Live from Dallas, Texas the second round of The Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix went into full swing. Alistair Overeem fought a highly technical match of cat and mouse with Fabricio Werdum who was tentative to stand up with the K-1 World GP champion. Werdum held his own though, landing in our opinion the cleaner and [...]
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Get Ready For The Biggest Heavyweight Bout Tomorrow On Showtime
By Sammy Perez We had to wait four months for the second tier of quarterfinal round match-ups in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix tournament, but if the fights live up to hype, it will be worth the wait. However, the key word in all of this is ‘if’, because there are numerous questions regarding the [...]
Overeem And Werdum On Weight, Ready For Clash
Main Event: Alistair Overeem (256 lbs.) vs. Fabricio Werdum (246 lbs.) Josh Barnett (256 lbs.) vs. Brett Rogers (258 lbs.) Jorge Masvidal (155 lbs.) vs. KJ Noons (156 lbs.) Chad Griggs (234 lbs.) vs. Valentijn Overeem (234.5 lbs.) Jeff Monson (234 lbs.) vs. Daniel Cormier (239.5 lbs.) Undercard: Gesias Cavalacante (155 lbs.) vs. Justin Wilcox [...]
Fabricio Werdum Plans To Unify Heavyweight Titles, Talks GP Final With Barnett
June 26, 2010 was very similar to May 29, 1453, the day that Constantinople fell. June 26 was the day that the Last Emperor fell to defeat similar to that of Constantine XI Palaiologos the last emperor of Rome. Both battles saw the emperor charge into battle with little hesitation and both ended with the [...]
Strikeforce: Overeem vs Werdum VIDEO Predictions
The Strikeforce: Overeem vs Werdum event will finally take place this Saturday, June 18th, after being delayed for 2 months. Only two quarterfinal bouts remain in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament before the Heavyweight King will be crowned! Be sure to tune into Showtime at 10pm ET as this event will definitely host some [...]
Michael Guymon “Once Werdum Takes It To The Ground, It Is Submission Time!”
You’re sitting at the Poker table with all your cash being pushed forward to the center of the table. Yeah that’s right it’s all in time. Every dollar you own is now in the middle of the table, you lay down your cards only to realize that yes you just lost everything attached to your [...]
Brandon Vera Predicts Strikeforce Grand Prix “My Money is on Overeem, he is on fire!”
This Saturday, Strikeforce will be descending upon Dallas, Texas to drop the second round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix. In the first round we saw the man who at one point was seen as invincible, Fedor Emelianenko lose to Antonio “Big Foot” Silva in one of the biggest upsets of the year. Silva will [...]
Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum Tickets On Sale This Week
Zuffa officials announced that tickets for the highly anticipated heavyweight clash between Fabricio Werdum vs. Alistair Overeem will go on sale this week. The bout which takes place on June 18th, will take place at The American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. April 15th will mark the day that tickets go on sale to the [...]
Strikeforce Fan Experience Kicks Off Tuesday
Strikeforce will hold free fan events in New York and New Jersey beginning Tuesday with back-to-back events in downtown Manhattan and culminating Saturday with a sensational fight card highlighted by the return of Fedor Emelianenko and the beginning of the eagerly anticipated Strikeforce Heavyweight Tournament live on Showtime (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West [...]
Werdum Comments On Cyborg Loss, Says He Will Tap Overeem’s Other Arm
Strikeforce started 2011 with a bang as this past Saturday’s Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg card was one of superb match making. The four fights on the main card provided finishes and plenty of back and forth action. As always, Strikeforce brings out the creme de la creme at their fights and this one was no [...]
Fedor renews contract, Overeem, Werdum and others to participate in Strikeforce heavyweight tournament
STRIKEFORCE and M-1 GLOBAL have signed a new, multi-year agreement with Fedor “The Last Emperor” Emelianenko (31-2, 1 NC). In addition, STRIKEFORCE has assembled eight of the world’s top ranked heavyweights to compete in the STRIKEFORCE World Grand Prix – Heavyweight Tournament, a three-stage, single-elimination tournament that will take place over several events in 2011. [...]
Werdum to Brock Lesnar “I will beat you without even punching you!”
You are always finding out little things here and there being involved in the fight game. The more and more you cover the game, the more human these athletes become. You begin to see the human side of them, and the insecurities and vulnerabilities they have. It makes you really wonder at times that they [...]
Strikeforce Heavyweight Shane Del Rosario on his amateur career, top SF heavyweight and Cain Velasquez
Fight Hub TV recently took a trip down to Thousand Oaks courtesy of the Combat Fight League to check out some pretty exciting amateur fights as special guests. The night did not disappoint with special guest appearances by actor Tyler Mane, who by the way looks like a real life Viking, UFC star Travis “Hapa” [...]
Fight Hub TV Vault: When his career ends, the UFC will regret not signing Fedor
So at a recent event in Hollywood, CA our cameras and fight correspondent Marcos Villegas had the chance to speak with mma legend, Fedor Emelianenko. On all accounts we can say it was quiet strange and insightful talking to someone as mystifying as Fedor. Given the language barrier, Fedor does understand the English language. It [...]
StrikeForce Fedor vs. Werdum results
Fabricio Werdum def Fedor Emelianenko via triangle choke in R1 Cung Le def Scott Smith via TKO in R2 (1:46) Cris Cyborg def Jan Finney via TKO in R2 (2:56) Josh Thonson def. Pat Healy via rear naked choke in R3 (4:27) In the Undercard: Chris Cope def. Ron Keslar via TKO in R2 (4:32) [...]