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'Upset' Condit 'p***ed off' with St-Pierre

Carlos Condit had been set to fight Georges St-Pierre at UFC 137 before injury struck © Getty Images

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Carlos Condit's manager has revealed the former WEC welterweight champion is upset with Georges St-Pierre after the Canadian demanded Nick Diaz get the next title shot in the aftermath to UFC 137.

Condit had been set to fight St-Pierre in Las Vegas on Saturday, but a knee injury sidelined the champion. As a result Condit was also pulled from the event on the understanding that he would wait for his crack at UFC gold.

However, everything changed after Diaz won a pulsating war with BJ Penn, and then accused St-Pierre of running scared. UFC president Dana White then claimed GSP was so angry that he demanded that Diaz be pushed ahead of Condit for a Super Bowl weekend encounter in February.

"I could understand them coming to us like that," Malki Kawa told The MMA Hour. "The issue with the whole 'he decided to step aside'... obviously, that wasn't the case.

"There was no just stepping aside. There was a little bit more than that. It's going to take more than that. I think we're way more upset with Georges and the way Georges handled it than we are with the way Dana presented it or anything like that.

"I don't know if the emotions of the moment got to him, and he just decided to do that. It's kind of un-Georges-like."

Kawa revealed Condit went through agony in giving up his title shot, although the camp holds nothing against White for the decision. Instead it is St-Pierre who gets the bulk of the blame.

"[Carlos'] words were, 'My heart hurts,'" Kawa said. "Are we p***ed off about it? Absolutely.

"But it's not like I've never been on other end of stick where I put one of my fighters ahead of someone else and another guy got shafted or screwed over. It's just business, it's not personal. It's nothing personal with Georges. Are we upset with him? Absolutely."

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