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Post by DUCE on Oct 15, 2007 9:19:42 GMT -5
THE CARD
Cung Le(4-0) vs. Sam Morgan(19-8)
Loved this fight. Cung Le by KO in the 3rd. Would have rather seen him in the tournament.
Tournament Final
Jorge Santiago(15-7) vs. Trevor Prangley(17-4)
JORGE again with the knees! KO 1st round. Lets see it! Jorge Santiago vs. Frank Shamrock
To become the first ever Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion
Paul “The Headhunter” Buentello (23-9) and Alistair “The Demolition Man” Overeem (25-11-1)
Overeem by submission in the 2nd round
“Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” match (4 man tournament at 2 rounds 2 minutes each)
Yuki Sasaki(21-13-1) Sean Salmon(14-4) vs Jorge Santiago(14-7)
Jorge KO'd Salmon quick!
Trevor Prangley(16-4) vs Falaniko Vitale(24-7)
Trevor wins via decision after a fight ending unintentional foul
winner gets titleshot against Frank Shamrock
Brian “The Mad Stork” Schwartz (0-0) vs Lemont Davis (8-4) 175 lbs
undefeated kick boxer debutes
Lemont Davis by decision. He spoiled Schwartz's debute. Alright fight. The mad Stork was more like the green stork.
non title
Bobby Southworth(8-4) vs Anthony Ruiz (17-10)
ANTHONY RUIZ tko via cuts in the second round. Vicious combo cut Bobby's face up. Southworth really schooled him early with a mount but couldn't get the rear naked choke. Ruiz buries the Strikeforce 205 title with that. Babalu and Southworth were suppose to fight in March for the title but who knows what will happen...
Luke Stewart (4-0) vs. Bryson Kamaka (5-8)
Stewart by TKO but he dropped a knee to the head afterwards when they both were down. Which is illegal.
Josh Neal (2-1) vs. Eric Lawson(3-1)
Lawson by rear naked choke round 2
Pete Sabala (2-4) vs. Anthony Figueroa (3-1)
Anthony Figueroa wins via split decision
Alex Crispin (0-1) vs. Clint Coronel (2-3)
CRISPIN wins unanimous decision
Strikeforce Tournament to Include Joe Riggs (Story from Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Kevin Iole on October 15, 2007 at 9:08 am ET
At least for one night, the tournament format is back in mixed martial arts.
Scott Coker, who promoted numerous tournaments when he helped promote K-1 kickboxing shows, will stage a four-man tournament to determine the No. 1 challenger for the Strikeforce middleweight title on Nov. 16 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.
Coker said he has signed Joe Riggs (27-9) and Niko Vitale (24-7) to compete in the tournament and is working on landing two others.
In addition, the California Athletic Commission has required him to sign two alternates who can step in and compete in the final if one of the winners in the first round is unable to continue because of injury.
The prize, Coker hopes, will be a shot at the biggest name on the Strikeforce fighter roster, champion Frank Shamrock.
Shamrock, who has fought twice this year, hasn’t agreed to fight the winner, Coker said. Shamrock has his eye on a 2008 fight with Renzo Gracie in what would be a rematch of a Feb. 10 match in which Shamrock was disqualified for kneeing a downed opponent in the head.
Shamrock also has asked Coker about making a fight between himself and Cung Le sometime next year. But Coker remains optimistic he can give the winner a chance to fight the biggest name in the Strikeforce stable for the title.
“It is my hope that the winner can fight Frank, and I’ve talked with him about that,” Coker said.
Coker said Strikeforce plans to use the tournament format extensively going forward. He said he plans to have tournaments for the heavyweight and lightweight titles sometime in 2008.
Tournaments were popular in the early days of MMA but have been frowned on by state athletic commissions. Coker said he had been asking Armando Garcia, the executive officer of the California Athletic Commission, for permission to do a tournament for eight months before Garcia relented.
“They’re very popular with the fans,” Coker said. “It’s a fantastic way for the fans to see who the champion is going to be or who is going to face the champion in the same night. And talking to some of the guys, I think they like the idea, too.“
Strikeforce will stream the event’s main card live on Yahoo! Sports (www.sports.yahoo.com), beginning at 8 PM PST (11 PM EST). The stream will be available to all internet users located beyond a 150 mile radius of San Jose.
