Dana White announced via Twitter that Georges St. Pierre is out of UFC 137 with a knee injury and that the new main event is Diaz vs Penn. This really is a massive hammer blow to the UFC, especially on such short notice. The prospect of seeing GSP is arguably what made thousands of fans buy tickets and now they are left with a slightly crummy Penn vs Diaz fight.
UFC 137 will undoubtedly be less watched because of this. With GSP gone, the fight card honestly isn't that interesting a part from Cro Cop's last fight against Roy Nelson (that should have been the main event in my opinion). Nick Diaz taking on BJ Penn is not exactly going to be the most entertaining fight, and will be no where near the magnitude of a GSP vs Condit clash.
What's more, Condit will wait until GSP is fully recovered. It's not as if they are just finding him another opponent, the whole fight has been wiped off the card. Carlos Condit beat Dan Hardy so he deserves something, but WHY ON EARTH WON'T THE UFC TAKE THIS CHANCE TO PUT ON A SILVA VS GSP BOUT (when they can)???
Carlos Condit can wait. The fight that will break all records, the fight that will easily make the most money for the UFC is Anderson Silva against GSP so why are they not taking this opportunity to say that Condit will fight somebody else (Josh Koscheck said he was up for it) and that GSP's next fight will be a mega blockbuster against The Spider? Only Dana will know the answer to that question.
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