Georges St. Pierre Out: NO LOSS for UFC 137

By Siri Karri

Many people have written off UFC 137 as another stacked UFC card that went down the drain due to injuries. Champion Georges St. Pierre became injured and his opponent, the always exciting Carlos “Natural Born Killer” Condit opted out of fighting last minute replacement Josh Koscheck and UFC 137 instantly lost a terrific champion and a highlight reel finisher.

And the card got that much better.

Does anyone remember UFC 129? Mark Bocek and Ben Henderson started off the car by going to war. Soon after, Vladimir Matyushenko and Lyoto Machida scored two devastating knockouts and then José Aldo and Mark Hominick put on one of the best fights in a decade.

But do you know what people remember MOST about UFC 129? Georges St. Pierre gently jabbing away at Jake Shields to take a decision. A spectacular card was dampened because the main event failed to live up to the hype. How would a fight with Carlos Condit be any different? Josh Koscheck, Matt Serra, and Dan Hardy? All are exciting fighters who participated in boring fights because of Georges St. Pierre.
Do you know what the main event is now?

BJ “The Prodigy” Penn vs. Nick Diaz. BJ Penn, who before his pair of losses to Frankie Edgar finished seven straight opponents in brutal fashion. In fact, a year ago he knocked a couple years off of Matt Hughes life span by KO’ing him in just 21 seconds. Diaz has finished ten of his last eleven opponents, including a brutal slugfest with Paul Daley in which he came back from two knockdowns to KO the muay thai phenom. Both are Brazilian Ju-Jitsu black belts and own a host of highlight reel submissions set up from by their superiority on the feet. These aren’t fighters who pretend they want to finish fights; they actually do.

What are the possible outcomes to this fight? Either BJ or Nick getting caught on the chin and getting finished by a submission on the ground? A brutal stand up war in which Penn’s sledgehammer of a jab will trade with Diaz’s looping liver shots? A lizard like ground scramble with each fighter transitioning multiple times in a span of a minute?

So tell me fight fans . . .

Do you really shed tears for Georges St. Pierre’s absence?

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