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Post by DUCE on Oct 21, 2007 16:33:31 GMT -5
‘Head Hunter' To Face Overeem for Strikeforce Belt www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=9590Sunday, October 21, 2007 Veteran Paul Buentello announced that he will face Dutch striker Alistair Overeem for the vacant Strikeforce heavyweight title on Nov. 16 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. Buentello, 33, has claimed four consecutive wins since being stopped in the first round by Andrei Arlovski at UFC 55 in Oct. of 2005. With a mixed marital arts career that spans more than a decade, the Amarillo, Texas, native has claimed 16 knockouts while racking up a record of 23-9-0. "Yes, it's going to be another striking war, but that's fine with me," Buentello declared in a video newsletter. "All I got to do is hit him before he hits me." Overeem, 25-11-0, recently suffered a disappointing technical knockout at the hands of Russian Sergei Kharitonov for the K-1 HERO's promotion on Sep. 17. It has been on a rough stretch of late for the veteran, dropping four of his last five bouts. The 27-year-old has had his best success at 205 pounds, but has competed at heavyweight numerous times in his career with mixed results. Nov. 16's card will also feature California's first sanctioned one-night tournament, which touts to crown a 185-pound contender for Frank Shamrock's Strikeforce middleweight crown. Faliniko Vitale has been the only fighter announced in the four-man draw. Potential participants include Trevor Prangley, Yuki Sasaki , Joe Riggs and Jorge Santiago. Expected to compete on the card in non-tournament bouts are Cung Le (who is rumored to fight Kazuo Misaki, Luke Stewart, and promotional light heavyweight champion Bobby Southworth . |
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Post by Cosmic Crippler on Oct 21, 2007 16:59:02 GMT -5
I love how guys like Buentello and Overeem (sp?) have a chance to shine in these promotions. I think MMA fans are getting a little too spoiled with the UFC and the late Pride. They see top teir guys beat someone and assume the loser has nothing to offer. With Strike Force, we get Ninja Rua, Riggs, Buentello, Lawler, Baroni, and many more. These guys ahve a ton of talent and heart and it's good to see them have an arena to compete in.
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Post by habbalah on Oct 22, 2007 2:30:58 GMT -5
I'm kinda hoping Paul puts him down.
Overeem never seems to go any where after a win. Buentello's been doing fairly well in and out of the ufc. I hope this continues.
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Post by DUCE on Oct 22, 2007 17:46:10 GMT -5
Strikeforce announced Sunday the field for its Nov. 16 four-man middleweight tournament at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., tabbing Trevor Prangley, Yuki Sasaki, Jorge Santiago and Falaniko Vitale for the first one-night tourney sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission.
Bracket matchups are expected to be released in the coming days.
Each tournament bout will consist of two, two-minute rounds. If the judges score a draw, an additional period will be added to the clash to determine a winner.
What the... two two minute rounds? They better have some killer tempo coming in.
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Post by habbalah on Oct 24, 2007 0:38:41 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be comedy if none of them went the distance?
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Post by hofclemens on Oct 29, 2007 20:26:30 GMT -5
Pal vs Overeem is a fight I am actually looking forward to.
I dont get the tourney. Why not do 3 4 minute rounds? It would still be less amount of ring time then a championship. I mean why even do the tourney at this point?
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Post by Cosmic Crippler on Oct 30, 2007 14:56:33 GMT -5
Yeah, Im not a fan of the shorter rounds but this does look like one good card. I am a fan of Buentello, Overeem, Santiago and Prangley. Will have to watch this one.
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Post by DUCE on Oct 30, 2007 21:52:42 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be comedy if none of them went the distance? ;D |
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Post by DUCE on Nov 5, 2007 7:16:34 GMT -5
October 30, 2007
Michael Afromowitz (muaythaimes@aol.com)
Undefeated World Light Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion Brian “The Mad Stork” Schwartz (18-0) will step in the cage for the first time in his 16-year professional fighting career to face Lemont Davis (8-4) in a 175 lb. limit matchup during the Strikeforce “Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” mixed martial arts mega-card at San Jose’s HP Pavilion on Friday, November 16th.
“I’m really loving training right now, which is good, because, at the end of my (kickboxing) career, I was a little burnt out and wasn’t training like I should. Since I’ve been back, though, I just got that fire again,” said the 33-year-old Schwartz, who originally closed the book on his fight career after stopping New York’s Michael Corleone in the fifth round of their kickboxing matchup in San Jose on October 21, 2005.
According to the 6 foot 3 inch Foster City, California native, it was watching a number of young mixed martial arts contenders at work in Schwartz’s new Undisputed Boxing Gym that inspired him to take on a new challenge in the world’s fastest growing sport. “I’m training hard in the gym and my road work has been really good,” he said. “Everything it should be like when you train is happening for me right now.”
