UFC 158: Welterweight Grand Prix
 

Can't wait for Condit/ Hendricks and GSP/Diaz. Condit v. Hendricks is the first fight in a long time where I have no idea who's gonna win.

That is a HUGE fight.. By far the biggest of all of them regardless of what Dana says because neither of those guys have bad fights.. Stylistically it's intriguing too.. Neither guys has ever been KO'ed or TKO'ed and both have a high finishing rate.. I'm kinda leaning towards Hendricks cause he reminds me of a young little Dan Henderson, but Condit is a beast too..

Condit's striking diversity is something that Hendricks hasn't had to deal with before. I always liked Hendricks for the reason you mentioned, him being a mini Hendo, but just like Hendo, I really think he's going to struggle with someone who's a eight point striker like Condit, unless of course he force takedowns.

Yeah but does he really want to be in Condit's guard??

:'(

IDK, Condit hasn't really ever subbed anyone outside of Brock Larson or Prater. I really think if Condit is gonna win he gonna stay outside against Hendricks.

he has 13 wins by sub, 13 wins by ko/tko

he hasn't gone to the ground as much since he came into the UFC

Rick Story retweeted something I said to Ariel Helwani..

These fight posters have been sick. I like the Welcome to Stockton one. Wonder if they're available for purchase somewhere.

I think they are fan made except the first one..

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>GSP: "I speak English better than you." To that, Diaz says, "You're out of line bro. F'ing out of line."</p>&mdash; Josh Gross (@JoshGrossESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshGrossESPN/status/309764943354417153">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Nick: You're rapping that bull shit and now you're out of line.</p>&mdash; Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href="https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/309764979559653376">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This is the best thing in the history of conference calls.</p>&mdash; Josh Gross (@JoshGrossESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshGrossESPN/status/309765086988345347">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Nick Diaz has just passed Anderson Silva for the greatest conference call moments in the history of the UFC <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23UFC">#UFC</a></p>&mdash; Damon Martin (@DamonMartin) <a href="https://twitter.com/DamonMartin/status/309765748216180736">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Nick Diaz is pissed that GSP said he deserves to get beat down. REALLY mad.</p>&mdash; MiddleEasy (@MiddleEasy) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEasy/status/309765544477872128">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Diaz is EN FUEGO! <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23UFC">#UFC</a></p>&mdash; Mauro Ranallo (@mauroranallo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mauroranallo/status/309766124747243520">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Nick Diaz says GSP 'thinks he's going to f*cking win for whatever f*cking reason.'</p>&mdash; MiddleEasy (@MiddleEasy) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEasy/status/309766173480865792">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Can't wait for the audio to this.

fuck the audio i cant wait for the fight

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Diaz says he doesn't like how he's made out to this evil person that needs to be conquered. If anything he's the superhero of anti-bullsh*t.</p>&mdash; MiddleEasy (@MiddleEasy) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEasy/status/309766936923865089">March 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Wow 42 minutes long..ill listen to it later but going by Ariel's tweets i've been reading, it sounds worthy.

Start @ 25:20 when Diaz starts shouting about GSP being pampered :lol:

GSP calling Nick an "uneducated fool" is hilarious. The press conference and weigh ins are going to be must see tv. Can't wait for fight week!

The next UFC primetime should just be the conference call

Instead of having Rogan and Dana do the usual yelling about how great this PPV will be at the end of the free tv portion, they should just put together a video package featuring audio from the conference call. Would probably get more buys than the usual routine they do.

Yea they could make a sick vid package outta all this. The poster already is one of the best ever

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You'd think the UFC could have done much better than this. Could be so much more epic. It's unedited BTW.

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Pre-fight presser today! I don't usually get amped for these, but given what took place on the conference call and Nick no-showing open workouts yesterday, things should be interesting.

i think even the weigh-ins will be insane

Dana putting that obnoxious twat Ariel Helwani in his place already makes this press conference great to me.

Nick Diaz, PRESENT FOR THE PRESSER

The fact that so many of the questions are based around Nick justifies this fight taking place. GSP/Hendricks wouldn't have drawn this much interest and I bet the buys reflect it.

The exchanges between GSP and Diaz are gold.

Fill me in

Basically Helwani kept pestering Nick missing the open workouts and Dana eventually intervened and called him out for purposely trying to get a reaction out of Nick and making a bigger story out of it than it was.

That recap doesn't do it justice though. You should definitely check it out for yourself. It's like the first question asked.

Weigh in time

Brittney Palmer

I go back and forth between her and Arianny in terms of who's hotter. The UFC hired two more Octagon girls from Strikeforce as well. Apparently, there's some kind of fight tomorrow too.

Arianny does have nicer tittays based on my OBJECTIVE examination of their Playboy spreads. #Onlyfairandbalancedhere

gonna catch up on all the presser/weigh-in/countdown show tonight

so pumped for this card