those are some big names. so tempting to order.
- Welterweight Championship bout: Georges St-Pierre (c) vs. Nick Diaz
- Welterweight bout: BJ Penn vs. Carlos Condit
- Heavyweight bout : Cheick Kongo vs. Matt Mitrione
- Lightweight bout: Dennis Siver vs. Sam Stout
- Heavyweight bout: Mirko Filipović vs. Roy Nelson
- Featherweight bout: George Roop vs. Hatsu Hioki
- Eliot Marshall vs. Brandon Vera
- Tyson Griffin vs. Bart Palaszewski
- Tim Credeur vs. Brad Tavares
Updated fight card...UFC putting together great fights for the fall fight cards!
Danny Downes vs. Ramsey Nijem Slated for UFC 137 http://sbn.to/qbocEh
Returning vet Jeff Curran meets Scott Jorgensen at UFC 137
http://mmajunkie.com/news/24570/retu...at-ufc-137.mma
Sam Stout withdraws from UFC 137 http://mmajunkie.com/news/25002/sam-...ie.com+Feed%29
Donald Cerrone replaces Sam Stout
http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/69...-stout-ufc-137
This will be Cerrone's 4th fight this year, and another one he has taken on short notice to replace an injured fighter. War Cowboy!!!!
Last edited by ace3g; 08-29-2011 at 09:42 PM.
Okay, since this is coming up and we've got this thing going, you need to clarify exactly what you mean by "decimating". I have to assume that by using that word that any regular, boring old sub will not qualify the sig bet.
Fans invited to Wednesday's UFC 137 press conference at Mandalay Bay Events Center
http://mmajunkie.com/news/25093/fans...ie.com+Feed%29With tickets set to go on sale this week for October's "UFC 137: St-Pierre vs. Diaz" event, UFC brass is inviting the night's main event participants to Las Vegas for a special open-to-the-public press conference.
UFC officials today announced the presser, which takes place Wednesday at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
The same venue hosts the Oct. 29 pay-per-view event, which also sees B.J. Penn (16-7-2 MMA, 12-6-2 UFC) face Carlos Condit (27-5 MMA, 4-1 UFC) in the evening's co-feature.
UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) and ex-Strikeforce champ Nick Diaz (25-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC) are both scheduled to appear at the press conference, as is UFC president Dana White.
lmao u serious? he tapped Gomi with a gogoplata off his back. Gomi was the #1 LW in the world at the time
Hey it's Dallas.. Anyone remember him??
UFC 137's Diaz no-shows Canadian presser, manager promises he'll attend Vegas'
http://mmajunkie.com/news/25110/ufc-...ie.com+Feed%29It certainly looks like Nick Diaz doesn't want to play ball.
The former Strikeforce welterweight champion and upcoming UFC le-challenger no-showed a press conference today in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he and welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre were supposed to answer questions from the media about their UFC 137 bout.
"Nick is extremely happy about the opportunity to fight GSP, but old habits die hard," Diaz manager Cesar Gracie today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
St-Pierre showed and complained that Diaz's absence was unfair because he had interrupted his training camp to attend the press event, according to a report today in the "Winnipeg Free Press."
Gracie said his fighter's absence is regrettable, but he also said Diaz will be in attendance for a press conference held Wednesday in Las Vegas.
"Nick is going to be there tomorrow, and we'll go from there," he said.
UFC 137 takes place Oct. 29 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The main card, which St-Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) vs. Diaz (25-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC) headlines, airs live on pay-per-view.
Of course, the no-show comes as little to surprise to those familiar with Diaz's relationship with the press. The former Strikeforce fighter no-showed a conference call for the first defense of his le, a rematch with former EliteXC leholder K.J. Noons.
"Nick doesn't really do the conference calls with a guy he's fighting; he just never has," Gracie then told reporters. "It's just not in his psyche. He's too busy training right now to answer any questions."
UFC president Dana White often has lamented Diaz's inability to "play the game," and during a meeting that eventually would produce a UFC contract and booking against St-Pierre, he tried to broach the topic.
But even White couldn't predict whether he'd gotten through.
"That is the million-dollar question, my friend," White said. "I sat down, and I talked to him, and we'll see how that went."
Fans are invited to Wednesday's presser, which takes place at 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. PT local time) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Diaz is a nut-case
No shock..
he hates the media no big deal
A Diaz being an asshole? I've never heard of such.
