It was speculated to no end whether or not the winner of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix would be the Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion. With the current champ, Alistair Overeem leaving Strikeforce it was presumed that the winner would indeed be the new champion.
When the name Josh Barnett comes up, people think of the fact that he is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, he tested positive for PED's three times and in some people's opinion caused Affliction to fold after he tested positive for the third time. Which in turn caused his bout with Fedor Emelianenko to be cancelled.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – STRIKEFORCE® announced today that HDNet will broadcast live preliminary bouts and official weigh-ins for the WORLD GRAND PRIX SEMI-FINALS on Sept. 10 in Cincinnati, as well as for the WORLD GRAND PRIX FINALS scheduled to take place in the coming months.
The true face of women's MMA has been "Haywire" lately. Yes that was sort of tongue in cheek. She was off for the last little while filming a Steven Soderbergh film called Haywire.
Novemeber 12, 1993 in Denver, Colorado was the birthmark of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event live on pay per view and the event was a one night tournament with Royce Gracie emerging victorious. On November 12, 2011 in Anaheim, California another historic moment for the UFC will be taking place.
Who would like to see a unification bout between the Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion, Dan Henderson and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Jon Jones (Well that's if Jones beats Rampage)? Dan Henderson would and he spoke about that with MMAWeekly Radio this past Wednesday.
When a fighter is out for long period of time, all they want to do is get back in there as soon as possible. Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal is no exception.
The former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion has not been in the cage since he lost his title to Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante last August and suffered a torn ACL and PCL during the bout.
March 12, 2011. The MMA world shook as the announcement became official. Zuffa, UFC’s parent company, had purchased Strikeforce and swallowed up its only real competition in the MMA landscape.
MMA fans and pundits alike wondered aloud if it was the end of the promotion. The UFC’s acquisition of Pride and WEC signalled the eventual demise of both promotions.
Okay I’m not smoking from a bong. Maybe sometimes I’m considered a conspiracy theorist; like 9-11 being an inside job and that we are headed towards a One-World Government. That is all true. Look it up. Don’t believe what you see on TV because the corporations control the news. Oh and there is also some conspiracies that happen in the sport of MMA like all of this “Overeem being cut from Strikeforce” business.
It was like being in a dream, within a dream, when at the beginning of the Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley fight, the camera zoomed in on Dana White wearing a Strikeforce T-shirt with a Cheshire Cat smile. It was very surreal. It was a great way to kick off the telecast.
