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UFC 143: Georges St. Pierre Explains How Nick Diaz Is 'Fake Crazy'

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Georges St. Pierre made a comment on UFC Primetime that caused a bit of a stir when he said that Nick Diaz was "fake crazy." During Friday's Q&A session for UFC 143, GSP was asked about the comment and attempted to clear up exactly what he meant.

Via Yahoo! Sports:

What I believe is, he's a very smart guy. He knows what he's doing. He would not be able to do what he's done in his career if he wasn't smart. I do believe maybe he has some mental issues ... I do not believe he is a bad human being. Truth my eyes, because he has been very disrespectful to me and because maybe we'll fight, he's disrespectful, but to you guys, I'm sure if you saw him and asked him for an autograph he'd give it to you.

So, basically GSP thinks that Diaz is playing a character. The same as people accuse Chael Sonnen of doing on a regular basis.

Is GSP onto something? Or is this the real Nick Diaz?

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Diaz himself suggested it wasn't completely all natural

When he said he has to play the bad guy to get fights after the Penn fight.

But if you were to do a Prime Time with Sonnen, you’d see a completely different person, whereas Nick has remained pretty much the same.

by YPG on Feb 4, 2012 2:03 PM EST reply actions  

I doubt it.

Sonnen pretty much never breaks character in front of the cameras.

There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?

by ElliotMatheny on Feb 4, 2012 4:08 PM EST up reply actions  

I hate that word.

There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?

by ElliotMatheny on Feb 4, 2012 6:09 PM EST up reply actions  

That is just Nick’s personality, GSP wants to believe it’s fake crazy

"When you believe in something and you're a good person...things happen" - Junior Dos Santos

by Elitex10x on Feb 4, 2012 2:05 PM EST reply actions  

As of

someone gently rapping?

by TMadeBurner on Feb 4, 2012 2:17 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

rapping ay my dealer’s door

"You should work for 15 minutes to knock your opponent out, submit him, or improve your position to give yourself the best chance of doing either." - Dan Hardy

by Day Man on Feb 4, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions  

gogoplataing my jugular

A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand -- Nabokov

by mollcutpurse on Feb 4, 2012 2:22 PM EST up reply actions  

gsp is full of it

he’s the fakest champ ever.

by AGonzo on Feb 4, 2012 2:07 PM EST reply actions  

Jon Jones is the Jone Jones of being fake

"You should work for 15 minutes to knock your opponent out, submit him, or improve your position to give yourself the best chance of doing either." - Dan Hardy

by Day Man on Feb 4, 2012 2:15 PM EST up reply actions  

In fairness to Rashad

He uses his fakeness to set up his wrestling quite well.

by TMadeBurner on Feb 4, 2012 2:26 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

*Jon

"You should work for 15 minutes to knock your opponent out, submit him, or improve your position to give yourself the best chance of doing either." - Dan Hardy

by Day Man on Feb 4, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions  

"Very fake in his fakitude is Georges, Joe"

“Georges has been working on his fakeness very hard in rehab, under the tutelage of Fakeass Zahabi and Fakie Roach. You could also tell that he’s had some top shelf farcing partners at Fakeson and Fakeljohn’s gym.”

There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?

by ElliotMatheny on Feb 4, 2012 4:06 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

the original or the hilarious shopped primetime one?

by Superstitiousmma on Feb 4, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions  

The grade two photo of Diaz on primetime was shopped? I dont think so.

by Adam Lee on Feb 4, 2012 2:30 PM EST up reply actions  

The primetime one wasn't the photoshopped one.

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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 4, 2012 2:59 PM EST up reply actions  

If you watched primetime

even from his inner circle says the same thing about him – this ain’t no act.

WHERE YOU AT GEORGES!

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by sklart on Feb 4, 2012 2:16 PM EST reply actions  

I think in promotion of fights he plays a slightly exaggerated version of himself

but all of the social ticks we’ve seen him display in interviews and such are all him IMO…

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by Tonley on Feb 4, 2012 2:20 PM EST reply actions  

OMG

Part 1 is complete!

