Carlos Condit okay with fighting Nick Diaz again?just not until 2013
It looks like Carlos Condit will indeed twiddle his thumbs for nine months while waiting for welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre to fully recover from knee surgery instead of taking to the Octagon again, risking the interim belt and title-shot he earned by beating Nick Diaz by way of a controversial decision this past weekend [...]
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A first rate douchebag. Go back to stockton, get a crack pipe and smoke your life away, you fucking wanksta.
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Read MoreUFC 143 Results: Petulant Nick Diaz says “I don’t need this s***”, retires from MMA after loss to Carlos Condit
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
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After losing a decision to Carlos Condit at UFC 143, Nick Diaz had no time for self reflection. He didn’t believe he lost the fight, he didn’t believe he did anything wrong in moving forward the whole fight, while failing to produce enough offense to actually win enough rounds. No, Carlos Condit ran from him. He ran, and he played a game that Nick Diaz doesn’t want to play.
So Nick Diaz quit.
In the center of the Octagon, Diaz decided once again that it wasn’t his fault. The game once again conspired against him, and Carlos Condit’s hand being raised was the last straw, so he decided he was finished with mixed martial arts.
“I’m not gonna accept the fact that this is a loss,” Diaz told Joe Rogan after the decision was announced. “I’ve lost fights before, where… I’m not gonna accept that either, that ain’t right. I pushed him back the whole fight. I walked him down, I got the takedown. I’m the guy who won on top. Had I thought I wasn’t ahead I probably should have finished that armlock. Carlos is a great guy, I’m happy for him and his family. I think I’m done with this MMA. It’s been great out here; I’ve had a good career, you guys have paid me way too much, but I don’t think I’m going to get enough to keep going in this. It’s been a good time. Cesar Gracie jiu jitsu. Good job Carlos.”
Rogan pressed Diaz as to whether he was truly thinking about retiring, and Diaz unloaded with one of the more petulant post-fight speeches delivered in a loss for a fighter in the UFC.
“I don’t need this shit,” he said. “I pushed this guy back the whole time, he ran from me the whole fight… I landed the harder shots, he ran the whole time and kicked me in my leg with little baby leg kicks the whole fight. So, that was the way they understand how to win in here, and I don’t want to play this game no more. I’ll help out my team and my brother and everybody else, but I’m out of this shit.”
Penick’s Analysis: That’s the hero to a large segment of the fanbase in this situation. The child who should be allowed to skip out on the responsibilities of being a professional fighter because he’s “different” from everyone else in the game. The fighter who shouldn’t have to do stupid things like actually land effective strikes and accumulate offense throughout a fight because he’s “pushing a guy back.”
Diaz is immensely entertaining to watch more often than not, but his post-fight speech here had him coming off as a petulant, whiny little boy who couldn’t handle the fact that something didn’t go his way. If he’s truly ready to retire off of that he can take his ball and go home.
What he should do is figure out why Condit was able to be effective in neutralizing his attack, causing him to land just over a third the amount of strikes he did against B.J. Penn in a three round fight. He should figure out why he wasn’t able to do to Condit what he was able to do to several other recent opponents. And the answer isn’t “because Condit ran away.” Condit circled away from attacks, and then came back at Diaz with significant offense of his own.
No one wants to see Nick Diaz retire, and yes, a Diaz-GSP fight may have been more interesting to more people – not to mention an easier sell for the UFC – but Diaz didn’t win that fight on Saturday night. He didn’t. He wasn’t effective despite “pushing Condit back,” whereas Condit was. That’s what it comes down to. Condit was able to fight his fight, and in the process he didn’t allow Diaz to do the same.
[Nick Diaz art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]
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Read MoreUFC 143
This is not a Diaz excuse/Condit hating thread. Instead, it will focus on the other things that happened last night.
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Read MoreUFC 143 Prelim Results: Matt Brown stops Chris Cope in the second round
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
After losing four of five fights into Saturday’s UFC 143 event, Matt Brown was in need of a big performance against Chris Cope, and that’s just what he delivered.
Brown won the first round with his grappling and better striking, and opened up further in the second round. He rocked Cope with an overhand right, then dropped him with a left hook before finishing him off on the ground.
The win was just his second in the last two+ years, but it was an important one to keep his spot on the UFC’s roster. For Cope, he’s now been knocked out in consecutive fights after a decision win in his UFC debut last June.
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Read MoreMMAjunkie.com Radio (1 a.m. ET): Post-UFC 143 show with Miesha Tate, Tom Atencio
MMAjunkie.com Radio goes “prime time” following the conclusion of tonight’s UFC 143 event.
Strikeforce champion Miesha Tate and Affliction executive Tom Atencio are in studio, and a few UFC 143 winners may join the program as well.
