or submission…or if he breaks his face the way he did to Koscheck.
I actually hope it’s a 5 round bloody war with a KO/TKO/Submission in the last 2 minutes of the fight! GSP!!!!!
Ragnar808 - February 1, 2012
It’s also funny when people say GSP is going to have trouble with either of these guys…..They are great fighters…but it’s been a long long time since GSP has had trouble with anyone.
Ragnar808 - February 1, 2012
I'm a big GSP fan but ain't no way he submits Diaz.
If he finishes it’s a TKO.
Sweet Scientist - February 1, 2012
Like Diaz gets a freak “Cote style” injury and so it has to be ruled a TKO?
Machiel Van - February 1, 2012
Cut stoppage seems more likely.
Sweet Scientist - February 1, 2012
Mat burn stoppage
DayGeaux - February 1, 2012
I don't think GSP finishes it anyway.
But if he does, a doctor stoppage is pretty much the only way I see it happening.
Sweet Scientist - February 1, 2012
Yeah Diaz cuts easy so thats very possible.
DayGeaux - February 1, 2012
I’d like to see Diaz quit on his stool, personally. That would be the ultimate lesson of humility for him.
Shnak - February 1, 2012
The Diaz brothers are such tough mutherfukers that I doubt that ever happens
discoandherpes - February 1, 2012
Yeah, ain't happening.
Sweet Scientist - February 1, 2012
Nobody ever thought BJ Penn would quit on his stool either… and GSP made him. It wouldn’t surprise me if Diaz did. I see a lot of ground and pound with plenty of elbows thrown his way, and he’s not going to like it one single bit.
Shnak - February 1, 2012
BJ’s corner wisely threw in the towel. If BJ had been able to decide, he would’ve unwisely continued. He barely knew where he was when they stopped that fight.
Machiel Van - February 1, 2012
BJ ain't the Diaz brothers
I’ve seen what they look like after they lose. Penn, after the Fitch and Diaz fights, was despondent and defeated. Diaz on the other hand, wants the fight to keep going at the hospital.
Pantherhare - February 1, 2012
Well Nate for all intents and purposes did quit in the MacDonald fight… Rory was having his way with a lifeless body by the end of that fight.
Shnak - February 1, 2012
rec'd for using "intents and purposes"
and not “intensive purposes”
That one drives me crazy.
Shaun32887 - February 1, 2012
Funny, I’ve never seen anyone write “intensive purposes”…
Shnak - February 1, 2012
If you had
you wouldn’t think it was funny.
Machiel Van - February 1, 2012
lol people actually write/say "intensive purposes"?!?
I’ve never run across that but man it would be worth a good laugh.
Cocytus - February 1, 2012
he will never quit
biggant - February 1, 2012 via mobile
I think, contrary to popuylar belief
Diaz is a technical fighter, too. He has holes in his defense, for sure, mut he’s a supreme mind gamer and his offense is consistently brilliant.
some schmuck in texas - February 1, 2012
Technical is fine
but I want some emotion as well.
Which is why Carlos Condit is my favorite fighter.
Shaun32887 - February 1, 2012
Man, people turned on GSP QUICK
I love seeing this side of him. If Diaz gets past Condit, GSP is gonna run through him. I can’t wait.
Charles Awad - February 1, 2012
One of my favorite anti-Diaz moments was when that kid was ragdolling Nate Diaz all over the place….3 slams in about 1min 30sec…..Corey McDonald was it?
Ragnar808 - February 1, 2012
Rory MacDonald
MemphisMike - February 1, 2012
Yeah, shows you how fickle fans can be.
I’m looking forward to GSP coming back and making everyone look foolish for even thinking of picking against him.
pud333 - February 1, 2012
GSP and Nick Diaz, heated rivals!!!
“Joe, those guys genuinely hate each other.” – Goldberg
VeeisAnimated - February 1, 2012
I think his preferred phrasing is:
“These men do NOT like each other”.
VenusBlue - February 1, 2012
His hate is so . . . so . . . so full of hatred!
BTW, love the Sonnen quip.
VeeisAnimated - February 1, 2012
That’s a rather nuanced view point on the differences between champion and number one. Not what you’d hear from some meat head jock. I think GSP lives up to his “intelligent athlete” persona.
castleeb - February 1, 2012
Intelligent Athlete?
Dr. Rhadi Ferguson, yes.
GSP, not so much.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/01/07/dr-rhadi-ferguson-discusses-his-scholastic-approach-to-fighting
VeeisAnimated - February 1, 2012
This is very cool! Thanks for sharing that with me.
castleeb - February 1, 2012
If this were anyone but gsp I'd say nick has already won
Diaz has already won the mental game going into this fight by making the other person Yale things way too personally. Most any other fighter would get hot headed and make mistakes in the cage. But this is GSP. When GSP becomes very emotionally invested and charged in a fight, he personifies what we all look for in a champion. Consider Hughes 2, Serra 2, and BJ 2. He transforms into an extremely fierce, super focused, incredibly skilled fighter who destroys people.
Cocytus - February 1, 2012 via mobile
Huh?
Maybe I’m off base here, but if GSP got down on his knees to beg for a title hasn’t he already asked Dana White for something? Does it not count because getting on your knees is more like begging?
I guess this is kind of like when GSP says that his half-hour sessions of dry humping his opponents don’t make him a boring fighter, but rather a safe one. Because safe is exciting!
mannfretti - February 1, 2012
Here's an interesting video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eci_rVr9m6s&feature=related
A very good interview with Nick, and some great footage of him supplying himself as a brilliant training partner for Rousey.
Drunken cutman - February 1, 2012
I wonder if it would be better for mma
if Diaz won? If he beat Condit and GSP, that would be huge and possibly make him a big draw for ppvs. Maybe not, but with his personality and fighting style I could see it happening. Also, we’d get to see GSP’s quest for a title shot again, and setting up a big rematch in Diaz vs GSP 2.
If GSP wins though, and this time not in a boring decision, maybe that would be better since it would get some hype and excitement around him again instead of whats going on now.
Tats16 - February 1, 2012
Well, the UFC certainly want Diaz to win, that much is clear.
Drunken cutman - February 1, 2012
I hope they bring GSP in the ring after Diaz wins the title. Nick will tell him to his face that he is scared and faking injuries.
WAR DIAZ - February 1, 2012
I really hope so too, let Diaz smell the fear on gsp, can’t wait to see that Canadian get his shit kicked in
TheIrishLemon - February 1, 2012 via mobile
GSP will not be impressed by Diaz’ performance.
RobtWeaver - February 1, 2012
DAMN THATS HATEFUL!!!!
Krimson - February 1, 2012
GSP is scared
Randy Marsh - February 1, 2012
he’s gonna root for Condit like he’s never rooted for anybody ever
Randy Marsh - February 1, 2012
GSP is going to wreck Diaz.
IKiIIed007 - February 1, 2012
Hes afraid
he even said he was afraid to run into diaz because he thinks he was going to fight there and then… ALL WEEK this is a scared man no matter how you look at it..
Jason Robillard - February 1, 2012
Cute..
GSP went to WWE-school and took “How to make a narrative in a fight 101”. Get ready for a post-fight hug.
Matthi - February 1, 2012
it’s times like this i miss the MostDiabolicalHater…
Victor Rodriguez - February 1, 2012
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