Mandalay Bay will play host to UFC 143: Diaz Vs. Condit on Saturday February 4th. Georges St. Pierre was originally scheduled to defend his welterweight title against Nick Diaz but was forced to withdraw due to a knee injury. Esther Lin of MMA Fighting took some amazing shots of the weigh ins and Bloody Elbow has chosen the best of the best to showcase for you.
Carlos Condit (169 pounds) vs Nick Diaz (169 pounds)
More photos after the jump...
SBN coverage of UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit
Roy Nelson (246 pounds) vs Fabricio Werdum (246 pounds)
Josh Koscheck (170 pounds) vs Mike Pierce (170 pounds)
Renan Barao (136 pounds) vs Scott Jorgensen (135 pounds)
Ed Herman (185 pounds) vs Clifford Starks (185 pounds)
Dustin Poirier (146 pounds) vs Max Holloway (144 pounds)
Alex Caceres (136 pounds) vs Edwin Figueroa (135 pounds)
Matt Brown (171 pounds) vs Chris Cope (171 pounds)
Matthew Riddle (170 pounds) vs Henry Martinez (169 pounds)
Rafael Natal (186 pounds) vs Michael Kuiper (183 pounds)
Dan Stittgen (170 pounds) vs Stephen Thompson (170 pounds)
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Nice work
CABBAGE!!!
TorQus - February 3, 2012
also
Matt Riddle looks two weight classes heavier than Martinez!
TorQus - February 3, 2012
that is because Martinez is a lightweight
Earl Montclair - February 3, 2012
Riddle could still lose, his striking is very bad.
lolumad - February 4, 2012
His wrestling is decent
discoandherpes - February 4, 2012
Wow. Roy is in great shape.
MicahtheCynic - February 3, 2012
Man...
Get a room (I’d hit it)
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
He's definitely leaned out.
ElliotMatheny - February 4, 2012
This BE/MMA Fighting partnership is fantastic. I can’t get enough coverage. So many awesome writers under the SBN banner, then you have MMA Fighting’s E Casey Leydon and Esther Lin who are both fantastic at what they do.
Yeah, I’m a tad drunk. At least I’m a happy drunk. I live this partnership. So many great writers to read under one general roof.
Tim Bernier - February 3, 2012 via mobile
Honestly, the past couple of days have been super motivational for me
just seeing their hustle. I’m trying my best to keep pace with them.
Matthew Roth - February 3, 2012
Together
we should all live this partnership.
Brent Ducharme - February 3, 2012
But what I want to know
Is if you’re gotdarn socialist doctors can cure Brock’s butthole problems.
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Fuck Tom Brady.
He’s going to be put on his back way more than mike pierce on Sunday.
Gideon Jay - February 3, 2012
Hatriot.
Hendo_One-Shot - February 3, 2012
People who like the Patriots think Michael Cole is cool.
MicahtheCynic - February 3, 2012
The way they put Tebow in his place was pretty awesome though.
If a higher power somehow exists, it certainly doesn’t give a fuck about football.
lolumad - February 4, 2012
I agree.
I don’t believe in God, but if I did I wouldn’t be foolish enough to pretend I comprehended it. I can’t even get my mind around the scope and size of the universe or why when I walk around New York City during the Pride parade I see a bunch of my ex-girlfriends, let alone an omnipotent divine being.
discoandherpes - February 4, 2012
There is a place called West Texas
If you go you’ll know there is no God, for sure.
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
Listen, man
Who are you to presume what ‘God’ cares about? What do you know? He might love sports where people slam into each other for a minute total until the refs can stop play and give advertisers a sufficient amount of advertising time to explain that, yes, Bud is great, and if you drink our beer some fit girls will paint letters on their fit stomachs and probably, maybe, get drunk enough to go home with you?
The vanity of your post is unbelievable. Who do you think you are? Do you presume to know what God loves? Do you presume to understand that Tebow runs on grass for Mary herself?
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
The fuck does that even mean?
Put him in his place? He’s an elite athlete who believes in something, and is passionate about it. You know who else is?
Jon fucking Jones.
MicahtheCynic - February 4, 2012
Great point
halitosis - February 4, 2012 via mobile
or he doesn't like Tim Tebow
or he thinks that being a missionary trying to convert Catholics to a “better” version of Christianity isn’t really all that great.
MasonA - February 4, 2012
You wont be saying that when tb12 and the gronk light the giants up and win another superbowl this is a payback game.
mlzybaby - February 4, 2012 via mobile
Payback?