MMAjunkie.com Radio airs tonight from 1-3 a.m. ET (10 p.m. to midnight PT) live from Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Listen to and watch a video stream of the two-hour show at www.mmajunkie.com/radio.
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Read MoreUFC 143: Yahoo! Sports and Heavy present Fight Day Live
Fight Day Live is coming back at you this Saturday for another star studded show from the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas for UFC 143: Condit vs. Diaz. Hosts Dave Farra and Megan Olivi will prepare you for all the fighting action on Saturday and the expert panel of Matt Brown, John Morgan and Larry Pepe will break down the pay per view card and give their opinion on who will take home the win.
Also slated for Fight Day Live are two interview, live on set. The first is with the number one contender to the women’s 135-pound belt, “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey. Rousey is a human soundbite, so you won’t want to miss that one. And also on set is crowd favorite Clay “The Carpenter” Guida. Main event fighter Carlos Condit will also be featured in an exclusive one-on-one interview. Be sure and tune into Fight Day Live at 6 p.m. ET/ 3 p.m. PT.
Want to see Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit battle it out live at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada? Of course you do. Well, your chance at being a part of all the UFC fighting action is only a couple of clicks away.
Log onto HeavyMMA’s Facebook page. From there, you must “like” the page and leave a comment about how much you’d love to go to the show. The folks at will Heavy conduct a random drawing and the lucky winner will receive two tickets to the big fight card on Feb. 4.
It’s that easy! So head over to HeavyMMA’s Facebook page now and good luck.
You can watch UFC 143 right here on Yahoo! Sports
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Read MoreStrikeforce “Tate vs. Rousey” main card, preliminary card bout order set
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
The fight order for next month’s Strikeforce “Tate vs. Rousey” event in Columbus, Ohio, is now set, and five fights will air live on Showtime on March 3. The four-fight preliminary card will air live on Showtime Extreme. The full lineup is below:
Main Card (Showtime)
* Miesha Tate vs. Ronda Rousey (Women’s Bantamweight Championship)
* Mike Kyle vs. Gegard Mousasi
* K.J. Noons vs. Josh Thomson
* Paul Daley vs. Kazuo Misaki
* Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. Derek Brunson
Preliminary Card (Showtime Extreme)
* Alexis Davis vs. Sarah Kaufman
* Caros Fodor vs. Pat Healy
* Lumumba Sayers vs. Scott Smith
* Conor Heun vs. Ryan Couture
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Read MoreFTC Closes Investigation Into UFC Purchase of Strikeforce
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has closed its investigation into whether the UFC violated federal monopoly laws with its purchase of Strikeforce after determining that “no further action is warranted” at this time.
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Read MoreWith UFC on Fox 2 on deck, UFC on Fox 3 taking shape on same night as proposed Floyd Mayweather fight
The Fox/UFC deal is moving ahead full bore.
Heavy promotion for this weekend’s second network TV card is underway, a cool new commercial with Jon Jones debuted over the weekend and last night, Dana White confirmed fights for the next MMA appearance on Fox.
That May date is interesting because it’s the same night Floyd Mayweather is planning on fighting on pay-per-view in Las Vegas.
Mayweather got out of his 90-day jail sentence by saying he had a contracted fight for May 5. He has to fight that night or he violates the terms of his agreement. Mayweather is now due to check into the Clark County Detention Center on June 1.
Before anyone starts asking why the UFC is competing with a huge boxing PPV, the MMA card starts much earlier and ends before the Mayweather tilt would begin at roughly 11:30 p.m. ET. It serves as a great fight night for combat sports fans.
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From a contender standpoint Diaz, is an obvious choice. From a promotional standpoint, he presents a challenge. He’s nowhere near as truculant as his brother Nick, but it’s been established Nate isn’t exactly fond doing tons of media work either. It should be interesting to follow how the 26-year-old handles some of the extra duties that come with fighting on network television.
The UFC’s recent visits to the Garden State were at The Prudential Center. It appears nothing is currently scheduled at “The Rock” on on that Saturday night. It is a busy week though with Bruce Springsteen playing the arena on Tuesday and Friday night nouses The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The card will also include the UFC mini-tournament in the new 125-pound weight class. John Dodson will face Darren Uyenoyama.
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Read MoreUFC 143 preview: Against Nick Diaz, Carlos Condit looks for upset in interim-title fight
Nowadays, Nick Diaz’s plan of attack isn’t just strategy – it’s philosophy.
Fans can pretty much bet that he’ll walk down his opponent and throw punches until he buckles under the pressure. That’s real fighting, the way he sees it, and though the variables may change inside the cage, his approach is the same.
Carlos Condit is next in line to accept the Diaz challenge. Will he be able withstand the onslaught?
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