Georges St-Pierre was not too impressed with the way Nick Diaz called him out following his victory over BJ Penn at UFC 137. In fact, he was downright pissed off. It was not Nick Diaz’s doing alone though, Cesar Gracie called out from his corner “call that mother- f***er out!”
Cesar explained his reasoning behind doing this to Mauro Ranallo on “The MMA Show“. He stated that he has to speak a different language for Nick to get through to Nick; that different language is “209ese.”
Well what’s going on is unfortunately for me, I had a mic on and I didn’t realize that or else I wouldn’t have said that. Why did I say it? That’s the language these guys speak. Before the fight, after the weigh ins, we were told by Joe Silva ‘if you guys want it, you guys call people out. That’s how the fights get done, you call em out,” and I wanted to make sure that Nick knew that. I speak several languages. I’m speaking to you in English, so if I spoke Japanese or Portuguese or something, you wouldn’t understand what I’m saying. When I speak to Nick, I have to speak in ‘209ese’ and that’s the language he understands. If I said ‘Hey Nick, would you like to explain your position and articulate how you would like to fight Mr. St. Pierre,’ he wouldn’t know what the hell I was talking about. That was directed at him (GSP), I didn’t think he was going to hear it obviously. This has nothing to do with GSP, I actually like the guy. – Transcription thanks to MMAmania.com
The question is, if Cesar hadn’t have told Nick to call Georges out, would that fight be happening? What do you Sucka’s think? Should fighters have to call each other out to get fights?