I’m sorry but my g-men aren’t losing to some scrubs after running through the toughest confrence in the league. Be ready for more tears of pain this Sunday. Giants!!!!!!!
JG87 - February 4, 2012 via mobile
Scrubs?! Haha guess you havent seen gronk or hernandez yet.
mlzybaby - February 4, 2012 via mobile
Gronk has a high ankle sprain. He'll be slower and not as effective.
Unless Belicheck works his “magic” by sneaking into the Giants’ practice session to video record their play calling signals, as he has done many times in the past, they’re going to lose.
Gideon Jay - February 4, 2012
I was wondering where I'd seen a nose like Nick Diaz's after all the scarring and smashing its taken
then it came to me. His nose especially the bridge of it, strongly resembles that of the Na’vi race from Avatar
Robust23 - February 3, 2012
HO-LY SHIT, DUDE...
Unabomberman - February 4, 2012
Everything makes sense now...
Chris Hall - February 4, 2012
Nick has some suing to get to, methinks...
Unabomberman - February 4, 2012
You know, nature, man
and whatever
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
And whatever, yes?
Unabomberman - February 4, 2012
No, but
I come to fight, you know? whatever, yes.
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Its bullshit
I come to fight not be in no Damn movies, you know. But its like whatever they put my face in it anyway. I don’t see any money from it, you all think its funny its not I’m driving a piece of Shit Honda cause I ain’t got time for nothing else. I fight I don’t even like fighting its all I know, stop laughing this ain’t funny this Shits my life and I gotta see my face in some movie I didn’t even see because nobody told me when it was out. You people go and get mad at me when I don’t see or do things but its because no one ever tells me Shit and if you really wanna know I think gsp is in on it too, you know.
JG87 - February 4, 2012 via mobile
green this shit people
Desmoglein - February 4, 2012
To think that he was so cute n innocent looking as a little kid...
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
I still hate that they edited this pick on the Primetime episodes
Chris Hall - February 4, 2012
yeah but
if it’s on primetime they don’t have complete control of the product because it goes on Fox. I’m trying to find the positives in this whole going hollywood business.
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
Yeah, I get that it had to be edited
And there are tons of positives to the going hollywood business. A major one will be seen tomorrow with the absence of the gladiator
Chris Hall - February 4, 2012
Dear Gladiator
Also excited about the prospect of never EVER having to hear “Bring the Pain” again.
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
YOU'RE FIIIIIIRRRRRREEEEEED!
MicahtheCynic - February 4, 2012
What exactly was edited in the photo?
thelastsultan - February 4, 2012
Common sense
halitosis - February 4, 2012 via mobile
Are you trying to say
that the blue guy from Avatar had his eyebrows shaved down?
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
how’s this not greened
Robust23 - February 4, 2012
Just found the best Nick quote ever:
He talks about how he got into this dangerous line of work, growing up a Van Damme and a "Rocky" fan: "Aikido and karate when I was in first grade, karate in 4th, 5th, 6th grade," he says. "And then in 7th and 8th grade, (go to the) backyard, drink a 40 and box with the Mexicans."
http://msn.foxsports.com/ufc/story/UFC-143-Nick-Diaz-searching-for-truth-behind-elusive-fighter-020312
Pillowhands - February 3, 2012
“drink a 40 and box with the Mexicans”
I love it.
Dustin Luff - February 4, 2012
That's kind of an overgeneralization.
I’m one of the Mexicans and can’t box for shit.
I demand a written apology.
Unabomberman - February 4, 2012
I figured most Mexicans had some sort of natural scrappyness to them. Similar to black guys having some sort of natural…anything, athletically.
Dustin Luff - February 4, 2012
Riddle looks huge.
J_Maddux - February 3, 2012
I have never been a bigger Matt Brown fan than I am going to be tomorrow.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Earl Montclair - February 3, 2012
MicahtheCynic - February 4, 2012
Now that is one sexy man
What?
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Ric Flair will die in a wrestling ring
RECE ROCK - February 4, 2012 via mobile
fact! tna or wwe tho? or maybe indy with his sons
Mac Marley - February 4, 2012
Damn, Riddle looks like a monster next to Martinez
Chris Hall - February 3, 2012
Matthew Riddle vs Henry Martinez
Daaaaamn the size difference
Mr.Zhang - February 4, 2012
Matt via decision. Looking at that size difference, it seems safe to say he’ll outwrestle him.
