UFC 143 Results: Poirier, Brown, and Thompson Score Finishes on Preliminary Card

Rising featherweight Dustin Poirier pushed his win streak to five-straight as he forced newcomer Max Holloway to submit to a mounted armbar/triangle choke combo to cap off Saturday's UFC 143 preliminary card in Las Vegas. Edwin Figueroa, Matt Brown, Stephen Thompson, Rafael Natal, and Matt Riddle also earned victories on the UFC 143 prelims.

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Angry Nick Diaz face, Dustin Poirier?s submission and more pictures from UFC 143

Check out Tracy Lee's pictures from Saturday night's fights. See Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit's fight played out in pictures, Roy Nelson and Fabricio Werdum's Fight of the Night, Dustin Poirier's submission and more.

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UFC 143 video: Nelson impressed with JDS and Werdum, no so much with Lesnar and Overeem

LAS VEGAS -- Roy Nelson isn't afraid to say what's on his mind even if he's risking a beatdown somewhere down the line.

Speaking to the gathered media at the UFC 143 workout day, "Big Country" is a big backer of Junior dos Santos and had nothing but nice things to say about Fabricio Werdum, his opponent on Saturday night. When it comes to the recently retired Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem, he's not too impressed.

"Other people have the easier roads [to a title] shot, like Overeem. He beat Brock ... ooh. Now you get a title shot. Whatever," joked Nelson. "Overeem does really good at what he does. He's a good striker. Ground? Maybe not so much. Talk about dos Santos here, all he does is knock people out."

Nelson can crow loudly about JDS because he went 15 minutes with the champ and couldn't be finished.

On the topic of Lesnar, Nelson was pretty blunt during a discussion on his hometown radio station ESPN1100/98.9 FM in Las Vegas.

"I don't think he was ever going to retire as champion. I think it was more to introduce the UFC to Alistair Overeem," Nelson said about Lesnar's UFC 141 postfight comments that he would've retired after a fight against dos Santos had he beaten Overeem (5:00 mark). "I think he just wanted to get a paycheck and call it a retirement and call it a day. And good for him."

Werdum (14-5-1, 2-2 UFC) returns to the UFC for the first time since 2008. He was 3-1 with Strikeforce including a win over Fedor Emelianenko. Werdum is a minus-150 over Nelson (16-6, 3-2 UFC).

You can watch UFC 143 right here on Yahoo! Sports

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UFC 143 Video Highlights for ?Diaz vs. Condit?

In case you missed last night's UFC 143 event or want to check it out again, Fox Sports has released highlights from UFC 143, including Carlos Condit's main event win over Nick Diaz to claim the interim UFC welterweight title and a shot at champion Georges St-Pierre as well as wins by Fabricio Werdum, Josh Koscheck, Renan Barao, and Ed Herman.

Source: http://mmafrenzy.com/27493/ufc-143-video-highlights-for-diaz-vs-condit/

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