{"id":15206,"date":"2011-08-30T19:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T23:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15206"},"modified":"2011-08-30T19:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T23:21:49","slug":"georges-st-pierre-nick-diaz-ufc-137-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15206","title":{"rendered":"Georges St. Pierre \u2013 Nick Diaz: UFC 137 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15206 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15207\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"georges st pierre header 2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/georges-st-pierre-header-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georges St. Pierre is on a collision course with the bad boy of MMA, Nick Diaz. St. Pierre struggled with Jake Shields in a recent outing, and Diaz is ready to take down the UFC Welterweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>The bout will take place at UFC 137 and is one of the most highly anticipated showdowns in MMA history. <!--more-->St. Pierre is the favorite but the brash striker is looking for UFC gold and may just find it. Diaz has been in the news lately for his boxing challenges to Roy Jones, JR., and Jeff Lacy, but has returned to where the money is and his expertise will come in handy.<\/p>\n<p>Georges St. Pierre, 22-2, may have an edge do to his conditioning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsprushfit.com\">GSP&#8217;s MMA training Program <\/a>has been widely considered the secret to his success. Diaz, 25-7, the ex-Strikeforce Champ, has a lot of bravado and a lot of punching power. Can he overcome the threat that stands in front of him on October 29th?<\/p>\n<p>Recently, GSP had some things to say about his opponent: \u201cI cannot be more motivated than I am right now, I\u2019m fighting Nick Diaz \u2014 he\u2019s the champion of [Strikeforce] and he hasn\u2019t lost in many years,\u201d said St-Pierre. \u201cSo, I want to be the one to defeat him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UFC 137 Card also includes:<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Condit versus B.J. Penn<br \/>\nCheick Kongo versus Matt Mitrione<br \/>\nEliot Marshall versus Brandon Vera<br \/>\nTyson Griffin versus Bart Palaszewski<br \/>\nTim Credeur versus Brad Tavares<br \/>\nJeff Curran versus Scott Jorgensen<br \/>\nMirko &#8220;Cro Cop&#8221; Filipovic versus Roy Nelson<br \/>\nDennis Siver versus Sam Stout<br \/>\nHatsu Hioki versus George Roop<br \/>\nDanny Downes versus Ramsey Nijem<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee Georges St. Pierre is on a collision course with the bad boy of MMA, Nick Diaz. St. Pierre struggled with Jake Shields in a recent outing, and Diaz is ready to take down the UFC Welterweight Champion. The bout will take place at UFC 137 and is one of the most highly [&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":[1918,510,2329,1051,736,4936],"class_list":["post-15206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-georges-st-pierre","tag-mma","tag-nick-diaz","tag-strikeforce","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-137"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206","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=15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}