After taking up Tae Kwon Do at the age of five, Schwartz went on to join the professional Sport Karate circuit and, later, became one of the most dominant superstars in full-contact rules kickboxing, a hybrid sport combining Karate and western boxing. With the help of former world boxing and kickboxing champion, Eddie Croft, Schwartz finally realized his longtime dream on November 12, 2004 when he captured the International Sport Karate Association (ISKA) World Super Middleweight Full-Contact Kickboxing Championship by earning a 12 round unanimous judges’ decision over four-time kickboxing champion, Tom “The Bee” Bottone, at San Jose’s Civic Auditorium.
The greatest challenge that comes with any stand-up fighter’s transition to mixed martial arts, of course, is the ability to adapt to the grappling element of the sport. With this in mind, Team Schwartz has been working with the likes of UFC veteran, Tim Lajcik. “It’s very different from what I’m used to,” admitted Schwartz, “but we spend a lot of time on takedown defense and, if you get taken down, how to stand back up.”
Schwartz’s first mixed martial arts opponent, Davis, also boasts a rich background in striking, a factor that led to his recruitment two years ago with Chuck Norris’s World Combat League (WCL). Still a competitor in the organization, the 30-year-old three-time kickboxing champion, who hails from Greenville, North Carolina, has seen action in four WCL events to date.
At 5 feet 8 inches tall, Davis will be at a significant height disadvantage in the matchup with Schwartz. His experience in mixed martial arts where he has 12 bouts under his belt, however, makes Davis a clear-cut threat to his opponent if the fight goes to the mat. “When he tries to throw something long, I’ll try to scoop him and take him down to the ground,” said Davis.
Schwartz will become the second world champion from Strikeforce’s kickboxing roster to cross over to the sport of mixed martial arts. On March 10th of last year, World Light Heavyweight San Shou Champion, Cung Le, made his long-awaited debut in the cage and stopped rival Mike Altman during a featured contest on the Strikeforce’s “Shamrock vs. Gracie” affair, the first-ever sanctioned mixed martial arts event in the state of California. Presented by BodogFIGHT, Strikeforce “Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” will be headlined by the first-ever sanctioned mixed martial arts tournament in the state of California. Slated to compete in the four-man middleweight (185 lb. limit) playoff are Trevor Prangley (16-4), Falaniko Vitale (24-7), Yuki Sasaki (21-13-1), and Jorge Santiago (14-7).
Each tournament bout will consist of two, five-minute rounds. Brackets for the single-elimination event have yet to be determined.
In other action, heavyweight superstars Paul “The Headhunter” Buentello (23-9) and Alistair “The Demolition Man” Overeem (25-11) will battle to become the first Strikeforce World Heavyweight Mixed Martial Arts Champion in history.
Tickets for the Strikeforce extravaganza are on sale at Ticketmaster (408-998-TIXS) and Ticketmaster online (www.ticketmaster.com) as well as at the HP Pavilion box office (408-287-7070). Ticket prices range from $30 to $200.
HP Pavilion doors will open for Strikeforce “Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” at 5:30 PM PST on Friday, November 16th. The first preliminary bout will begin at 6 PM and the first tournament bout will commence at 7:30 PM.
plus Cung Le who is undefeated in four MMA bouts, will confront "The Ultimate Fighter 2" cast member Sam Morgan in a three-round middleweight fight.
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Post by DUCE on Nov 5, 2007 7:29:51 GMT -5
This card looks good.
Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship
Paul “The Headhunter” Buentello (23-9) and Alistair “The Demolition Man” Overeem (25-11
“Four Men Enter, One Man Survives” match (4 man tournament at 2 rounds 2 minutes each)
Trevor Prangley (16-4), Falaniko Vitale (24-7), Yuki Sasaki (21-13-1), and Jorge Santiago (14-7)
winner gets titleshot against Frank Shamrock
Cung Le(4-0) vs. Sam Morgan(18-8)
Brian “The Mad Stork” Schwartz (0-0) vs Lemont Davis (8-4) 175 lbs
undefeated kick boxer debutes
Lightheavyweight champshionship
Bobby Southworth(8-4) vs TBA
Luke Stewart (4-0) vs. TBA
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Post by DUCE on Nov 12, 2007 17:03:11 GMT -5
The tournament semis are;
Yuki Sasaki vs Falaniko Vitale
Trevor Prangley vs Jorge Santiago
I'd say Vitale and Prangley look like they are good picks to be in the finals. Jorge Santiago has a mean streak though. Andre Semenov doesn't get ko'd easy.
Jorge is the dark horse and Trevor would be the favorite.
