GSP tears ACL, Interim Title bout booked for UFC 143

The injury bug won't go away...

This really sucks for the UFC. Let's hope Nick Diaz can trash talk this PPV into one that does more than 250-350K buys. I'm sure Dana White hopes so. Talk about bad luck....

Via UFC.com:

For the second time in two months, welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has been injured and forced to withdraw from a title defense.

"GSP blown acl will be out for 10 mos. Now [Carlos] Condit vs [Nick] Diaz for the interim welterweight title on Feb 4th in Las Vegas!!" UFC president Dana White tweeted.

St-Pierre was originally slated to face Diaz in the main event of UFC 137; Diaz was then replaced by Carlos Condit.

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The question isn't just when will GSP return, but if he'll ever be the same fighter he was. If anything, this might make UFC's top PPV draw (besides Brock Lesnar) fight an even safer style than he does right now. Get well soon, GSP. 

Updated UFC 143 Super Bowl weekend card:

Interim Welterweight Championship bout: Carlos Condit vs. Nick Diaz

Featherweight bout: Erik Koch vs. Dustin Poirier

Bantamweight bout: Alex Caceres vs. Edwin Figueroa

Middleweight bout: Rafael Natal vs. Michael Kuiper

Welterweight bout: Jorge Lopez vs. Amir Sadollah