St. Pierre pines for title shot against Diaz
LAS VEGAS – Nick Diaz is hardly Georges St. Pierre’s favorite person, but St. Pierre, the UFC’s injured welterweight champion, will be rooting vigorously Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center for Diaz to defeat Carlos Condit in the main event of UFC 143.
St. Pierre was supposed to be fighting Diaz for the belt on Saturday, just as he was supposed to fight the ex-Strikeforce champion in October at UFC 137. Each time, though, injuries forced him to pull out.
Diaz dominated B.J. Penn at UFC 137, and UFC president Dana White announced at the post-fight news conference that he would meet St. Pierre in 2012 for the belt. But when St. Pierre re-injured his knee, the UFC scheduled Diaz against Condit instead and announced it would be for the interim title.
St. Pierre is recovering quickly, far faster than expected, and hopes to be able to fight Saturday night’s winner this summer. And though he professes great admiration for Condit as a man and as a fighter, he’ll be cheering for Diaz.
He dropped to his knees and begged for a title shot following a win over Sean Sherk at UFC 56, and said he is just as eager today to get a crack at Diaz.
“I respect Carlos Condit, but I want Diaz to win,” St. Pierre said. “It will be a weird feeling, ...
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