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Re: [MMA] UFC 137 - Saturday Night

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Sammy, i think it's fair to say that it's time to change your avatar ! LOL

I can't wait any longer for the Hendo vs Shogun fight. Now thats gonna be a great fight !
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For years, while Diaz was fighting in PRIDE, Elite XC and Strikeforce, White said he’d like to have Diaz back in the UFC if only Diaz would “play the game.”

Diaz wasn’t playing a game when he took Penn apart Saturday and he didn’t play the game that White wanted when he dominated the news conference to an even greater degree than he did his fight.

“I’ve never backed out of a fight in my life,” Diaz said angrily. “You show me someone else who hasn’t done that, pulled some [expletive] about an injury. I’ve been injured all these last fights, even this one. I didn’t pull out, you know? I had no reason to fight. I’m depressed about this whole not fighting [St. Pierre], not getting paid what I wanted to get paid. I could have pulled out with any of these injuries. My knee hurts. Oh, my hamstring. My hamstring … I’ve got the same issues, man. I go running all the time out of my neighborhood, out of the bad neighborhood into the good neighborhood where I like to run. I run by hundreds of these nice huge houses with these big yards, and fountains everywhere. They have their picnic-patio little side yards with a pool. All this stuff, right?

“Then I take a little circle around and go back into my neighborhood, where my car gets robbed, there’s a dude out in front of my house looking for cigarette butts, hoping some friend might have left some. It’s ridiculous.”

White tried to create some levity when he interrupted Diaz.

“Let me tell you,” White said from the podium to Diaz, “I don’t know how much houses cost up there in Stockton, but bro, let me tell you, you got enough money to move. I guarantee you that.”

Everyone in the room laughed except Diaz. He bit his lip and looked down.

He said he can’t do the things he wants to do because his training schedule is so intense. He wasn’t going to back down, and he spoke back to White.

“Not when I’m fighting every two months, every three months,” Diaz said. “I’m going to take a few fights off. My brother moved and you know, it’s like, phew. It’s a long story, man. You laugh, but I don’t know how to go buy a house in the middle of all this training. I didn’t go to school for that.”

»sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=k···re103011

GSP isn't a striker either. He's a grappler / ground and pound wrestler.

Georgie boy is going right for a take-down attempt.....he doesn't even wanna stand up and brawl with Nick.
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Let's not forget that GSP broke Koscheck's orbital bone with jabs. His standup has improved quite a bit and while he's not a single-dimension striker, his striking is pretty good. That said, I too think he'll go for a takedown pretty quickly. If Diaz's strength is on his feet and GSP is better on the ground, why would he want to stand and put himself in Nick's comfort zone?
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Hey bro do I owe you 20? I tried to send you a IM but you're not accepting any.

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Yeah surprised he fought at welterweight.
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Found a couple vids.. The first is an interview with BJ Penn at his brother Regan's fight. Dude must have superhuman healing powers as his face looks normal in only a week. Second is fan-made a UFC 143 GSP VS Diaz promo. Pretty cool.

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About Nick Diaz vs. GSP, unless it's stopped due to a cut, there is no way GSP beats Nick Diaz. No way.