UFC 143: Condit vs. Diaz Full Fight Video Highlights
by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 5, 2012 2:14 AM EST
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PrintCarlos Condit defeated Nick Diaz by unanimous decision at UFC 143 Saturday night from the Mandalay bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. With the win, Condit became the UFC's interim welterweight champion and will face long-time champion Georges St. Pierre in GSP's return fight after recovering from a knee injury. Condit was able to avoid being suckered into Diaz's striking game and his gameplan of sticking to the outside and working leg kicks and deciding when he wanted to open up with strikes earned him the win on all three judges' scorecards with scores of 49-46, 49-46 and 48-47.
Diaz was almost able to steal the fight in the final minute when he was able to secure a takedown and take Condit's back. Carlos was able to defend well enough to get to the final bell and get his hand raised. Following the bout Diaz claimed he was retiring from the sport of mixed martial arts because he didn't want to put up with a sport that would score the fight for Condit who many saw as having "ran" the whole fight.
Here are the full highlights from the fight courtesy of ESPN:
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Bravo, Carlos.
Beautiful performance.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 5, 2012 2:39 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
That was an epic fight
And I would have loved 2 more rounds of it. When I saw Carlos refuse to be engaged on the fence in the first, I thought it was a good bet he’d have a shot at a decision. Such a disciplined game plan! Wow, what a great fight.
And the Diaz pickers will be all enraged and shit. The live results comments were laughable at points.
I thought Lay N Pray was a stupid insult until I watched Tyrone Woodly fight.
By the way,
This announcer doesn’t know shit.
I thought Lay N Pray was a stupid insult until I watched Tyrone Woodly fight.
The fight was good, Not what I expected... but good
Carlos had a great effective gameplan. He did what he had to do to win.
Watching the fight at first I thought Carlos dominated it… But rewatching it I had it tied up at the 5th (and had Diaz winning the 5th) but the fight could’ve gone either way… Great win for Condit and I hope Diaz doesn’t hang em up after this, would love to see a rematch
I wouldn’t call running backwards until your back hits the cage and then scrambling only to do it over and over again exactly dominating. Smart game plan by Condit. No doubt about that but coming from someone who said that Nick was not going to be able to take the amount of punishment he was going to inflict on him, most of us thought that he was actually going to go toe to toe with Nick.
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by berkeleyboy510 on Feb 5, 2012 3:16 AM EST up reply actions
I said....
Watching the fight at first I thought Carlos dominated it… But rewatching it I had it tied up at the 5th (and had Diaz winning the 5th) but the fight could’ve gone either way…
Condit fought smart.
He never let Diaz get into his groove and had him frustrated a number of times. Condit was backing up — but was still hitting more significant strikes than Diaz.
And something I think that actually affected the judges is that when Diaz tried to ‘clown’ Condit it didn’t work. Condit stuck to his gameplan. He exchanged when he wanted to but always finished with a leg kick.
Diaz had small flurries but couldn’t sustain them into any real offense. Condit kept peppering him with shots and leg kicks — and won.
I’m not going to say he set a template to beat the Diaz brothers, but he was the first fighter to be able to stick to a game plan for an entire fight against the Stockton Slap.
Well done to Condit
Diaz seems to think walking forward and playing tough deserves a win.
Diaz plods forward, Condit circles out landing a body strike, Diaz plods forward again.
Great, now we have a guy fighting like GSP actually fight GSP.
It’s gonna be like watching two safety cars on a formula 1 track.
Go big red!
Are u serious how do you know condits gonna fight the same way against gsp seriously people your gonna complain about condit fighting smart for a tittle and a shot at the real tittle n a couple months. I mean The man literraly has like a 80% finnishing rate and believe me he is no gsp. I can not wait for that fight honestly a lot better than gsp diaz in my eyes.
by youfailme91 on Feb 5, 2012 9:23 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
It's going to be two guys doing legkicks, jabs and counting points.
That’s not why I fell in love with MMA.
Go big red!
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