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UFC 143: Diaz vs Conduit
Date: February 4, 2012
Venue: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV

Promotional
Official UFC 143 Website
UFC Primetime: Diaz vs Conduit Episode 1 Part 1
UFC Primetime: Diaz vs Conduit Episode 1 Part 2
UFC Primetime: Diaz vs Conduit Episode 2
UFC Primetime: Diaz vs Conduit Episode 3
I don't think Georges is hurt, I think he's scared.
Sherdog's UFC 143 Main Card Preview
Sherdog's Pro's Pics for Diaz vs Condit

Why should you tune into the fights?
Nick Diaz and Carlos Conduit are fighting for the interim UFC welterweight championship.

How did we end up with this main event?
Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz and UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre were scheduled to fight on October 29th, 2011 at UFC 137. UFC President Dana "Fucking" White removed Nick Diaz from the main event of UFC 137 for missing some promotional obligations. However, there was some speculation that GSP pressured Dana White into removing Diaz from the card. Carlos Conduit was eventually gifted the title shot in place of Nick Diaz. GSP ends up pulling out of the fight with Conduit with a mysterious injury. Good friends Nick Diaz and BJ Penn are forced to fight each other in the main event spot to save UFC 137. Nick Diaz proceeds to retire MMA Legend BJ Penn with his patented Stockton slap and following the fight calls out Georges St. Pierre. GSP reluctantly accepts Diaz's challenge and once again they were set to face each other for the UFC championship. The fight was supposed to take place at this card, but GSP pulled out of the fight with an injury again.

WEIGH-INS LIVE at 7PM ET on 02-03-2012

MAIN CARD:
Live on PPV - Main Card Starts at 10PM ET
Interim Welterweight Championship bout: Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Conduit
Heavyweight bout: Roy Nelson vs. Fabricio Werdum
Welterweight bout: Josh Koscheck vs. Mike Pierce
Bantamweight bout: Renan Barão vs. Scott Jorgensen
Middleweight bout: Ed Herman vs. Clifford Starks

Preliminary card (FX)
Live on FX at 8 PM ET - Check your local cable provider
Featherweight bout: Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway
Welterweight bout: Matthew Riddle vs. Jorge Lopez
Bantamweight bout: Alex Caceres vs. Edwin Figueroa
Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Chris Cope

Preliminary card (Facebook) - WHO CARES
Welterweight bout: Dan Stittgen vs. Stephen Thompson
Middleweight bout: Rafael Natal vs. Michael Kuiper


GAMBLING ODDS
Ed Herman (-300) vs. Clifford Starks (+230)
Renan Barao (-225) vs. Scott Jorgensen (+175)
Josh Koscheck (-265) vs. Mike Pierce (+205)
Fabricio Werdum (-150) vs. Roy Nelson (+120)
Nick Diaz (-240) vs. Carlos Condit (+190)

Rafael Natal (-185) vs. Michael Kuiper (+150)
Stephen Thompson (-275) vs. Dan Stittgen (+215)
Matt Riddle (-475) vs. Henry Martinez (+325)
Matt Brown (-300) vs. Chris Cope (+230)
Dustin Poirier (-500) vs. Max Holloway (+350)
Alex Caceres (+105) vs. Edwin Figueroa (-135)

WHY YOU DUCKING GEORGES?

 

[AiTM]

Little early Yaco

 

[yacobod]

card is 1 week away. i'm good.

 

[Plywood]

The heel we deserve.

 

[dream]

oh man I can't wait for Dan Stittgen vs. Stephen Thompson and Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway

 

[Plywood]

oh man I can't wait for Dan Stittgen vs. Stephen Thompson and Dustin Poirier vs. Max Holloway

No love for Matt Brown and Chris Cope? I see how you operate.

 

[AiTM]

Yaco just wants a thread in which he can dream a full week before his 209-era dreams are crushed.

The under hyped aspect of this card is we are going to find out if the HW division gets a new contender to the throne. The first and only man to tap out the former GOAT Fedor, and who made the man of the hour overeem look bad.(albeit in a shitty showing himself)

 

[dream]

The only good Cope is Kit Cope.