Dustin Luff - February 4, 2012
Koscheck looks like a monster next to Pierce.
castleeb - February 4, 2012
Holy SHIET
Diaz looks like he has cancer. Someone on here mentioned how his weight cut looked wrong and gotdamn you were right.
209!
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
shut the #### up, moron
Condit has finisher 39 of 40 opponents, 22 of which were Nick Diaz (or his immediate family members). No amount of AK47s can save you.
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
I appologize
because I have consumed a lot of Alberta Pure Vodka (I suspect it might not be so pure)
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Don't Apologize
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
To quote the great Nicholas Robert Diaz
It’s whatever.
jason18 - February 4, 2012
You know
I’ve man driven on like fucking highways and talked you know man but sometimes punches just come right at your Nissan but then fucking Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, you know what I mean?
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
I'm sorry, I thought I was on MMAMANIA
where my dumb vodka ideas would top the bell-curve
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
You'll get there, buddy.
Until then, you’re a reminder that I’m the BE drinking champ.
pdl - February 4, 2012
dont you tell me what you are
because 209, and a lot of finishes, and here’s a fetus.
Man, Condit hasn’t fought anyone. But Diaz, man, he has shaved-down bones in his eyebrows. How the fuck can you even compete?
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
and
he was breast fed hatred by a honey badger.
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
AND THE MILK'S GONE BAD
209
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Unabomberman - February 4, 2012
For some reason
I’d listen to the honeybadger’s pre-fight speech
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
The Honey Badger Pre-Fight Speech:
Imagine what the last wail of 50 dead babies sounds like.
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
But I HAVE read a lot of your comments
(e-mail me your authograph?)
hugs and kisses,
Me and some vodka
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Say Hello to his little friend
mannfretti - February 4, 2012
In an attempt at some kind of real 'duscussion,' I'll argue
the weigh-in pictures seem to demonstrates the natural differences between fighters in a particular weight class. I don’t presume to be a biologist, but Diaz’s bone mass appears larger, and more emaciated, when he cuts to the welterweight limit.
(please don’t ban me)
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Who do you keep responding to?
Your having a back and forth conversation…with no one.
Fedorable - February 4, 2012
Matt Brown
better win man, chris cope come on!
Kronic - February 4, 2012
Supper riddle he looks 2 weight classes aboveve
youfailme91 - February 4, 2012 via mobile
That's because he is.
Sweet Scientist - February 4, 2012
Riddle has upper body of a Middleweight and lower body of Arianny Celeste.
dancingChicken - February 4, 2012
Monsters and Mice
Dan Stittgen’s 170 lbs to Matt Riddle’s 170lbs is quite the contrast. And yes Henry Martinez isn’t too huge either, but he at least has muscles around his skeleton.
Bonerman - February 4, 2012
Separated at birth?
some schmuck in texas - February 4, 2012
separated at birth? Outside of being black and having muscles...they look nothing alike
What?
Dude…c’mon.
Fedorable - February 4, 2012
just talking about the crazy lats
and why did you post two pictures of jon jones?
some schmuck in texas - February 4, 2012
Sorry, looking again
I see that’s President Obama. Now I understand what you were getting at.
some schmuck in texas - February 4, 2012
your not funny and your a bigot fuck off
i dont like this little " oh he’s black so he must look like every other black guy" game crap. police do it and their called dicks and racists as well in my book. im just saying i dont go and say how every white fighter or any other race looks the same as well and does it really matter if i tell you im black too i mean you still look like a shitty person imo who i wouldnt give 2 fucks for
Mac Marley - February 4, 2012
and its cool though that i get warned on using the n-word even though im black its cool i understand now that on the internet you cant just go and say what you want especially the things you might be comfortable saying at home or with friends. but why doesnt that go for this ignorant ass unfunny joke that all black fighters lookalike.
Mac Marley - February 4, 2012
Once again - I was talking about the crazy lats
If it had been a greek or japanese dude I would have said the same thing.
So sorry – I see now the guys fedorable posted were Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
I may not be funny, but I’m definitely not a racist.
some schmuck in texas - February 4, 2012
lol
Sorry for that…didn’t mean for that guy to go off on you
Fedorable - February 4, 2012
I could have expressed myself more clearly.
some schmuck in texas - February 4, 2012
hewsdaddy - February 4, 2012 via mobile
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