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Cesar Gracie – Nick Diaz will wait for GSP after Condit

By on January 31, 2012

Nick Diaz’s manager and trainer Cesar Gracie was on this Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. He talked about Nick’s match up with Carlos Condit for the interim Welterweight belt and if Diaz would wait for a potential fight with Georges St Pierre or fight again in the meantime.

“If we’re fortunate and we win this fight, I would advise Nick to not take another fight before the GSP fight unless it was in different weight class,” he said. “We want to wait for that 170-pound thing. The people I speak with, they want to see the GSP fight if Nick is able to defeat Condit. That’s where I’m at with it. I’d advise Nick to not take another fight.”

Depending on St-Pierre’s recovery time, that could lead to a 10-month break between fights, a period that Gracie said could be broken up by a temporary move to middleweight.

Gracie’s comment got under the skin of Condit’s manager Malki Kawa, who wondered if the Diaz camp was looking past UFC 143 and into the future.

“At the end of the day, if people are writing Carlos Condit off, it’s a big mistake,” he said. “Carlos is coming to fight. The guy is in great shape. Remember, he was supposed to fight in October. He hasn’t stopped training. He’s coming to fight and this is going to be a real good fight. And if and when he wins this belt, if [the UFC] wants to put him back out to fight again, Carlos is going to fight again and defend his belt against anyone who challenges him. We’re not going to sit around and wait for anyone, not Georges or anybody. If there’s fights out there, Carlos wants them.”

 

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