There is an epic battle on the horizon that reflects the hard work of two of the sport's most dangerous middleweights in recent memory if not ever. It is a ridiculously dynamic combination of two amazing competitors who carry unique wars in their approach and blazing fire in their hearts.

Carlos Condit vs. Nick Diaz at UFC 143 is quite possibly the most entertaining match up that can be made across the entire sport within the welterweight division. It is the two ingredients being brought together that make it such a potentially volatile scrap.

Often in life it is simple human nature to seek out our future while forsaking our present. How many times have we all reached for something we did not yet have only to look back tomorrow and wish we could turn back time? Sadly it happens far too often than most may admit.

There is a sickening trend which reflects that mistake going on right now in the MMA world. The MMA community is so completely blinded by their adoration for Georges St. Pierre that they simply cannot sit back and truly take in what is about to happen at UFC 143.

Already there have been comments by the champ himself where he expresses his hopes that Diaz will win so he can fight him due to a frustration with the man himself. Clearly Diaz has dug himself under the skin of the pound for pound great but what a slap in the face to Carlos Condit. Even the champ is overlooking him in hopes of a mega fight between Diaz and GSP.

Honestly right now who cares who and how the winner of this fight will match up with GSP? Until it is over the entire conversation is moot and irrelevant. Without a winner it is all simply conjecture.

Here is a news flash MMA, Georges St. Pierre does not have a damn thing to do with either Carlos Condit or Nick Diaz. Nor does he have a single ounce of influence on this card or any card in the near future for that matter.

So why is Georges St. Pierre the center of every conversation that comes up when we talk about Diaz vs. Condit? Of course the quick answer is to say 'Well he's the champ and this is for an interim title'.

Here's another news flash, Georges St. Pierre is not the champ. If he was there would be no such need for an interim title. The winner of this fight this weekend will become the very best welterweight in the world.

Albeit until St. Pierre can return to prove otherwise, this fight makes one of these two men the best competing welterweight hands down.

GSP has not competed since April of 2011 and may not return until later this year depending on his rehab. He simply cannot compete or defend the title he has gripped so tightly for so many years. This is not his time; take it or leave it.

So forget about GSP for just a second, let go of your fan boy love for a man who honestly is one of the greatest ever. And embrace Nick Diaz vs. Carlos Condit for what it truly is. Because anyone who really knows will tell you this is a one of a kind match up we aren't going to find in this division every day.

Take a look at a man like former Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz. Rough as sandpaper, but as refined as a fine wine. To hear him speak is to turn many enthusiasts off. He is not the most articulate of MMA representatives; he is quite honestly abrasive as public figure. His personality and his antics are a turn off for many fight fans.

But any self-respecting fight fan must appreciate his fight. Where his diplomacy is lacking his warrior spirit is more than making up for it. Nick Diaz exemplifies war inside a cage and has built a poetic career out of a hard and destructive approach that only he can employ.

His hands are like machine gun fire, blisteringly fast, repeatedly attacking, and devastating to opponents. His one punch knockout power is not what makes him dangerous, it is a relentless barrage of peppering blasts that debilitate fighters and exposes their hearts for the kill.

If fighters get their fill of punishment on the feet, they are lured, baited like prey to scramble with Diaz on the ground where he is truly at home. His Cesar Gracie background allows him to roll with any man on the planet matching him in size, with zero fear of doing so.

He can destroy a man on his feet, all the while taunting and agitating him, with relentless strikes. He can seize any extremity on the ground if one dares enter his true comfort zone on the mats. Scrap with Diaz and you are open to immeasurable punishment on the feet. Scramble with Diaz and you are susceptible to lightning fast submissions set up by a well versed ground prowess.

Now take a look at former WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit. Across the cage from Nick Diaz on Saturday night will stand another lethal tactician who knows how it feels to carry a title strap, and also how it feels to destroy opponents.

Condit is not the bad boy that Diaz is. He is far more capable of articulating and representing himself and his craft in a more positive light. He carries a tone of respect and exudes confidence that has been earned over a long career as a combat arts specialist.

Condit represents many of the fine points of MMA both in his reflection as a man and as a fighter. But it is not his attitude or his diplomacy which earned him his reputation; it is his war, his fight which strikes fear into the hearts of men.

“The Natural Born Killer” is not a nickname one earns by grinding out decisions or leaning on judges to write one's legacy. Condit is a finisher who like his opponent can end fights wherever they happen to roam.

People have short memories and see what they choose to focus on. Well fight fans focus on this; Carlos Condit twenty seven wins, five losses, 13 submission wins, 13 knockout wins, three WEC title defenses before crossing over to the UFC.

The man has only lost one fight since 2006 and that was a razor thin split decision.

Condit is a wrecking machine that can turn out a fighter's lights with heavy hands that come like greased lighting on rapid fire. Or he can snatch a limb to add to his trophy wall in Albuquerque New Mexico.

This is a Greg Jackson trained fighter who searches and destroys and does so in championship form with or without a title around his waist. That is what the greatest of champions are made of. So don't for one second bet against him, don't you dare fight fan.

So now look forward to fight night, red corner vs. blue corner, Greg Jackson vs. Cesar Gracie, Carlos Condit vs. Nick Diaz. Think about the desire they both will bring into that cage with them, the hunger, and the drive. Then think about the tools, their hands, their grappling, and their hearts. See that interim title lay between them.

If you can see those angles clearly you should know by now there are not many matches on the planet which can provide the elements we are about to be blessed to see this weekend from Mandalay Bay in the fight capital of the world Las Vegas.

This is a mixed martial arts dream matchup of lethal tacticians who are on the hunt and neither man knows what it means to be prey. They only know the hunt and the kill.

Two former unstoppable champions, fifty three combined wins, twenty six combined KO's, twenty one combined submissions, only six decision wins between them. That is in the ball park of a 90% finish ratio kids. Quite a compelling and exciting combination.

Now you tell me, how excited are you really to see the winner of this bout fight Georges St. Pierre? All due respect to the legacy and man that he is, but who in their right mind is thinking about GSP right now?

It is incredibly disrespectful to either fighter about to lay it all on the line this weekend when we look past their bout to consider what may happen beyond it. These two men quite honestly could not find GSP if he was standing right in front of them because their focus is and should be 100% on each other.

Maybe we should straighten up our fight game etiquette and pay them the same respect, what do you say fight fans? GSP's time will come, but right here right now is Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit's time. Let's give them the respect and credit they have earned, because quite frankly fight fans their match represents far more dynamic and compelling possibilities than any combination of potentials we might find with GSP.

War gentlemen, we anxiously and respectfully await what you have to offer one another and this sport.