UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre will have plenty to say about the UFC 143 main event when he participates in a live chat with MMAFighting.com readers on Friday.
The winner of that main event, Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit, will earn the interim welterweight title, and our live chat is your chance to ask St. Pierre who he thinks will win, who he'd rather fight, how his rehabilitation from knee surgery is going and anything else you'd like to know.
The chat begins at 4 PM ET below.
LAS VEGAS -- Watch below as British MMA journalist extraordinaire Gareth A. Davis and I look ahead to Saturday night's UFC 143 pay-per-view, headlined by Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit for the interim welterweight title.
LAS VEGAS -- The UFC 143 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Full UFC 143 weigh-in results here. Check out the highlights below.
For the first time since 2008, a man other than Georges St. Pierre will lay claim to the UFC's welterweight strap.
Welterweight headliners Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit both made weight during Friday's UFC 143 weigh-ins at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, rendering their interim title tilt official. No stranger to championships bouts, Condit managed to hit his mark perfectly, tipping the scales at 169 pounds. Diaz quickly followed suit, skimming the welterweight limit at 169 pounds to a chorus of cheers from the adoring Las Vegas audience.
All 22 fighters taking part in UFC 143 on Saturday night will first step on the scale at the UFC 143 weigh-ins on Friday, and we'll have the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
In the main event, former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz will square off against Carlos Condit for the UFC interim welterweight championship belt. In the co-main event, Roy Nelson will battle Fabricio Werdum in a heavyweight tilt. The other three fights on the UFC 143 pay-per-view card are Josh Koscheck vs. Mike Pierce, Renan Barao vs. Scott Jorgensen and Ed Herman vs. Clifford Starks.
The weigh-in, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., begins at 7 p.m. ET on Friday and the video is below.
At UFC 143: Carlos Condit vs. Nick Diaz, more is on the line than a simple interim UFC welterweight title. Each fighter is at a different place in a different moment in their career. What's at stake for each surpasses a simple win or loss on their respective records. Each fight in the UFC is chance to write the future. Let's take a closer look at the match-ups to see the specific predicament tomorrow's competitors find themselves in - and where they hope to go.
The UFC's annual Super Bowl weekend card has been noticeably short of buzz. Maybe that's because UFC 143 was originally supposed to feature welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre defending his belt, or maybe it's simply because the sports world is all aflutter with the New England Patriots vs. New York Giants matchup. Or maybe, increasingly sophisticated fans are underwhelmed by the injury-racked undercard.
Whatever the case, at least fans who pay big money to watch the event in person or plunk down $55 to view it at home have little chance of being let down by the main event.
Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit are two of the more intense fighters in the division. They're also cut from the same cloth, action fighters who will savagely compete until the final horn. And that should make the interim title fight a sight to behold.
We're just one day away from UFC 143: Condit vs. Diaz. Before we can enjoy the fights, let's make sure we're up to speed on that brawl and the rest of the sport of mixed martial martial arts. From Thursday's UFC 143 pre-fight press conference, to Chuck Liddell's newest Super Bowl commercial, catch up with everything you might have missed and everything you need to see on today's edition of the Morning Report.
LAS VEGAS -- UFC president Dana White met with the media following Thursday's UFC 143 pre-fight press conference. Among the topics discussed were Saturday night's main event between Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit, the FTC's investigation of Zuffa, and the future of Strikeforce. Watch the highlights below.
LAS VEGAS -- UFC 143's top stars met with the media at the UFC 143 pre-fight press conference. Find out what Nick Diaz, Carlos Condit and others had to say Thursday afternoon. Watch the highlights below.
One thing can be certain after Thursday afternoon's UFC 143 press conference: Nick Diaz has a great deal of respect for Carlos Condit. Breaking custom, he even shook Condit's hand after the two posed for photographers at the conclusion of the event, held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It was a noticeable change for Diaz, who has flipped off, shoved and otherwise attempted to menace several prospective opponents in the days before a fight.
But this Diaz was different: quiet, mellow and reserved. There were no outbursts or complaints about respect. There were no scathing criticisms of anything surrounding the sport. In fact, he saved his only prolonged oration to defend his opponent.
Yes, Diaz came to the side of Condit, after being asked about Georges St-Pierre overshadowing Condit in the lead-up to UFC 143.
LAS VEGAS -- The UFC 143 open workouts took place Wednesday afternoon at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Watch below as headliners Carlos Condit and Nick Diaz work out in front of fans and media.
UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre on Wednesday at the UFC 143 workouts discussed in-depth Nick Diaz's public personal, his own personal demons and much more.
Diaz faces Carlos Condit this Saturday at UFC 143 to determine the interim champion while St. Pierre nurses his knee injury.
Hear from St-Pierre in his own words in the video below.
UFC President Dana White and main event fighters Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit will meet the media on Thursday for the UFC 143 pre-fight press conference, and we'll carry the live video right here at MMAFighting.com.
The pre-fight press conference is the final opportunity for members of the media to question the fighters, and for this particular card it should be particularly interesting to see Nick Diaz, who isn't exactly known for being in a great mood at press conferences, when he attends at all.
The UFC 143 pre-fight press conference begins on Thursday at 4 PM ET and the video is below.
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