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Nowadays, Nick Diaz’s plan of attack isn’t just strategy – it’s philosophy.

Fans can pretty much bet that he’ll walk down his opponent and throw
punches until he buckles under the pressure. That’s real fighting, the
way he sees it, and though the variables may change inside the cage, his
approach is the same.

Carlos Condit is next in line to accept the Diaz challenge. Will he be able withstand the onslaught?

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LAS VEGAS – UFC president Dana White doesn’t anticipate having to find a new heavyweight contender a week after the current one was charged with misdemeanor battery.

White said today that it’s his understanding that the charge arose when Alistair Overeem was confronted outside the restroom of a popular Las Vegas club.

“I don’t think he’s in that much trouble,” White said. “This isn’t a situation where he beat somebody up; I don’t think that’s the case.”

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Lose on Saturday night, and it will be curtains for Matt Riddle’s octagon career.

Or will it?

Riddle said the UFC brass has his back when it comes to his work performance, and that buys him a longer shelf life than others. So even if he loses to welterweight newcomer Henry Martinez at UFC 143, he isn’t a man worried about losing his job.

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Carlos Condit may not be as crazy as Nick Diaz, but UFC 143 will allow him to prove his mettle.

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Carlos Condit talked about his UFC 143 showdown against Nick Diaz with Sherdog.com’s Greg Savage.

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UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre admits UFC 143 is going to be weird. After all, he’ll be rooting for enemy Nick Diaz.

“I want this fight with Diaz so badly – as badly as I wanted the title shot when I got down on my knees,” St-Pierre today told the UFC.

That was seven years ago at UFC 56, when his career looked a whole lot different than it does today. Of all the punches he’s slipped on his current path, this one has hit hardest.

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If you want more highlight-reel finishes, pair Cub Swanson with those who like to stand up.

“That makes the best fights for me and for the crowd,” he told
MMAjunkie.com Radio not long after he sent
George Roop’s mouthpiece flying at UFC on FOX 2.

Suggestions? Swanson has Erik Koch or Dustin Poirer, who fights this weekend at UFC 143.

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On Saturday night, Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit meet to determine the UFC’s interim welterweight champ.

On Friday, the man who awaits the winner will speak to the public.

UFC brass recently announced that UFC welterweight champion Georges
St-Pierre hosts February’s pre-UFC 143 UFC Fight
Club Q&A session.

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Quentin Henry said he was happy to take the time to talk, and he should have plenty of it.

“Unless there’s a fire,” he told MMAjunkie.com. “Then I have to call you back.”

Henry was talking earlier this week from the fire department in West Monroe, La., his hometown. In addition to his firefighting duties, Henry has launched a promising MMA career – one that included a vicious knockout on the season debut of MTV’s “Caged.”

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With the spotlight being focused on Dana White and a co-headliner, a distracted “Sugar” Rashad Evans is playing second fiddle.

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