 

[bone_and_sinew]

The people's championship is on the line.

Whoever wins, the fans wins too since both of these men are warriors. Well except for GSP fans. The only thing they get is to find out is which of these two warriors will be beat the hell out him. From one hospital trip to another for old Georgie boy.

 

[dream]

I thought Condit was getting thrown to the wolves when they announced his fight with GSP because I think this kid could be the future of 170 but 5 rounds of dry humping would probably demoralize him to the point where he'd never reach his full potential.

But a win over Nick Diaz, who even the most ardent GSP fans have to admit is one of the top fighters in the world, could harden him and give him enough confidence to beat the hell out of Rush.

 

[Heel]

yacobud is the best. i don't care if they think our threads are barbaric and human cockfighting. we will never go mainstream with a sticky thread and will be glad when we slip into a second dark age to escape the fickle neogaf fanbase. that is all.

 

[TheKaeptain]

1st: A fight that decides which two people get their asses kicked by the champ.


2nd: We will get sent to communities before we get sticked.

 

[Chamber]

smh...

 

[TheKaeptain]

Let's be real here. GSP was caught on tape after Diaz slapped BJ saying "Boss, I want to beat that punk up. I want to fight Diaz!" and you think he is afraid of him?

 

[dream]

I think Rush has complete confidence in his ability to decision any 170 lb fighter in the world.

 

[yacobod]

let's be real here. i make an OT that is informative, has all the pertinent information, and is relatively troll free, but the GSP white knights still can't handle it.

 

[TheKaeptain]

let's be real here. i make an OT that is informative, has all the pertinent information, and is relatively troll free, but the GSP white knights still can't handle it.

How did we end up with this main event?
Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz and UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre were scheduled to fight on October 29th, 2011 at UFC 137. UFC President Dana "Fucking" White removed Nick Diaz from the main event of UFC 137 for missing some promotional obligations. However, there was some speculation that GSP pressured Dana White into removing Diaz from the card. Carlos Conduit was eventually gifted the title shot in place of Nick Diaz. GSP ends up pulling out of the fight with Conduit with a mysterious injury. Good friends Nick Diaz and BJ Penn are forced to fight each other in the main event spot to save UFC 137. Nick Diaz proceeds to retire MMA Legend BJ Penn with his patented Stockton slap and following the fight calls out Georges St. Pierre. GSP reluctantly accepts Diaz's challenge and once again they were set to face each other for the UFC championship. The fight was supposed to take place at this card, but GSP pulled out of the fight with an injury again.

Yeah right

 

[Chamber]

let's be real here. i make an OT that is informative, has all the pertinent information, and is relatively troll free, but the GSP white knights still can't handle it.

Not even worth a Denzel reaction gif.

 

[yacobod]

Did you make it out to the UC tonight?

 

[Heel]

tell us about your ufc experience, yaco.

 

[bone_and_sinew]

Let's be real here. GSP was caught on tape after Diaz slapped BJ saying "Boss, I want to beat that punk up. I want to fight Diaz!" and you think he is afraid of him?

GSP wanting to actually scrap with Diaz is exactly why he'll lose. Playing right into Diaz's hands. He can definitely beat Diaz if he just wrestles him but trying to outscrap him? Not a good idea.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

this PPV should be subtitled "NO EMPLOYABLE SKILLS"

 

[Heel]

i think nick would put up just enough of a fight to activate gsp's wounded animal instincts, forcing him to escape his mma boredom and lash out in a way we haven't seen in years.

 

[dream]

The last time Rush lashed out, he ended up seeing "2 BJ Penn."

 

[yacobod]

tell us about your ufc experience, yaco.

I sat next to two of the fattest women in the audience. When the event went to the main televised portion live on FOX, they sang along with "It's time to end this suffering." The entire song, it was like I was watching the downfall of western civilization in person. It was quite horrifying.

Like I mentioned in the previous thread, Brittany is quite stunning in person. It's worth repeating, but her ass looked great. TBC looked quite yummy as well. Arianny is a distant third compared to the other babes, her body is pedestrian by comparison.

