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Dana White’s UFC 130 Video Blog # 1

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Dana White’s fight week video blogs are back for UFC 130 this weekend, but the most interesting part of this edition is something that happened at UFC 129 last month in Toronto.

At around the 1:00 mark, White has a brief interaction in the locker room with Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz and to say it was awkward would be a major understatement. Dana tries to make smalltalk with Nick and it seems like he’s trying to talk to a child.


(Video courtesy of YouTube/UFC)

Dana White’s fight week video blogs are back for UFC 130 this weekend, but the most interesting part of this edition is something that happened at UFC 129 last month in Toronto.

At around the 1:00 mark, White has a brief interaction in the locker room with Strikeforce welterweight champ Nick Diaz and to say it was awkward would be a major understatement. Dana tries to make smalltalk with Nick and it seems like he’s trying to talk to a child.

Seriously, does it get any more uncomfortable than this?

White: Did you guys go over to the thing today….the expo?

Diaz: Yeah, we were at it.

White: Yeah? Was it fucking crazy over there?

Diaz: Yeah.

White: Yeah?

Diaz: We couldn’t get anywhere.

White: No? Taking pictures and signing shit?

Diaz: *awkward silence*

And people wonder why The Baldfather isn’t sold on having Diaz coach opposite GSP on the next season of TUF. It would be a subtitled uncomfortable mess. And just imagine if Diaz beats GSP (if they fight), which is a good possibility. There goes one of the UFC’s most marketable assets if he does.

It’s amazing how much more socially adept Nate is than his brother. He makes eye contact, smiles and nods his head to show that he’s listening.

Falling Action: Best and Worst of UFC 129

Filed under: UFCFor those of us who tuned in all the way from the Facebook prelims to the Spike prelims to the pay-per-view card, UFC 129 made for a long and sometimes repetitive night.

There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that. A good knockout…

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For those of us who tuned in all the way from the Facebook prelims to the Spike prelims to the pay-per-view card, UFC 129 made for a long and sometimes repetitive night.

There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that. A good knockout is still a good knockout the second (and third) time you see it, just like ‘UFC Central’ is still an ‘MMA Live’ rip-off whether you’re watching on a laptop or a TV. But am I alone in feeling just a tad overwhelmed by it all?

When you attend a live UFC event, it’s a full evening’s worth of entertainment to begin with. But when you sit through it all from home and still end up rewatching several of those fights again later in the night, at some point they all blur together in the mind. Granted, the UFC can’t assume that its entire audience is hardcore enough to tune in early, but at a certain point it becomes difficult to keep straight who did what to who, and when. Or maybe I’m just easily confused.

Now that we’ve all had a while to digest and decompress Saturday night’s action, let’s look at the big winners, losers, and everything in between after UFC 129.

UFC 129 Live Blog: Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald Updates

Filed under: UFCTORONTO — This is the UFC 129 live blog for Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald, a welterweight bout on tonight’s Spike TV portion of the card at the Rogers Centre.

Diaz (13-6) fought earlier in January and lost to Dong Hyun Kim via unanimou…

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Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald is a fight on the UFC 129 undercard.TORONTO — This is the UFC 129 live blog for Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald, a welterweight bout on tonight’s Spike TV portion of the card at the Rogers Centre.

Diaz (13-6) fought earlier in January and lost to Dong Hyun Kim via unanimous decision. MacDonald (10-1) is coming off the first loss of his career, a TKO at the hands of Carlos Condit at UFC 115 last June.

The live blog is below.

Rory MacDonald Used Carlos Condit Loss as Motivation for UFC 129 Bout

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TORONTO — Watch below as Rory MacDonald talks about his UFC 129 fight against Nate Diaz, what he learned from his devastating loss to Carlos Condit, his time away from MMA dealing with injuries, moving to Montreal, his thoughts on Diaz and much more.

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TORONTO — Watch below as Rory MacDonald talks about his UFC 129 fight against Nate Diaz, what he learned from his devastating loss to Carlos Condit, his time away from MMA dealing with injuries, moving to Montreal, his thoughts on Diaz and much more.

Haunted by First Defeat, Rory MacDonald Looks to Rebound at UFC 129

Filed under: UFCIt’s been ten months since UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald (10-1) lost a heartbreaker of a fight to Carlos Condit at UFC 115, and he’s finally put it behind him.

Well, mostly. Sort of.

That is to say, he’s put it behind as much as a…

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It’s been ten months since UFC welterweight Rory MacDonald (10-1) lost a heartbreaker of a fight to Carlos Condit at UFC 115, and he’s finally put it behind him.

Well, mostly. Sort of.

That is to say, he’s put it behind as much as any fighter can after being stopped in the final ten seconds of a fight he was winning on the scorecards. Had he lasted just seven seconds longer, MacDonald would likely have won a split decision victory. Instead, he went home with his first loss, and he’s been feeling the sting of it ever since.

“It was difficult,” said the 21-year-old MacDonald. “It was really hard to deal with, but I think I’ve dealt with most of it by now. I still think I need to get in there again and win this fight [against Nate Diaz at UFC 129] to really get over it, and maybe one day I need to get a rematch with Carlos to fully get over it. I don’t know.”

UFC 129 Prelims on Spike TV to Feature Two Welterweight Bouts

Filed under: UFC, NewsWelterweight matchups Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald and Sean Pierson vs. Jake Ellenberger have been selected as the two undercard bouts to air live on Spike TV off the UFC 129 card on Saturday, April 30 in Toronto.

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Welterweight matchups Nate Diaz vs. Rory MacDonald and Sean Pierson vs. Jake Ellenberger have been selected as the two undercard bouts to air live on Spike TV off the UFC 129 card on Saturday, April 30 in Toronto.

UFC 129: Prelims will air at 8 p.m. ET as a lead-in to the pay-per-view headlined by Georges St-Pierre vs. Jake Shields. The new pay-per-view airtime of 9 p.m. ET begins with this event.