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GSP is out of his fight with Carlos Condit for UFC 137. Was really looking forward to that, but now Nick Diaz – BJ Penn is the title fight
GSP is out of his fight with Carlos Condit for UFC 137. Was really looking forward to that, but now Nick Diaz – BJ Penn is the title fight.
(“I am not impressed with the UFC’s injured champions statistics.”)
Add Georges St-Pierre to the list of UFC champions who have been sidelined by injury in the past year.
According to a tweet by UFC president Dana White, the 30-year-old French Canadian has been forced out of his scheduled UFC 137 title defense against Carlos Condit.
With the injury, St-Pierre brings the UFC’s injured champions list from the past year to 100 percent. Each of the promotion’s title holders from bantamweight up to middleweight has been on the DL list in the past 365 days.
Check out the injury curse list as it stands today after the jump.
(“I am not impressed with the UFC’s injured champions statistics.”)
Add Georges St-Pierre to the list of UFC champions who have been sidelined by injury in the past year.
According to a tweet by UFC president Dana White, the 30-year-old French Canadian has been forced out of his scheduled UFC 137 title defense against Carlos Condit.
With the injury, St-Pierre brings the UFC’s injured champions list from the past year to 100 percent. Each of the promotion’s title holders from bantamweight up to middleweight has been on the DL list in the past 365 days.
Check out the injury curse list as it stands today below:
Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz: Currently rehabbing a broken hand that required surgery following his main event win over Demetrious Johnson at UFC Live: Cruz vs. Johnson on October 1.
Featherweight champion Jose Aldo: “Scarface” suffered a training injury to his back that forced him out of a planned UFC 125 title defense against Josh Grispi last November.
Lightweight champion Frankie Edgar: The Toms River New Jersey native broke two ribs while training for his planned UFC 130 bout with Gray Maynard in May and the fight had to be rescheduled for six months later at UFC 136.
Welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre: St-Perre injured his knee training for his upcoming UFC 137 bout with Carlos Condit and bowed out of the card today.
Middleweight champion Anderson Silva: Silva injured his shoulder while training for his UFC 134 bout with Yushin Okami, and although he still fought with the handicap, he is now on the shelf until early to mid 2012.
Light heavyweight champion Jon Jones: Bones injured a ligament in is hand and was forced to pull out of a planned UFC 133 pairing with former teammate Rashad Evans this past August. A swift recovery saw Jones take on Quinton “Rampage” Jackson one month later at UFC 135 in September.
Heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez: Velasquez injured his shoulder in his UFC 121 title win over Brock Lesnar last October. He has not fought since and underwent rotator cuff surgery in January. He is scheduled to face Junior dos Santos at UFC on Fox: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos on November 12.
Georges St-Pierre might want to re-examine his choice of training partners for his upcoming UFC 137 bout with Carlos Condit on October 29. You would think he would be picking the brain of his friend and teammate Rory MacDonald, who was seven seconds away from upsetting the former WEC welterweight champ at UFC 115 before getting TKO’d by “The Natural Born Killer.” Instead, “Rush” is thinking outside the box and has brought in Dan Hardy, who hasn’t won a fight since 2009, to help him prepare for the only guy to have knocked “The Outlaw” out. Makes sense, right?
Georges St-Pierre might want to re-examine his choice of training partners for his upcoming UFC 137 bout with Carlos Condit on October 29. You would think he would be picking the brain of his friend and teammate Rory MacDonald, who was seven seconds away from upsetting the former WEC welterweight champ at UFC 115 before getting TKO’d by “The Natural Born Killer.” Instead, “Rush” is thinking outside the box and has brought in Dan Hardy, who hasn’t won a fight since 2009, to help him prepare for the only guy to have knocked “The Outlaw” out. Makes sense, right?
(“Don’t do this, Georges.”)
(“Or this, Georges.”)
(“But if you do, make sure you don’t do this, Georges.”)
Maybe he’s using some kind of new age reverse psychology or maybe the concept of employing mind games (like when Hardy went to train with Matt Serra for his UFC 111 bout with St-Pierre) is somehow lost in translation with the UFC welterweight champ. Whatever the reason for bringing him into his camp, St-Pierre seems to think it will help, so who are we to judge? We hear Jon Jones is bringing in Brandon Vera to help him get ready for Rashad.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/OfficialGSP)
You have to give Georges St-Pierre credit. The dude is always raising the bar with new and totally different training regimens like gymnastics and Olympic weight lifting to ensure that he doesn’t get stagnant.
In this latest video uploaded by the UFC welterweight champ, St-Pierre is humbled in the 100 metre dash (remember, he’s Canadian) by training partners Francois Carmont, who will make his UFC debut opposite Chris Camozzi at UFC 137 and prospect Alex Garcia. Coming in dead last, “Rush” takes his loss to “Limitless” and “The Dominican Nightmare” and a pair of unnamed racers in stride.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/OfficialGSP)
You have to give Georges St-Pierre credit. The dude is always raising the bar with new and totally different training regimens like gymnastics and Olympic weight lifting to ensure that he doesn’t get stagnant.