It seemed like the crowd ended up boo-ing the last 3 fights on the televised portion of the card. I'm sure Dana is going to be pissed again and not come back to Chicago for another 4 or 5 years. I ended up getting to the venue really late because my wife was on call today, so I missed most of the undercard.

JBJ was generating a ton of heat by fucking with the audience during and between matches.

 

[TheKaeptain]

The last time Rush lashed out, he ended up beating up BJ Penn so bad that his brother feared for his life.

Fixed for the fucking truth. GSP knows he has been fighting nothing but dudes lower than him since then.

 

[bone_and_sinew]

I'd love to go to a UFC card. We haven't had one here in 9 years (UFC 42). Closest we got since was Ortiz-Shamrock 3 and Evans vs Salmon five years ago but that was a county over.

All we get is Bellator and Bad MMA cards from Glen Rice's promotion. The last major card we got was Strikeforce:Miami a couple years ago and while Nick Diaz was on it, so was Bobby Trashley and Herschel Walker. Fuck paying for that.

 

[Vivalaraza]

Just watched the second Primetime episode. Already hyping Diaz vs GSP which seems quite disrespectful to Conduit.

Diaz has got this though.

 

[Chamber]

Did you make it out to the UC tonight?

Wasn't too bad actually.

And her name is Brittney, god dammit. Not Brittany or Britney. Brittney.

 

[yacobod]

Nick has the best combination of cardio, bjj, and striking GSP has ever faced. He's dangerous standing up and off his back. It's an intriguing matchup wherever the fight goes. And I think Nick will be in his head, so GSP may open up in the fight for the first time since Serra knocked him out.

It's best potential match-up at 170#.

 

[Plywood]

Wasn't too bad actually.

And her name is Brittney, god dammit. Not Brittany or Britney. Brittney.

Brittknee?

 

[yacobod]

Wasn't too bad actually.

where did you sit?

should have sent me a PM, could've grabbed a beer, and I would've shot in for a takedown when you least suspected it.

 

[dream]

Brittknee?

Only if you're Cowboy Cerrone.

 

[Chamber]

Brittknee?

Only if you're Cowboy Cerrone.

Keep it up. I'm one step away from a heel turn on MMA-GAF.

Yaco, I was in section 112. Next time UFC is in Chicago, 5 years from now, I'll show you the darkness inside of me.

 

[yacobod]

i was in section 110. almost had an inadvertent neogaf meet up.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Yaco if I ever met you I am going to suplex you three times and cut a promo afterwards.

 

[yacobod]

Yaco if I ever met you I am going to suplex you three times and cut a promo afterwards.

I'm ok with that as long as you don't go home and kill your wife and kids, and then commit suicide.

 

[Plywood]

I'm ok with that as long as you don't go home and kill your wife and kids, and then commit suicide.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Sorry no wife to murder...

 

[uneilath]

GSP is a pimp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_GLj7phZQY

 

[Buckethead]

GSP started typing a reply to all the hateful trolling but he couldn't finish it...

 

[Fersis]

War Diaz for sure.
I cant see anyone beating Nick and Nate these days.

 

[Maklershed]

Mah boys Nick Diaz and Scotty Jorgensen got this on lock!

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I'm ok with that as long as you don't go home and kill your wife and kids, and then commit suicide.

 

[parrotbeak]

It's still the weekend, right? Am I late for work?

 

[The Hermit]

GSP started typing a reply to all the hateful trolling but he couldn't finish it...

Btw, I hope this is a *bit* more exciting than yesterday...

 

[alr1ght]

GSP has a demon in his head. People has no idea how dark in his head he is sometime

 

[TheKaeptain]

"Put Diaz and GSP in a dark alley and see who comes out"


Probably the guy that can slam the other person head first into the concrete. Just saying.

 

[Chamber]

Gimme a break. That joke has been posted a million times and still isn't funny in the slightest.

 

[TheNatural]

Interim titles are such shit. If only because Bruce Buffer also likes to recognize them in the announcements when fighters are introduced.

"and the FORMER INTERIM HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION ..."

Shut the fuck up, it's meaningless.