Here is the link to the presser: http://www.ufc.tv/ufc/video/ufc-137-...m-et1pm-pt/780
Live on 9/7/11 at 4pm ET/1pm PT
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12:16 p.m.
lorenzofer ta Lorenzo Fer ta
Anyone know where nick diaz is?
can also watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/ufc#p/l/ZNvFHpVXp2o
should start in a few minutes
Last edited by ace3g; 09-07-2011 at 03:04 PM.
Diaz lost his shot, Condit gets it!!!
YES, great fight too
GSP vs Condit now!!!!!
Diaz didn't show for the presser, so Dana just pulled him from the fight
Last edited by ace3g; 09-07-2011 at 03:24 PM.
lol butthurt dana white
LMAO
WTF..
Diaz should be committed to the nut-house
Nick Diaz apparently wouldn’t play the game.
After a pair of no-shows at two press conferences on consecutive days, the former Strikeforce welterweight champion has been removed from his UFC 137 showdown with reigning UFC king Georges St. Pierre. In his stead, former WEC leholder Carlos Condit will challenge St. Pierre.
“Nick Diaz has lost his opportunity at the welterweight championship, and Carlos Condit gets it,” said UFC President Dana White at a Tuesday press conference in Las Vegas, which Diaz failed to attend. “I’ve had my reservations with Nick Diaz for some time now. We haven’t heard from him. He hasn’t returned my calls. When we brought him in to sign to fight Georges, I told him that all purses he’s ever made up won’t add up to as much as he would make in this fight. But I told him I needed him to do certain things. You have to promote the fight. You have to show up for pressers. You can’t start fights at fights.”
Not surprisingly, Condit jumped at the opportunity when White called “The Natural Born Killer” to offer him a shot at the welterweight belt.
“When we called Carlos for this fight, he started crying and had to call us back 15 minutes later,” White said. “Condit deserves this shot. He’s the guy.”
Condit had originally been slated to face B.J. Penn at the Oct. 29 event. Penn is now left without an opponent, though White stated that he had a backup opponent in mind for the former two-division champion.
“I’m going to have one seriously pissed off Hawaiian I’m going to have to deal with,” said White, who declined to elaborate on his specific plans for Penn at the event.
Shortly after White informed the media that he had yet to hear back from Diaz’s trainer and manager, Cesar Gracie, the UFC box received a call from Gracie while standing at the podium.
“Cesar just said, ‘I agree with what you’re doing 100-percent. I’ve been trying to chase Nick Diaz all around town,’” White relayed.
Champ St. Pierre expressed his disbelief at the challenger’s absence, stating that, although he does not enjoy participating in press tours, he does it to honor his contract and his partners in promotion.
“I despise doing this. I don’t like the staredown, the face-to-face, the pictures, the click-click,” said St. Pierre. “I don’t like doing this, but I have to do it. It’s the contract. To promote the fight, you need three en ies: the organization and the two fighters. And one fighter didn’t do his job. If you don’t want to do it for yourself, do it for your family. It’s a little bit selfish.”
When asked if he could have taken further measures to ensure that the notoriously apathetic Diaz would in fact make it to the Las Vegas presser, White asserted that he had confirmation of the fighter’s whereabouts before he unexpectedly took flight.
“Cesar Gracie had him in his house,” said White. “Nick snuck out the back door. Nobody has been able to find him. If I had known this would happen, I never would have made this fight. We’ve spent $15,000 in just flights for Nick Diaz in the last couple days. It’s a pretty big financial blow.”
Holy .
What a ing ass pork. I seriously couldn't be happier with how this is going down. I LOVE me some Condit, and for the first time in a very long time, I'm rooting against GSP. ing boss, man.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/9/7/...erre-or-conditTeammate protocols are pretty clear in this situation so everybody knows what happening. I step out, the other coaches -- John [Danaher], Phil [Nurse] and Firas [Zahabi] -- will take care of GSP and probably [Mike] Winkeljohn and some of the other guys here will take care of Carlos. But I step out of it, so I won't be cornering either guy. They'll fight each other. Those are the new teammate protocols. We knew this would be coming -- it will probably be coming again --but this time we are very well prepared
Cesar Gracie reaction: http://siriusxmsports.posterous.com/...s-to-nick-diaz
Last edited by ace3g; 09-07-2011 at 07:04 PM.
Time to change the thread le..
Diaz is not a professional, he didn't deserve this fight anyway...
I'll be rooting for Condit..
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