(11-03-2013 02:02 )terence Wrote: [ -> ]do you two EVER agree?
(11-03-2013 02:38 )groundnpound Wrote: [ -> ]Mitchell's a great lad mate. He knows I respect his posts He knows his stuff.
Go on
groundnpound you tell it like it is!
(03-03-2013 00:20 )groundnpound Wrote: [ -> ]I like the lad. He's massively underrated for me
Cheers.
I think Nick Diaz will wipe the floor with GSP on Saturday, what about you?
(24-02-2013 21:26 )groundnpound Wrote: [ -> ]perfectly for me. Job done.
A few Nick Diaz stats for you.
Fights -
36 1 NC
Wins -
26
KO/TKO -
13 (50%)
Submissions -
8 (31%)
Decisions -
5 (19%)
Losses -
8
KO/TKO -
2 (25%)
Submission -
0
Decision -
6 (75%)
Longest win streak -
11 May 2008 - October 2011
Titles held -
3 In 3 different organisations
(05-03-2013 23:09 )groundnpound Wrote: [ -> ]Legendary stuff mate. Top class.
UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz Live
ESPN Saturday/Sunday @2am, prelims at midnight.
Main Card
Welterweight title -
Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz
Welterweight -
Carlos Condit vs. Johny Hendricks
Welterweight -
Jake Ellenberger vs. Nate Marquardt
Middleweight -
Chris Camozzi vs. Nick Ring
Lightweight -
Mike Ricci vs. Colin Fletcher
Preliminary card
Welterweight -
Patrick Côté vs. Bobby Voelker
Featherweight -
Darren Elkins vs. Antonio Carvalho
Welterweight -
Dan Miller vs. Jordan Mein
Lightweight -
Daron Cruickshank vs. John Makdessi
(28-01-2013 20:12 )groundnpound Wrote: [ -> ]Good display from you Mitchell. Well done lad! Nice.
That was clever Mitchy old boy... I see what you did there. Cutting and editing quotes! Journo, Comedian, Chairman and Manager... Impressive.
(11-03-2013 22:09 )mitchell Wrote: [ -> ]A few Nick Diaz stats for you.
Fights - 36 1 NC
Wins - 26
KO/TKO - 13 (50%)
Submissions - 8 (31%)
Decisions - 5 (19%)
Losses - 8
KO/TKO - 2 (25%)
Submission - 0
Decision - 6 (75%)
Longest win streak - 11 May 2008 - October 2011
Titles held - 3 In 3 different organisations
Must try harder...
GSP hasn't lost a round for 6 years. Not a single round since he lost his belt to Matt Serra in 2007. That's 10 fights. 41 Rounds he's won on the bounce.
The fight between GSP and Nick Diaz on Saturday night will be the most one sided beating in a Championship fight the World has ever seen.
Dana White (UFC President) said Diaz is only being allowed the chance to share an Octagon with GSP because St-Pierre requested to fight him, in order to silence him. Diaz is the #4 Welterweight in the UFC, who was outclassed and beaten unanimously in his last fight by Carlos Condit, the man GSP dominated for 5 rounds last time out.
Josh Koscheck
Matt Hughes
Matt Serra
Jon Fitch
B.J Penn
Thiago Alves
Dan Hardy
Josh Koscheck
Jake Shields
Carlos Condit
Nick Diaz is next.
GSP will hurt him, beat him up, then emphatically finish him.
I've had a cheeky £10 on this, Nick Diaz, Submission or on Points 6/1
They also had odds for a fight I didn't know was happening, Ryan Couture v Ross Pearson, UFC on Fuel TV: Gustafsson vs. Mousasi 6th April. Why is Pearson fighting a guy who's only had 7 fights???
I'll keep the build up going for Saturday!
Dana White spills the beans on exactly why GSP wanted the Diaz fight so badly....
Took this from mmamania.com
White said earlier:
"Nobody has talked about this, I haven't said anything about it, but at one of the fights, the one where he really starts calling Georges out, he was chasing Georges around the hotel and like yelling at him and stuff. Georges thought he was going to try to fight him in the hotel. He was just waiting for the elevator doors to open and see Nick Diaz."
According to White, St. Pierre views Diaz as a bully, and if you know "Rush's" history with bullying, that's a really big deal to him.
"Like at the last fight where he said all that stuff after his last fight when he said all that stuff about Georges, he was really messing with Georges bad at the fight, like trying to fight him at the hotel. That really pissed Georges off. I don't think that would ever happen, but Georges St-Pierre felt like it was. Georges has said publicly many times when he was younger he used to get bullied. That's what got him into martial arts. He just has this crazy thing about bullies and he thinks Nick Diaz is a bully."
We've all heard the jokes about St. Pierre's "dark side," but if what White revealed is true, GSP might be a completely different animal when we see him in the Octagon on Saturday night (March 16, 2013).
"Georges St-Pierre I talked to him last week, he said 'Dana, you have no idea what I'm going to do to this kid, I wanna make him retire'"
If Diaz had scrapped with St. Pierre, it wouldn't be the first time he's gotten into a fight after competing inside the Octagon. Who can forget his notorious hospital brawl with Joe Riggs following UFC 57?
Perhaps GSP's ire is deserved after all.
Diaz no shows today's UFC 158 open workouts.
Dana White's reaction:
"I literally just found out Nick Diaz did not show up for the open workouts today in Montreal....Let me tell you what, there is no shtick with this kid, I mean it's - he's just a different animal man, he's absolutely hard to deal with."
" I got to tell you this, though, I leave tonight for Montreal. The press conference is tomorrow, I'm excited for the press conference and I'm definitely excited for the weigh-ins 'cause, you never know what you're going to get. Well, let me tell you what, if he does not show up tomorrow for the press conference, it is not going to be good. I don't know what I'll say or what I'm going to do, but I'll tell you what -- it will not be good."
"If he wins the title he's going to have to come to Vegas and we're going to have to sit down and we did this already when we signed his new deal, but I'm going to have to tell him, ‘If you miss anything, I will strip you of this title,' and you know what I mean? I don't know what else to do. I really don't know what else to do."
UFC Open-weight Predictions Grand Prix II
UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz
Main Card
Welterweight title - Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz - GSP TKO
Welterweight - Carlos Condit vs. Johny Hendricks - Condit Sub
Welterweight - Jake Ellenberger vs. Nate Marquardt - Ellenberger Dec
Middleweight - Chris Camozzi vs. Nick Ring - Camozzi Dec
Lightweight - Mike Ricci vs. Colin Fletcher - Ricci Dec
Preliminary card
Welterweight - Patrick Côté vs. Bobby Voelker - Cote TKO