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LAS VEGAS -- All the attention focused this week on a potential Nick Diaz vs. Georges St-Pierre blockbuster has obscured a simple fact: Diaz vs. Carlos Condit at UFC 143 on Saturday night promises to be one hell of a matchup.
The two fighters couldn't have more different personalities, but when the cage door locks, both have a history of delivering everything a fight fan could ask for when they plunk their money down to watch a pay-per-view.
Diaz and Condit can both get technical on you and win with their well-rounded skill sets. But neither will shy away from a down-and-dirty firefight, and both are capable of digging for something extra when the odds appear against them.
Condit first made waves on the national scene as WEC welterweight champion, winning memorable fights such as his four-round war with Hiromitsu Miura at WEC 35. If that wasn't enough to demonstrate Condit's heart, his reputation was sealed at UFC 115, when he dropped the first two rounds against Rory MacDonald, then, needing, a finish, roared back to finish the British Columbian on his home turf in the fight's closing seconds.
[Related: Nick Diaz's straightforward fight approach defies crazy rep]
Diaz has taken notice, saying at Thursday's news conference at Mandalay Bay that he considers Condit a bigger threat than GSP.
"He's more of a dangerous fighter," said Diaz. "You're more in danger of losing a decision to GSP and more in danger of losing your teeth fighting Condit."
Diaz's rep for exciting fights is legendary, from his PRIDE battle in Las Vegas against Takanori Gomi, in which he finished Gomi with a gogoplata seconds after Gomi cracked Diaz's orbital bone with a big knee (the win was later changed to a no-contest, since Diaz tested positive for marijuana) to his most recent fight, in which he picked apart B.J. Penn standing.
Throw all those elements together and you've got a fight that, on paper, could end up in the mix for fight of the year.
"No matter who wins, the fans will win," said Condit.
The potential for a memorable bout in Diaz-Condit is the biggest and most obvious thing to keep an eye on at UFC 143. Here are four others:
*Imagine a heavyweight who had the ability to deliver awesome knockouts, had a deceptively strong ground game, and maybe didn't win all his fights, but showed exceptional toughness even in defeat. Sounds like a "UFC job for life" type, right? Well, not when you're Roy Nelson and you don't have "the right look." It's no secret UFC boss Dana White isn't his biggest fan, so Nelson needs to deliver against the returning Fabricio Werdum, who also comes into the fight feeling he has something to prove. A loss would be three out of four for "Big Country," and that could make Nelson a target for the ax in a UFC heavyweight division that's about to become flooded with Strikeforce additions.
*Mike Pierce has hung around the UFC's welterweight division for three years. The Team Quest standout has rung up a 5-2 record since debuting with an upset win over Brock Larson. But his losses have come when he's been given a chance against upper-echelon fighters, and worse, they've come against guys solid in his own strength, wrestling, as he dropped decisions to Jon Fitch and Johny Hendricks. He gets another chance at the elites on Saturday when he meets yet another standout wrestler in Josh Koscheck. UFC 143 should prove whether Pierce will become one to watch in 2012 or just another face on cable TV cards.
*Where does Koscheck stand in the current pecking order? After his last fight, a KO win over Matt Hughes, Koscheck talked about potentially going up to 185 pounds, since he had last twice to Georges St-Pierre and won't fight teammate Jon Fitch. Since then, though, Fitch has stumbled, and the GSP-Diaz-Condit triangle has changed the parameters at the top of the 170-pound ladder. A solid win over Pierce would seem to set up a bout between Kos and the loser of the Diaz-Condit fight.
[Related: Carlos Condit anxious to fight 'crazy' Nick Diaz in UFC 143]
*Don't sleep on the Renan Barao-Scott Jorgensen bantamweight fight. Barao, the Brazilian submission wiz, has rattled off 27 consecutive wins (minus a no-contest), including all four on these shores under the WEC and UFC banners. Jorgensen, meanwhile, has won seven of eight, with wins over the likes of Takeya Mizugaki and Jeff Curran and only a loss to Dominick Cruz in the bout to crown the first UFC bantamweight titleholder in the span. Whoever takes this one should be well on their way toward earning a title shot after Cruz and Urijah Faber finally settle their business.
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Dana White has said it for years, the fight game isn't a place for team camaraderie in the long run, The fight game will eventually will split up even the best of friends.
The heat between former teammates Jon Jones and Rashad Evans has been palpable for over a year and now we could see two guys, who appeared to be even closer, fighting in the future.
Josh Koscheck is done with American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Ca. That could mean the roadblocks are gone for a Koscheck match against Jon Fitch.
