{"id":10064,"date":"2011-05-03T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2011-05-03T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:50:44","slug":"georges-st-pierre-vs-nick-diaz-ufc-president-dana-white-makes-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10064","title":{"rendered":"Georges St. Pierre Vs Nick Diaz: UFC President Dana White Makes it Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7243\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"danawhiteheader2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/danawhiteheader2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Sean Farrell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georges St. Pierre successfully got by Jake Shields over five rounds to earn a unanimous decision victory at UFC 129. Though it wasn&#8217;t his best performance by any means, St. Pierre was dominant in taking Shields the distance and many are now questioning what&#8217;s left for him to accomplish at 170lbs. The name Nick Diaz comes to mind immediately when thinking of the next opponent for &#8220;Rush,&#8221; but Diaz is contracted by Showtime\/Strikeforce and are thought to present an obstacle in bringing that fight to the UFC.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At least, until Dana White told the gathered media after UFC 129 that he owns Strikeforce now and can put that fight together if he sees fit. &#8220;I imagine I could do whatever I wanted to do if I really wanted,&#8221; White said of putting together the bout. &#8220;But we have a contract with Showtime, and he&#8217;s a Strikeforce fighter. We&#8217;ll see how it works out, but that&#8217;s an interesting fight. I&#8217;ll tell you what, I was there for that last fight, and I was blown away by his last fight,&#8221; White said of Diaz&#8217;s early-April title defense against Paul &#8220;Semtex&#8221; Daley. &#8220;He looked incredible. It&#8217;s interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White currently plans to fly to Stockton, California to discuss Nick Diaz and his professional boxing plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Farrell Georges St. Pierre successfully got by Jake Shields over five rounds to earn a unanimous decision victory at UFC 129. Though it wasn&#8217;t his best performance by any means, St. Pierre was dominant in taking Shields the distance and many are now questioning what&#8217;s left for him to accomplish at 170lbs. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,1918,2329],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-dana-white","tag-georges-st-pierre","tag-nick-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}