In this latest video uploaded by the UFC welterweight champ, St-Pierre is humbled in the 100 metre dash (remember, he’s Canadian) by training partners Francois Carmont, who will make his UFC debut opposite Chris Camozzi at UFC 137 and prospect Alex Garcia. Coming in dead last, “Rush” takes his loss to “Limitless” and “The Dominican Nightmare” and a pair of unnamed racers in stride.
Don’t worry, you’ll get ‘em on the kayak course, or the breakdancing floor, George.
First shit was a fantasy, then shit got real, then shit got crazy, and then shit got interesting…
In a positively shocking turn of events that no one could have seen coming, Dana White today announced via Twitter that Nick Diaz had been re-booked for a bout at UFC 137 — against BJ Penn.
With a simple swap of opponents, White deftly solved the headaches he had with Diaz and the two co-main events at UFC 137 without calling in a fighter on short notice, and simultaneously scored a huge amount of free publicity for the fight (Ed. note: Oh, the ironing.)
On top of that, White also managed to deal a pretty stiff blow to Diaz, without looking like a bad guy in the process. Diaz now finds himself without a Strikeforce title or a fight for the UFC title, with fans jeering his own catchphrase back at him, facing a very tough veteran with a broad skill set that could very well beat him at his own game.
Ok, Nation: it’s going down. Who ya got?
[RX]
First shit was a fantasy, then shit got real, then shit got crazy, and then shit got interesting…
In a positively shocking turn of events that no one could have seen coming, Dana White today announced via Twitter that Nick Diaz had been re-booked for a bout at UFC 137 — against BJ Penn.
With a simple swap of opponents, White deftly solved the headaches he had with Diaz and the two co-main events at UFC 137 without calling in a fighter on short notice, and simultaneously scored a huge amount of free publicity for the fight (Ed. note: Oh, the ironing.)
On top of that, White also managed to deal a pretty stiff blow to Diaz, without looking like a bad guy in the process. Diaz now finds himself without a Strikeforce title or a fight for the UFC title, with fans jeering his own catchphrase back at him, facing a very tough veteran with a broad skill set that could very well beat him at his own game.
Ok, Nation: it’s going down. Who ya got?
[RX]
Diaz wasn’t born with enough middle fingers.
The story of the week, by all rights, should have been that the UFC triumphed again and put together a huge heavyweight fight at the end of the year … until Nick Diaz wigged out and went AWOL, missing two beauty pageants press conferences and losing his shot at GSP’s title and all the riches that would follow. Now every MMA site on the web has three stories about the man from the 209, and we won’t start talking about Lesnar-Overeem until mid-September at the earliest.
Since we’re all speculating, CagePotato thought we would pass on this delicious rumor: Nick Diaz will still be competing at UFC 137, against BJ Penn.
Dana White told MMAJunkie yesterday that he was working on finding an opponent to replace Carlos Condit, and he obviously had someone in mind, saying “if I told you what I want to do with that fight you guys would flip out, so we’ll see what happens.”
Diaz wasn’t born with enough middle fingers.
The story of the week, by all rights, should have been that the UFC triumphed again and put together a huge heavyweight fight at the end of the year … until Nick Diaz wigged out and went AWOL, missing two beauty pageants press conferences and losing his shot at GSP’s title and all the riches that would follow. Now every MMA site on the web has three stories about the man from the 209, and we won’t start talking about Lesnar-Overeem until mid-September at the earliest.
Since we’re all speculating, CagePotato thought we would pass on this delicious rumor: Nick Diaz will still be competing at UFC 137, against BJ Penn.
Dana White told MMAJunkie yesterday that he was working on finding an opponent to replace Carlos Condit, and he obviously had someone in mind, saying “if I told you what I want to do with that fight you guys would flip out, so we’ll see what happens.”
See, White has a real problem in Diaz. The last thing Zuffa wants to do is release him, since he would immediately sign a deal with another promotion like EliteXC or Bellator and be fighting again before Halloween. Despite all the backlash against Diaz in the last twelve hours, he’s still a massively popular fighter because of his style, and White has started to catch on to the fact that cutting fighters too quickly only makes his competition stronger.
Expect the UFC to take the stance that pulling Diaz from the title fight is sufficient punishment for his unreliability and general sketchiness, and for them to carry on with “business as usual” with Diaz. And the first step in that process will be the announcement that Diaz will have to face Baby Jay to start making amends.
A match between the two would be intriguing because both fighters have sharp boxing skills backed up with superlative groundwork, and both fighters have been criticized for inconsistency in the past. Of course, Penn is inconsistent in that you never know who will show up at a BJ Penn fight, while Diaz is not consistently a rational human being. The result: a fight every bit as unpredictable and competitive as Diaz himself.
Now if they can just get him back into the Octagon…
[RX]