Zihabi calls for GSP vs Nate Diaz at UFC 200

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Wild

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Georges St-Pierre made a rare appearance, attending UFC 196 this past weekend. While Dana White said he still doesn't know if the former welterweight champion wants to make a comeback, he did reveal that he was talking to him about a possible return.

Donald Cerrone has called him out for a UFC 200 bout, but it seems like GSP's camp has an eye on a different lightweight contender instead. Firas Zahabi took to twitter to call for a battle between St-Pierre and Nate Diaz, who won an impressive welterweight match against Conor McGregor.


View: https://twitter.com/Firas_Zahabi/status/707758218739589122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw



View: https://twitter.com/Firas_Zahabi/status/707412642823016448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


Diaz, on his part, mentioned that he only wants big fights moving forward, and as Zahabi notes, this "real money fight" certainly qualifies as one. Nate was also recently asking for that very bout against the the all-time great before he got booked against McGregor.

"I just told Dana White, 'I'm going to 170'," Diaz told BJPenn.com before UFC 196. "I’m not fighting these guys. Pettis, Alvarez, all these scary-ass fighters don’t want to fight me. So what the hell am I going to do, sit around this division and wait for a fight?"

"So, it’s all good, I’m going to go up to 170 then. Start eating. I texted that to Dana," he said. "We were talking the day before they called me. I said, 'I'm trying to get the GSP fight' because I heard he’s coming back. He said, 'Oh, I think he wants to fight Lawler.' And then he called me the next day (to book the McGregor fight)."

LINK: Georges St-Pierre's coach calls for Nate Diaz bout at UFC 200
 

Wild

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Maybe Nate surprises, but I think this is a horrible match up for him. It would be a huge payday though.
 

Pitbull9

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GSP def wants Lawler, but i dont think he KNOWS what Lawler he will be facing. This is Lawler 2.0 great TDD, great hands, chin of IRON!
 

Obi-Wan-In-A-Million

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Maybe Nate surprises, but I think this is a horrible match up for him. It would be a huge payday though.
Yea. This fight will be worse for Nate than the Rory fight, aka "The Real Suplex City".

I kind of like it though. Nate gets big money and a chance to avenge big brother's loss. GSP gets a very winnable fight as a tune up before getting his belt back.

I say do it!
 

kneeblock

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Firas is a notoriously unreliable bellwether of what GSP is planning. Only Kristof Midoux was worse.
 

Sweets

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Ye sure lets make a gauntlet match for Nate where he fights the top 5 at welterweight then GSP as a final boss. Seems fair.
 

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I think GSP was at UFC196 to challenge McGregor if he had won (because it would be a huge payday and an easy win for GSP). Since McG didn't they had to step back and re-evaluate the situation. I don't think GSP is scared of anyone per se, but a fight against McG was the lowest-risk/highest reward opportunity for him that ever was.
 

GSPTrainingInAPool

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Does GSP want to take Nate down? His ground game is really dangerous, he has toooon of subs in the UFC and was taught by Cesar Gracie. I'd love to see this fight doe!!!

EDIT: loved the bit about impressed by his performance lmfao
 

Wild

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I think GSP was at UFC196 to challenge McGregor if he had won (because it would be a huge payday and an easy win for GSP). Since McG didn't they had to step back and re-evaluate the situation. I don't think GSP is scared of anyone per se, but a fight against McG was the lowest-risk/highest reward opportunity for him that ever was.
Can you imagine what that fight would have looked like? McGregor would have gotten destroyed.
 

Wild

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I have no idea, it just would have been a story book ending and good to walk off into the sunset on.
Lol yeah, but I think GSP is coming back for his belt. And then he'll walk away again when he wins it. Dana will have a coronary at the press conference.
 

Wintermute

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It would be an interesting fight, but GSP employs the same game-plan as he did against Nick. The question is if Nate employs Nick's gameplan against GSP.
 

Hwoarang

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Why would he call out a guy from the weight division below? And not even the champion?
And it would be a shit house spectacle fight too where gsp would just wrestle fuck the much smaller fighter.
Bitch ass move IMO.