UFC 143: Primetime Will Make FX Debut to Promote Nick Diaz Vs. Carlos Condit

by Nate Wilcox on Jan 2, 2012 12:24 PM EST in UFC News

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 29: Nick Diaz warms up backstage in his locker room before his bout against BJ Penn during the UFC 137 event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on October 29, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

The first "UFC Primetime" special on the FX network will debut on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11 p.m. ET. The following episdoes will air on January 27 and February 3. The special promotes the upcoming UFC 143 welterweight interim title bout between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The two are fighting for the right to hold champion Georges St. Pierre's belt until he returns from surgery to repair a torn ACL. GSP had to pull out of his scheduled UFC 137 title bout with Condit due to an injury on his other knee then tore his right knee while training for a UFC 143 title bout with Nick Diaz.

Condit got the call up to take GSP's place and it was decided to make it an interim title bout. St. Pierre has held the UFC welterweight title since beating Matt Serra at UFC 83 in 2008. He's made six successful title defenses in that time.

Dias is the former Strikeforce welterweight champion and came to the UFC to fight GSP. He was originally signed to fight for the title at UFC 137 but blew off two press conferences and was pulled from the title fight. Diaz ultimately ended up facing B.J. Penn and taking a three round decision in the Fight of the Night.

Condit has won four straight bouts in the UFC, with three straight by KO or TKO over Dong Hyun Kim, Dan Hardy and Rory MacDonald. He is the former WEC welterweight champion.

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The UFC is really taking a big gamble with this

It’s very surprising to me that the UFC would feature nick in their 1st prime time special. I know they can edit out anything they don’t want seen, but nick being nick, it surprises me they’d trust him like this.

Will make for great tv tho, no doubt about it.

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by cubsin2010 on Jan 2, 2012 12:34 PM EST reply actions

i'm not surprised at all.

the dude’s an interesting mystery and a complicated guy. that’s why it will certainly be great television as you pointed out. i got some high expectations here.

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by Victor Rodriguez on Jan 2, 2012 4:14 PM EST up reply actions

lol, "high"

The rest... is virtually identical

by randy maverick on Jan 2, 2012 5:46 PM EST up reply actions

This fight deserves to have a Primetime, I'm glad they're doing this.

by HeadStomp on Jan 2, 2012 12:37 PM EST reply actions

Diaz Unplugged

I hope they keep as much of Diaz’s rambling in there as possible. I’d hate to see only a bunch of training in the gym shots without any of the articulate clearly thought through Diaz banter.

by UncleMax on Jan 2, 2012 12:43 PM EST via mobile reply actions 6 recs