Georges St-Pierre is fighting Nick Diaz on Saturday night in Montreal and the two competitors have been going back and forth all week, including when Diaz hurled some steroids accusations at GSP. The pay-per-view battle goes down on Saturday for the Welterweight Title after a number of other excellent matchups.
The main card includes the St-Pierre and Diaz fight, while the rest includes Carlos Condit and Johny Hendricks, Jake Ellenberger and Nate Marquardt, Chris Camozzi and Nick Ring as well as Mike Ricci and Colin Fletcher.
Diaz has been the more vocal of the two fighters and has made accusations about St-Pierre, including about steroids as well as calling him out over a conference call with the media. The fight has been long anticipated and Diaz will try to knock of GSP for the first time in quite a while. The fight was supposed to go down in 2011, but an injury or St-Pierre put it on the back burner.
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St-Pierre spoke similarly about the situation during the news conference and Diaz himself has failed two drug tests, but those were for marijuana. Those tests saw him get suspended one year by the Nevada commission, although Diaz is a registered medical marijuana user in California.
St-Pierre is the favorite in the fight as he seeks to improve his 23-2 record and his eighth consecutive title defense, which will be at UFC 158, which is being regulated by the Quebec Athletic Commission. The report says that St-Pierre hasn't lost since April of 2007 and also has never tested positive for any banned substance.
Diaz made the statement while speaking with Sportsnet Radio leading up to the fight at UFC 158 and said that he felt that St-Pierre is using drugs in his training. The interview followed a news conference at the Bell Centre and was just one of many comments Diaz made leading into the fight, as he also made arguments with St-Pierre in a conference call earlier in the week.
White said that a third test would likely get him bounced from UFC, but that remains to be seen if that will happen. This is the next big event following the debut of Ronda Rousey, who is the first women UFC champion.