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Post by DUCE on Nov 15, 2007 20:34:38 GMT -5
Its free. Friday night streaming to your computer. yahoo sports sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/mma_experts/post/Y-Fight-Night-Strikeforce;_ylt=AgXVNVYiiuB1E2XmXRNuaGI9Eo14?urn=mma,53671 By Y! Sports Staff Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007 2:06 pm EST We're pleased to announce that Y! Sports Fight Night returns on Friday night, as we will offer an exclusive stream of Strikeforce live from the HP Pavillion in San Jose. This card will feature the first one-night MMA tournament in California since the state sanctioned the sport. Trevor Prangley, Falainko Vitale, Yuki Sasaki and Jorge Santiago will compete in matches consisting of two, five-minute rounds. The winners will fight in the final later in the evening. The semifinal matchups will be determined by random draw on Friday. Also, the first Strikeforce heavyweight champion will be crowned in a battle of veterans, as Paul "The Headhunter" Buentello takes on Alistair Overeem. Other fighters of note on the show include the sensational Cung Le and Bobby Southworth. The live stream will not be available to viewers living within 150-mile radius of San Jose. You guys can go to the live show. But for everyone else, stop by Friday night and enjoy another free Y! Sports Fight Night. |
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Post by DUCE on Nov 16, 2007 15:09:30 GMT -5
Paul Buentello (Pictures) (250) vs. Alistair Overeem (Pictures) (224)
Yuki Sasaki (Pictures) (183.75) vs. Jorge Santiago (Pictures) (184)
Trevor Prangley (Pictures) (185) vs. Falaniko Vitale (Pictures) (185)
Dennis Hallman (Pictures) (183) vs. Sean Salmon (Pictures) (185)
Cung Le (Pictures) (181) vs. Sam Morgan (Pictures) (177.75)
Lemont Davis (171.75) vs. Brian Schwartz (167)
Anthony Ruiz (Pictures) (204) vs. Bobby Southworth (Pictures) (204)
Luke Stewart (Pictures) (171) vs. Bryson Kamaka (Pictures) (169)
Josh Neal (Pictures) (186) vs. Eric Lawson (184)
Pete Sabala (Pictures) (137) vs. Anthony Figueroa (Pictures) (132)
Alex Crispin (155.5) vs. Clint Coronel (Pictures) (154.75)
Chris Drumm (145.5) vs. Evan Esguerra (145)
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Post by DUCE on Nov 16, 2007 22:15:04 GMT -5
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Post by DUCE on Nov 16, 2007 22:15:43 GMT -5
There are three other matches on the livesteam.
• A lightweight battle of former kickboxing champions who are making their pro MMA debuts pits Brian "The Stork" Schwartz, who is 6-3 and 167 pounds, against Lemont Davis, at 171 3/4 pounds. Schwartz has never fought MMA before after specializing in full-contact kickboxing, which means no low kicks, where he was at one-time an ISKA world champion.
Davis, who has fought amateur MMA and is considered the stronger of the two if it goes to the ground, recently fought in Chuck Norris' World Combat League, a kickboxing team promotion.
• Bobby Southworth (8-4), infamous for being one of the villains on the first season of "The Ultimate Fighter", faces Anthony Ruiz (17-10). Southworth is the Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, but this is a three-round non-title match. The current plan is for Southworth to defend his title on March 29th against Renato "Babalu" Sobral. Both men weighed in at 204 pounds.
• Luke Stewart (4-0), a San Francisco based fighter and Ralph Gracie black belt, faces Bryson Kamaka (5-8), a Hawaiian based stand-up fighter. Stewart weighed in at 171 to 169 for Kamaka.
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Post by DUCE on Nov 16, 2007 23:06:40 GMT -5
"Lets bring it" -Cecil Peoples
Sean Salmon victim of another highlight heel. JORGE IS ON A TEAR
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Post by DUCE on Nov 16, 2007 23:22:05 GMT -5
the tourny fights have FIVE minute rounds
Prangley scrapes Vitale's eye in the 2nd round. Good fight until that happened.
Prangley vs. Jorge. No shock. Jorge looks golden... I'm pullin for him
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Post by DUCE on Nov 17, 2007 0:50:16 GMT -5
Overeem outclassing and almost destroying Paul in the first 10-8(even though Cecil Peoples is scoring it the fight even he could see this). Overeem had a sick looking guillotine during the 1st. Then Paul taps to body punches.
Overeem knocks the headhunter out of my heavyweight top twenty.
Jorge Santiago has got four big wins in a row and you can't but think a win against Frank Shamrock will get the UFC wanting to see the new Jorge Santiago.
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Post by habbalah on Nov 21, 2007 20:26:29 GMT -5
Who wants to see more free online shows like this one?
Nice little card.
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