Injured UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre talked to Jennifer Williams of The Fight Fix and made his prediction for the UFC 143 interim title fight between Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz. The winner of that fight is likely to face GSP in the late Summer or Fall in a title unification bout.
SBN coverage of UFC 143: Diaz vs. Condit
GSP likes Condit's chances in the early rounds but believes if it goes into the championship 4th and 5th rounds that Diaz will prevail. That's a big sign of respect from the champ for Diaz' vaunted conditioning.
GSP also talked about the Super Bowl and bemoaned the amount of time he has to spend hearing about American football because he trains with so many pro football players. He gloats that he plans to be driving back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas during the Super Bowl so he won't have to hear about the game.
GSP adds that he's a "nerd" and doesn't care to watch sports including Canadian football and hockey as well as American football.
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I'm not a sports fan at all, either
I guess GSP said it best “I’m more a nerd”
I DO watch the Superbowl though…it’s the only Football game, or sports match period, that I will watch.
But I’ll admit, I watch for the trailers. I know they are debuting a pretty killer TV Sport for The Avengers…so I’m stoked for that.
Chris Groves - February 4, 2012
Yeah, football is a pretty boring spectator sport tbh.
And I PLAYED football all through junior high and part of HS. But once you start watching fight sports, you realize that the coolest parts of football are the big tackles, and the few long passes/ runs you’ll see in a game. It’s so stop and go. Of all the “ball and stick” sports, I’d have to say that Tennis and basketball are my favorite to watch.
ElliotMatheny - February 4, 2012
I strongly disagree. Apart from almost breaking a window with a field goal attempt when I was 10 I’ve never as much as touched a football in my entire life (I’m Danish) but I LOVE the sport. In fact, I think it makes my top 3 (#1 MMA, #2 soccer).
Long plays are nice, but I love to see a team meticulously break down a defence, and I think three-and-outs are fantastic if they are the result of great defensive plays rather than dropped passes. As for the pace of the game, I actually think it’s paced perfectly. I need to see at least one replay of each play because there’s just so much to look for. What type of coverage is the defence showing? Are they faking a blitz? Which block made a certain run possible? In that way, long pass plays are actually far less exciting because it typically comes down to the O-line protecting the quarterback and a wide receiver getting separation from a cornerback.
Just like my love of MMA grew by leaps and bounds when I started reading BE and got a deeper appreciation of the sport, my love of football has really taken off ever since I started studying playbooks, learning about and identifying various teams’ signature plays and learning about defensive coverages and different types of blitzes.
wonderfulspam - February 4, 2012
It's not a bad sport to play,
and in some ways it’s like watching a war, watching waves crash upon eachother and each side jockeying for advantage. But it’s just too stop and go for my tastes. It’s not as bad as baseball in that regard, I suppose. I prefer simplicity though, and Football is pretty complex in many ways. Fighting is probably the simplest sport, aside from the truly individual sports like running.
ElliotMatheny - February 4, 2012
I’m with GSP on this. Absolutely no interest in team sports at all. I didn’t even know the superbowl was this weekend lol. My buddy asked me “you ready for this weekend?” and I was thinking “why, is it a holiday or something?”
BWV988 - February 4, 2012
"Fuck yeah, Diaz vs Condit is going to rock!"
Would be the appropriate response.
Chris Groves - February 4, 2012
You disgust me...
HitokiriX - February 4, 2012
What is it about football that everyone loves so much?
I feel like a lot of people are socially and culturally obligated to pretend it’s awesome, when in reality it tends to be pretty fucking boring. Occasionally a good story comes along, such as the inevitable smashing of Tim Tebow, but otherwise I’d really rather watch fighting, or even professional soccer.
