Nick Diaz did not play the game, replaced by Carlos Condit

[clovett]

What bullshit.

[Liquidrob]

[EmpireWF]

Oh well. Penn/Diaz will be an awesome fight.

[calgaryballer]

If Diaz wins, then we do it all again. He loses money, as I think there is often a bonus tied to main eventing a PPV. Who knows?

[Liquidrob]

[clovett]

"I talked to Dana after he pulled the fight. I explained why it was a mistake to pull the fight. I understood. I was as mad at Nick as anybody. When I calmed down a little bit and looked at the situation, I said not only am I Nick's trainer, manager...whatever, but I'm also a fan of the sport. And I'm thinking "why is Dana punishing the fans of the sport?" Punish Nick. Fine him a nice fat hefty fine. Do whatever you're gonna do and punish him. All he did was miss a press conference. Seriously? Did one fan in this world even care? It did not make sense to me. I told them this afterwards.

[Kuzzy Powers]

What the fuck is going on.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Absolute retardation.
I doubt most people would ever know or care if they just put Diaz back against GSP. Having against Penn is going to force me to listen to Goldie and Rogan try and convince me this is the way it should have been all along.

Fuckin idiocy.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Im baffled by this.. just makes absolutely no sense.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Absolute retardation.
I doubt most people would ever know or care if they just put Diaz back against GSP. Having against Penn is going to force me to listen to Goldie and Rogan try and convince me this is the way it should have been all along.

Fuckin idiocy.

This is a great point. 90% of the fans would have had no clue any of this happened.

[SHOGUN]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_yl...penn_ufc090911

But he conceded he may be back in the same boat before too much longer. If Diaz beats Penn, White said, and St. Pierre beats Condit, he’d likely give Diaz the title shot.

“We’d be right back in that position again,” he said. “But we’ll deal with it when that happens. I have too much [expletive] to do to worry about what might happen down the road. I wake up every morning and find out I have a whole long list of problems to deal with. Nick Diaz took a week out of my life dealing with this, but next week, it’s going to be something new.”

Dumb.

[Liquidrob]

could you imagine the reaction if this was Strikeforce or even Bellator? The 'MMA Fans' and the 'MMA MEdia' would have killed them, would have been a feeding frenzy

'Bush League!', 'What a farce!', 'The inmates are running the asylum!' and so on, on the other boards you have 'Thank You Dana White' threads being created, amazing

[Warner2BruceTD]

I'm seeing a lot of 'the card is better now' type posts.

[Kuzzy Powers]

Theres a lot more Empire's on the internet then LiquidRob's.. we all know this.

Theres no questioning that this is a disastrous move. I was willing to support cutting Nick from the fight, even tho it took away from a fight I REALLY wanted to see between two guys I really like as human beings, not just fighters, but this is just asinine.

[EmpireWF]

There's no defending the switch. They overreacted and look like fools for switching the fights.