Radach to fill Walker spot on Dec 4th.

Benji Radach to fight on December 4th vs Lucas Lopez, replacing Walker-Carson

With heavyweight Herschel Walker forced out of his planned December 4 Strikeforce bout with WEC veteran Scott Carson due to a deep cut he sustained training with Daniel Cormier on Friday, a light heavyweight scrap between usual middleweights Lucas Lopes and Benji Radach has been put together at the last minute to help fill in the dwindling Henderson vs. Babalu fight card.

Earlier in the week yet-to-be matched up Jesse Finney, who was originally slated to face Scott Smith before "Hands of Steel" was instead matched up with Strikeforce newcomer Paul Daley, was forced to bow out of the event due to an eye injury.

Sources close to the situation told CagePotato.com Thursday that*Lopes (19-10), who is one of*Finney's training partners and holds a win over UFC standout Thiago Alves, has agreed to face Radach on the card. Radach (20-5), whose record includes wins over Murilo Rua and Gerald Harris, hasn't fought since being knocked out by Smith last year, but he is a crafty veteran Lopes would regret taking lightly.*

Another source we spoke to informed us that Strikeforce was unable to find a suitable opponent in time for Carson, so the 4-1 veteran whose return to MMA after a nine-year absence in June was spoiled by a first round knock out by Lorenz Larkin.

That's actually a pretty good matchup.

KingsOwn19 wrote:

That's actually a pretty good matchup.

a much better matchup for real fans, no doubt.

Benji vs Ovince St Preux. The guy that looked pretty good in beating Britt just a couple weeks back.

Funny how much better this card got because of the injuries.

http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/...ory?id=5866237

so what will be the weight difference aprox.

Well Ovince fights at 205, while Radach who normally is a 185, was supposedly going to try his hand at 205.

That's awesome. Ovince is on a nice streak knocking out Day and controlling Britt. I think he'll beat Radach.

This is a shorter turnaround than even Leben's isn't it?

Anyway, I'm taking St Preux as well

Ovince will get 1 more day of rest then Leben did.