As teammates they said they'd never fight each other unless it was for a title. That always drove their boss nuts. Now that Koscheck is on his own, would they pass up a chance for a title shot if it meant they had to fight?
Koscheck gave a cryptic answer when conversing with White during the UFC 143 postfight press conference.
"That's what I whispered to him," White told the media. "I said, 'Now I'm doing the Jon Fitch fight.' He said, 'Good luck with that.'"
Koscheck gave no details as to why he split from the camp. He first indicated things were on shaky ground during the week when he said he was fighting for "Team Me" not "Team AKA."
He confirmed things during the postfight.
"I'll be training out of Fresno for now. I'm no longer affiliated with some of the people at the gym that I've been training at. I'm going to do my own thing," said Koscheck.
What happened at AKA? Koscheck wouldn't even mention the gym by name.
Koscheck barely squeaked by Mike Pierce and admitted his motivation to fight was less than stellar. Between the drama of leaving his longtime team and Pierce not being a huge name, the veteran UFC star produced a lackluster performance.
"Josh looked flat tonight. I expected Josh to have the faster hands. He didn't really let his hands go tonight," White said. "He looked flat."
Maybe a Fitch fight, with the winner getting a title shot, is exactly the energy Koscheck needs. For now White said he's not planning on Fitch-Koscheck, but he's open to it.
"No. I'm just [expletive] with him. If the fight made sense ... because there was a time when those two were [at the top of the rankings] ... but if the fight made sense, yeah, I'd try to make it. I wouldn't do it just to do it," said White.
Fitch needs to get back in there as soon as possible. Knocking on the door for a second title shot for the last three years, Fitch's chances got crushed when he was knocked out in just 12 seconds at UFC 141 against Johny Hendricks. In the USA Today/Bloody Elbow 170-pound rankings, he dropped all the way down to No. 7.

LAS VEGAS -- Think Georges St-Pierre isn't obsessed with Nick Diaz? Consider this: The UFC welterweight champion didn't know who is playing in Sunday's Super Bowl.
When the Montreal native was asked if he'd be rooting for the New England Patriots against the New York Giants during a media availability at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Wednesday, St-Pierre replied "Are the Patriots playing? I don't even know who's in the [game]. I think New York is in it. New York is closer to Montreal, so I hope New York will win."
One would think St-Pierre would have plenty of time to keep up with the rest of the sports world, since he's been on the sidelines in Los Angeles, rehabbing from his December surgery to repair his torn left ACL.
But it's clear he's fixated on Diaz, the one fighter who has proven his ability to get under his skin.
"I can be a little, what do you call it? OCD. Obsessive-compulsive," said St-Pierre.
Diaz, who fights Condit for the interim welterweight title in the main event of UFC 143 on Saturday night, is the current object of GSP's self-described OCD. While St-Pierre has all the respect in the world for Condit, the champion is openly rooting for a rematch with St-Pierre, who he feels has openly disrespected him.
"I'm thinking about him right now, said St-Pierre. "I don't try to think too much about him. I hope he wins the fight Saturday night. I hope he does, I pray he does. Maybe he won't, but I hope he does."
"I want Nick Diaz to win for two reasons," said St-Pierre. "First, it is the fight everyone wants to see, he was the champion of Strikeforce and I was the champion of the UFC. What lights the fire in me is challenges. When I don't have a challenge, I feel dead. Also, a lot of the things he has said, he has questioned me and my integrity. I have never cheated in my life. It is one thing when you something to promote the fight but it is another when you attack someone personally. It is what it is and that's why I have my motivation to fight him.
St-Pierre said he won't be able to train all-out until July, which makes November the earliest target date for an Octagon return when you factor in a full training camp if all goes well. His last fight was his April 30, 2011, win over Jake Shields, so a November return would mean a year and a half away from the cage.
But St-Pierre's laser focus is aimed at Diaz, so the champ shook off questions of Octagon rust and dismissed the notion of taking a tune-up fight before facing Diaz.
"In mixed martial arts, there's no such thing as a tune-up fight. There's not guy out there who I can say, oh, I can take him. Who knows, that guy might kick my ass. There is no such thing as tune-up fights. In boxing, they can have optional title fights. I truly believe it's ridiculous. You're champion, you should fight the main guy."
So GSP has made it clear Diaz is the man he wants to fight, preferably as soon as November.
"I want him to wait for me. I want him to go on vacation and relax a bit and wait for me, because I'll be back soon."
Just don't ask him about the NBA Finals or the World Series between now and then.
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