"Stop smiling you are about to be punched in the face !"

by Warhand on Feb 5, 2012 12:36 PM EST up reply actions  

Here is the thing:

Nick is crazy. He lost a shot at the title with GSP because he didn’t want to do the presser. Thats crazy! If it is an act, then the act cost him the title shot with GSP and that is really crazy! Nick Diaz doesn’t know how to do much of anything beside run, swim, bike, and fight. Oh yeah and smoke weed.

"Stop smiling you are about to be punched in the face !"
"But he sits there like a robot and doesn't say anything at all, just like he's not going to say anything about me calling him a bitch now. If I saw B.J. Penn walking down the street and called him a bitch, we would be fighting right there on the spot." Nick Diaz

by Warhand on Feb 4, 2012 2:25 PM EST reply actions  

both

little from column A
little from column B

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by Cory Braiterman on Feb 4, 2012 2:25 PM EST reply actions   2 recs

I am from the 209

He is not faking that attitude. People live like that out there.

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by Ionnes on Feb 4, 2012 2:26 PM EST reply actions  

Honestly, the number one quality a professional fighter needs to succeed is being good at fighting. Nick is good at fighting. You don’t really need to be smart, or even particularly sane, to be a good fighter, as long as your craziness doesn’t interfer with your training or fighting.

by Simen on Feb 4, 2012 2:36 PM EST reply actions  

Mind Blown

You’re telling me that the most important quality for being a successful fighter is being a good fighter? Sorry, bro. But until you show me some scientific studies or other hard evidence to back that statement up, I’m calling bullshit.

by Ironbuddha on Feb 4, 2012 4:54 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

He is disrespectful to GSP

Because he believes that he is a punk and not a real “fighter”. He believes he’s a points fighter and doesn’t have what he believes is the proper approach to fighting.

Minowa is a little guy but he's very good to break a fighters foot and my foot is very special to me.

by dedstrk316 on Feb 4, 2012 2:51 PM EST reply actions  

I think GSP is acting more than Diaz is lately.

All this talk of how he hates Diaz, wants to destroy him, etc. I don’t think for a second that GSP is hurt by anything Diaz says. I just don’t. And besides, we all know GSP is a nerdlinger. :)

"You've got Floyd Mayweather making $25 million. He can't stop a double-leg..." Nick Diaz.

by pud333 on Feb 4, 2012 2:55 PM EST reply actions  

it was a very unique UFC Prime Time featuring 3 persons instead of the regular two

and to me GSP seemed the most dreadful of the 3 guys.

And i cant wait for the event to get started! I dont know if anyone of you have seen Snatch one of my favorite movies with that great Oasis song during the fight ( f..king in the bushes) tonight it will be a fight for which this song would pass perfectly. Another song from the movie which would pass for GSP is the " Angel " from Massive Attack.

Also, Nick is Nick being Nick. But i dont know where to put that handshake i have seen today.

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by szanpan on Feb 4, 2012 3:13 PM EST up reply actions  

I hope you are right.

Cause I’d like to see GSP fight with some emotion.

"You've got Floyd Mayweather making $25 million. He can't stop a double-leg..." Nick Diaz.

by pud333 on Feb 4, 2012 4:00 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

Me too

Although he might decide to strike with Diaz more than he needs to.

The problem with Diaz isn’t that he starches dudes in a one sided manner. They think “Nick Diaz is making fun of me in the middle of a fight? Fuck this guy”. So guys decide to strike with him and they start landing. They think “Hey, I could beat Nick Diaz standing. I’m landing punches.” Then they start to slow down with their counter punches, while Diaz is keeping the same pace he did at the beginning of the round. Then they realize that they are getting hit a lot. “Oh fuck, Diaz is hitting me three times every time I hit him once”. Diaz starts digging into the body and they’re like “Oh shit, those body shots are taking it out of me”. Then they gas.