Also, fantasy football is lame. Draw as many parallels as you want between it and what we do with the BE civil war and such, fantasy football will always be far worse.
lolumad - February 4, 2012
I don't get it either
I would like for someone to explain the things they like about it though. I could explain for hours why I like watching the sports I watch, but I don’t know any American football fans in real life, so maybe the ones here can explain its appeal.
mollcutpurse - February 4, 2012
A lot of people that never played Football don't get it
which is not far from the reason Soccer is popular outside of the U.S. Of course we play soccer here, but usually switch to Football once we reach Junior High. If you understand the sport it is exciting. I understand MMA, Football, Boxing, Hockey, Baseball, Tennis, Billiards, Basketball, but find sports that I never competed in, such as Golf, Soccer, Real Wrestling and Nascar to be boring. I think it makes sense.
Fatty Fish Belly - February 4, 2012
I feel the same about handball
what a goofy sport
mollcutpurse - February 4, 2012
I feel the same about curling
which i still dont believe that actually had become a sport LOL
szanpan - February 4, 2012
I dont do fantasy
that’s gay to me. But football is awesome. How could you rather watch soccer than football? That’s just ridiculous. I love playing football, I love watching football it’s just always been a part of my life ever since I can remember. I don’t pretend to like it, i genuinely love it.
How could you not like watching for a chance to see this
Rather than this:
HitokiriX - February 4, 2012
You like it because you've been steeped in football media ever since you were young.
Introduce it to a foreigner who hasn’t seen it before, and they’ll probably be bored to tears.
lolumad - February 4, 2012
like me
LOL
I m rooting for the good old soccer here in Europe :)
szanpan - February 4, 2012
it's the same with soccer in other countries
HitokiriX - February 4, 2012
not exactly
most people can watch soccer and understand what’s happening even if they don’t intuitively grasp the “subtleties” of simple things like the offside rule, or why something is considered a foul. but American football’s rules are something you legitimately have to learn before you can comprehend anything besides “they want to cross the field and put the ball in that big rectangle.”
football = “I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT”
soccer = “this is boring herpderp”
mollcutpurse - February 4, 2012
The hightlights are awesome
but football seems like a sport dedicated to ad time. Play for two minutes and then commercials for two minutes while the audience discuses what the teams should do, watching, of course, This Bud’s For You.
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
I remember watching the world cup in a room full of Italians, that was both fast-paced, and an amazing time. Beats the hell out of any super bowl party I’ve ever attended.
lolumad - February 4, 2012
does italian food also beat hot wings & american beer?
or whatever it is people consume at super bowl parties
mollcutpurse - February 4, 2012
you see ads
at half time, time outs and turnovers… or if they’re reviewing a play
HitokiriX - February 4, 2012
And on the field and bleechers
and replay videos.
I’ve only been able to sit thru a few football games. There were a few awesome plays and a lot of standing around.
Erasedhead - February 4, 2012
Soccer is the shit
SSreporters - February 4, 2012
A steaming pile of it, a bunch of times. Yes.
Personally, I’m more of a boxing and MMA fan. Team sports have rarely engaged me, especially the National Football (soccer) Team which I’m so very annoyed by almaost every time.
Unabomberman - February 4, 2012
I loved Mexico's team back at the 94 World Cup
So awesome.
wonderfulspam - February 4, 2012
Indoor soccer is more marketable to an American audience IMO
Less people on the field, smaller surface area, more scoring, faster and more intense footwork. It doesn’t even have to be indoor, but straight futbol is too methodical and low- scoring to succeed in the U.S.
ElliotMatheny - February 4, 2012
oh reggie
you got done blown up.
Cory Braiterman - February 4, 2012
...
Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean that other people who do only like it to fit in. Haven’t you learned anything as an MMA fan? How many people tell you that MMA is boring?
For me, my love of team sports has to do more with rooting for my favorite teams. Football is way more interesting when you have a vested interest.
Go G-Men.
Benny Blanco from the BriX - February 4, 2012
I disgust you?
Because I’m not a fan of team sports? lol think you need to calm down son.
I was a baseball fan… when I was a kid, and a football fan… when I was a kid. But now that I’ve grown up I don’t feel the tribalistic impulse to feel like part of a team any more.
