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| Would GSP's injury be as big a deal if Nick Diaz had shown up to the September press conferences? (AP) |
Nitesh Dutt
Parallel universe: a
theory that there is a mirror universe and when one makes a decision in this
universe, an alternate ‘you’ in the other universe makes the opposite decision.
(dictionary.com)
Why is parallel universe being defined in an MMA article?
Simple answer. Let us take a look at how the UFC 137 main event would have
played out if Nick Diaz had caught his flights to Toronto and Las Vegas and had
been at the press conferences.
By now we all know the real reason Diaz never showed for
those dates and was pulled out of his fight against UFC Welterweight Champion
Georges St. Pierre. We know he didn’t want to shoot the commercial the UFC had
planned, because it looked too similar to the GSP vs. Jake Shields commercial.
But, what if Diaz liked the idea and decided to show up? What if he was in
Carlos Condit’s place right now?
In this parallel universe, Diaz was going into the final two
weeks before his UFC 137 title bout still preparing for his tilt with GSP. Just
days before the final weekend, GSP injures in his knee in training and leaves
Diaz without an opponent.
Rather then sit out and wait for GSP to get healthy, Diaz
decides to stay on the card and take on any welterweight that Dana White and
Joe Silva place in front of him. The possibility of either Condit or B.J. Penn
being his opponent is high and it is what would most likely be decided – since Condit was chosen to replace Diaz in
this universe, we’ll replace St. Pierre with him in this alternate universe.
The new UFC 137 main event is Diaz vs. Condit in what is now
dubbed as a number one’s contender match. Elsewhere with Penn now searching for
an opponent, where would White turn? Possibly, Josh Koscheck or maybe another
deserving welterweight.
With the parallel universe unknown to any of us in this
universe, we do not know if such a world exists or such things took place. What
we do know is that UFC 137 was originally slated to be Diaz vs. GSP for the
welterweight title, but after changes and injuries it is Diaz vs. Penn in a
non-title main event.
Something tells me that fans, fighters and even media would
enjoy this other universe more-so than the one we are all in. There is still an
interesting match-up headlining this weekend’s UFC pay-per-view, but will it be
the one that can rock the UFC universe?
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