Strikeforce June 18 fight card

Alistair Overeem vs Fabricio Werdum (heavyweight grand-prix opening round)
Josh Barnett vs Brett Rogers (heavyweight grand-prix opening round)
Gina Carano vs TBA
Daniel Cormier vs Shane Del Rosario
Chad Griggs vs Valentijn Overeem

Cormier vs Del Rosario should be a good fight.

Not a bad card at all

Yeah 3 good HW fights.

those are all locked in?


good stuff if so.

When the hell was SDR-Cormier announced?

bobbitt15 wrote:

When the hell was SDR-Cormier announced?

Tonight I guess.

bobbitt15 wrote:

When the hell was SDR-Cormier announced?

On the broadcast.

bobbitt15 wrote:

When the hell was SDR-Cormier announced?

Just saw it tonight during the show. I was surprised to see it.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/23184/june-18-strikeforce-event-adds-carano-del-rosario-vs-cormier-overeem-vs-griggs.mma

Three main-card bouts have been added to Strikeforce's June 18 event, which already features two opening-round matchups in the organization's heavyweight grand prix.

The Showtime-televised event marks the long-awaited return of Gina Carano (7-1 MMA, 0-1 SF), who meets an opponent to be announced.

Additionally, heavyweight bouts of Shane Del Rosario (11-0 MMA, 3-0 SF) vs. Daniel Cormier (7-0 MMA, 4-0 SF) and Valentijn Overeem (29-25 MMA, 1-0 SF) vs. Chad Griggs (10-1 MMA, 2-0 SF) have been added.

The event previously was announced to be taking place at American Airlines Center in Dallas. Officials announced the full main card as part of Saturday's "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley" event but didn't confirm the venue.

Carano hasn't fought since August 2009, when she suffered a first-round TKO loss to Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos for Strikeforce's first-ever 145-pound women's title. Since then, Carano, who opened her career with seven consecutive wins, has filmed a role for the Steven Soderbergh film "Haywire."

Del Rosario, meanwhile, recently competed in a grand-prix reserve bout and submitted Lavar Johnson. It was his 11th stoppage win in 11 career fights and his 10th to come in the first round. He now meets Olympian Cormier, a two-time JUCO national wrestling champion and 2001 Division I runner-up. Since his move to MMA, he's 7-0 with six stoppage wins. Most recently, Cormier scored a decision victory over Devin Cole at Strikeforce Challengers 13.

Valentijn Overeem recently made his Strikeforce debut and picked up his third consecutive win with a first-round submission victory over Ray Sefo in a grand-prix reserve bout. He meets Griggs, who recently out-slugged Gianpiero Villante in a tourney-reserve bout for a TKO victory. Griggs, who upset Bobby Lashley in his promotional debut, now has won five straight.

In addition to those bouts, the June 18 event features the final two opening-round matchups in the heavyweight grand prix. Josh Barnett (26-5 MMA, 0-0 SF) and Brett Rogers (11-2 MMA, 2-2 SF) fight for the right to meet Sergei Kharitonov in the semifinals, and heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem (34-11 MMA, 3-0 SF) faces Fabricio Werdum (14-4-1 MMA, 3-0 SF) for the right to fight Antonio Silva.

Who losses their undefeated streak?

Neither looked very good in there last fight but SDR looked alittle better.

Not nearly as good as it was a few weeks ago.

I hate that Gina is on this card. She is a female Kimbo imo. Cyborg proved Gina was all hype and not a real fighter.

Gina is a real fighter and a skilled one however cyborg proved she wasnt the best. It wasnt ginas fault a fight between her and cyborg took sf so long to put together. This can also be said about alot of male fighters. Look at eddie alvarez. Some claim he is possibly the best lw out ther yet the guy has never finished an opponent in the top 5 let alone beat one. Not only that. He prefers fighting 2nd string lws instead of testing himself against some of the best. I like eddie and im entertained in his fights ,dont think im hating but really,im just calling it like it is. Gina was beating and destroying other true fighters but its not as if she was exposed, she just hadnt faced the elites in the division

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

I hate that Gina is on this card. She is a female Kimbo imo. Cyborg proved Gina was all hype and not a real fighter.

Because she couldn't beat Cyborg?

The talent level and depth in womens MMA is not like mens MMA. There is a huge gap in a dedicated top fighter like Cyborg and a chick like Gina, yet she is taking up space on a main card when she shouldn't be. Gina has beat a bunch of nobodies that couldn't come close to giving Cyborg a fight. She is a pretty face for womens MMA and that is the reason she is on the main card. I would rather watch one of the fights that wont get shown because of this one.

That's what I thought muthafuckaz!

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

The talent level and depth in womens MMA is not like mens MMA. There is a huge gap in a dedicated top fighter like Cyborg and a chick like Gina, yet she is taking up space on a main card when she shouldn't be. Gina has beat a bunch of nobodies that couldn't come close to giving Cyborg a fight. She is a pretty face for womens MMA and that is the reason she is on the main card. I would rather watch one of the fights that wont get shown because of this one.

When you are there in person, it doesn't really matter what order they play them in. You get to see them all. UFC 103 in Dallas had some nice undercard fights.

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Alistair Overeem vs. Fabricio Werdum
Josh Barnett vs. Brett Rogers
Gina Carano vs. TBA
Daniel Cormier vs. Shane Del Rosario
Chad Griggs vs. Valentijn Overeem

This will be a monster show. Hope they give Gina Nunes. That would be a great Standup fight.

Only bad thing is that is the next main SF card. 2+ months out. Thankfully Bellator should be getting real good between now and then, not that it hasn't mostly been so already.

http://www.mmamania.com/2011/4/11/2105192/king-mo-lawal-vs-ovince-st-preux-fight-booked-for-strikeforce-overeem
"King" Mo Lawal will begin his journey to reclaim his light heavyweight title when he takes on the red-hot, up-and-coming Ovince St. Preux at Strikeforce: "Overeem vs. Werdum," which is slated for the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on June 18, 2011.

UPDATE
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/4/11/2105297/strikeforce-overeem-vs-werdum-poster-for-june-18th
BE Radio Analyst, Forrest Lynn says King Mo vs. St. Preux is NOT happening

UPDATE
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/4/11/2105297/strikeforce-overeem-vs-werdum-poster-for-june-18th
BE Radio Analyst, Forrest Lynn says King Mo vs. St. Preux is NOT happening