“Oh fuck, Diaz is about to beat the shit out of me.”

Then he does.
Like a bawse.

by discoandherpes on Feb 4, 2012 4:33 PM EST up reply actions  

can we instead discuss Nick's manscaping?

because he has no more body hair and his eyebrows appear to have been waxed

A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand -- Nabokov

by mollcutpurse on Feb 4, 2012 2:58 PM EST reply actions  

LOL for me too !!!!! BUT ALSO the most waxed eyebrows are of Pettis

and whenever i look to that guy i m asking myself wow is it possible can it really be that he is waxing his eyebrows THIS much?

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by szanpan on Feb 4, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions  

He's a triathlete

Shaving body hair helps his swimming.

by Scott Whitaker on Feb 4, 2012 3:47 PM EST up reply actions  

Why does "fake crazy" appear in quotations but not in the quote?

Is there more of the interview that’s not included? Because if not that seems misleading to put in a title. It’s much stronger than what GSP says in that snippet.

by Scott Whitaker on Feb 4, 2012 3:46 PM EST reply actions  

Diaz isn't a very bright individual

But a very hard-working one who deserves to be where he is today.

by rockyman500 on Feb 4, 2012 4:38 PM EST reply actions  

Just for example

At a post-fight conference, probably 137, a reporter asked him something about feeling bittersweet and he didn’t understand what he was talking about. I know it could’ve just been something he didn’t know, but nothing about this guy says intelligent being. Sonnen is a perfect example of someone who pretends to be stupid while actually being an intelligent man, as you can see in a rare, calm interview. Diaz shows no sign of intelligence, outside of fighter IQ.

by rockyman500 on Feb 5, 2012 9:11 PM EST up reply actions  

GSP is the one who is fake.

Say whatever you will about Diaz…that he is an douchebag or a punk, but you cannot deny his commitment and intimidating skill. And if you are going to sit there and spout off about he is pretending, I don’t have anything to say to you, he is one of the realest people in this business, even if it sometimes endangers his career, he is still true to himself. Hmm, I’m reminded of someone else who did that, oh yeah, it was Muhammad Ali.

It pisses me off when keyboard warriors talk shit about him, it is obvious who the haters are. Everyone wants to say he is an asshole, acts like a gangbanger, Dana White wants him to “play by the rules” and what happens? He shakes Condit’s hand, he does press conferences, he does a three part prime-time special and people still give him shit, and the UFC editing dept. tries to form sentences that he didn’t say with words said in a different intent. So, what do you want? You ask the man to play the game and act respectful in front of cameras and then you edit it?

I’m with Diaz… he is a real fighter, once he gets in the mindset that he is going to fight his opponent he doesn’t want to be posed somewhere sitting 4 feet away and chit chat about it because he is supposed to HATE that guy until that fight is finished.

GSP is the one who is the puppet of the UFC, he’ll say whatever they want him to, he is their golden boy, now more than ever.

If this Diaz thing is all an act then he is the Daniel Day Lewis of MMA…and if you think that then you are retarded.

If you don’t like his personality or the way he speaks, fine, I understand, but that is separate from his fighting and the two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.

Bottom line, Nick is one of the best P4P fighters on this planet and he deserves respect.

by jcbrewer on Feb 4, 2012 6:19 PM EST reply actions  

Nick Diaz is NOT crazy. But he is NOT fake either

What I believe is that Nick have communicating issue with others. If I am not wrong, he is either Bi-Polar Disorder or ADHD.

I am not asking GSP to forgive him for what he have said. I wonder if he would forgive him if Nick just couldn’t control what he say most of the time? I understand that most people would assume that the fact that you are an adult, you must talk like everyone else. Personally, I believe that he didn’t want to behave that way. He just couldn’t control himself.

by Ekot420 on Feb 5, 2012 8:24 PM EST reply actions  

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