No reason to get your panties in a bunch, I’m not knocking team sports, I’m the only guy I know around my age that isn’t into team sports. I know I’m an outlier, but it is what it is. Absolutely no interest for me.
BWV988 - February 4, 2012
Some people just don't think enough before they speak, or write.
That pretty much should tell you what you need to know. And also, it’s pretty damn contradictory considering he’s on BECW.
Unabomberman - February 4, 2012
read below...
and I have no idea what you’re talking about
HitokiriX - February 4, 2012
I think you need to not take what I said seriously
it was all in jest
HitokiriX - February 4, 2012
I could have swore GSP was a huge Montreal Candadiens fan.
exsanguinator - February 4, 2012
Always amazes me how many people do not care for sports in general. Then again they don’t have much to give to society. But this is ’MURICA!!!!
Afrotikiman - February 4, 2012 via mobile
Damn, GSP just exposed himself.
C.A.M. - February 4, 2012
jennifer williams knows nothing about the MMA
lol
thuglife - February 4, 2012
huge diaz fan
bigger realist.
when GSP recovers he will definitely shut down the division again.
georges’ mma iq is off the roof, nobody could match his strategies and athleticism and he will always win that way.
elmojo - February 4, 2012
GSP would fail the Voight-Kampff test
it’s possible that he’s just a genuinely nice guy, but something about his robotic and calculated methodology makes me uneasy. he never gets angry, he’s always polite, but as a human being he seems extraordinarily difficult to connect or identify with. if it weren’t for the UFC, I think he might be picking up men at bars and luring them back to his private octagon where he would proceed to just pick them apart for 300 rounds.
Diaz is certainly an unusual fellow as well, but he’s strange in a painfully human way that is pretty easy to be sympathetic to. but I think I understand why he considers GSP so fake/crazy.
mollcutpurse - February 4, 2012
The media loves displaying Diaz as a rebel
but he has mentioned several times that he highly enjoying mountain biking and races. I bet he’s a regular guy outside of the circus.
Fatty Fish Belly - February 4, 2012
Rec’d for Bladerunner…
thirdparty - February 4, 2012
Yes i agree GSP does its very best so that he can be perfect
and i think he is a very very perfectionist guy on every level in life. I think it was the first ever UFC primetime which was about 3 people instead of 2. GSP is trying hard now, for people to see his more layers or stuff so that people could count him also as a human being not a machine in my opinion and he does his stuff well, because he is very heavily promoted as well in this process of the Diaz-Condit fight. And yes me too i would imagine that scenario which you say about him LOL.
szanpan - February 4, 2012
I think alot of it is the language barrier.
Georges has pretty good English, but it’s definitely a second language for him. He’s also a very professional guy. I don’t think that any of those things make him a sociopath.
ElliotMatheny - February 4, 2012
Yes, a lot of it comes from the language barrier, he definitely sounds a lot more natural in french.
Sweet Scientist - February 4, 2012
And it's quite normal.
It’s tough as fuck to come off natural when you gotta mentally translate everything you want to say before saying it.
Sweet Scientist - February 4, 2012
maybe
not everyone can be as adorable as JDS in a second language.
mollcutpurse - February 4, 2012
As a self-proclaimed athlete and nerd who dislikes mainstream sports, but loves analyzing the fight game, I can identify with GSP a bit.
Not a fan of the deep v-necks though.
lolumad - February 4, 2012
LOL
..
szanpan - February 4, 2012
What is GSP smoking?
I can’t believe he said he likes being the underdog when he hasn’t been an underdog for almost five years.
Marquis Brown - February 4, 2012
I don't watch many other sports either...
GSP is ME
ElliotMatheny - February 4, 2012
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Sugel Mendoza - February 4, 2012
Bonerman
I could never sit through a basketball game. There is absolutely nothing about that sport that interests me one bit. I would rather watch evangelistic television and I am an Atheist.
Bonerman - February 4, 2012
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