Paul Daley to Face Winner of Diaz/Cyborg, But First Headlines BAMMA Show in England

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Strikeforce welterweight contender Paul Daley is getting ready to head back into action, but this time it will be in his home country of England.

Daley has been approved to headline an upcoming show for the British run MMA organization BAMMA, and is expected to be part of the the main event of their show in February.

Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker confirmed the news to MMAWeekly Radio on Wednesday night.

“Paul has requested to have a fight in the UK, and our deal with Paul we have to sign off on it, and we have to have an opponent approval,” Coker stated.

The opponent for Daley has not been finalized, although MMAWeekly.com has confirmed several names are on the list. Coker said much the same, and believes they could have final word about Daley’s opponent in the next few days.

“There’s a couple names and we’re going through that process with him. He wants to stay busy and he wants to fight the winner of (Nick) Diaz and Evangelista (Cyborg), and I think that makes a lot of sense,” said Coker.

Daley’s one-off fight in the UK will keep him busy to kick off 2011, but according to the Strikeforce president if he wins he will be fighting the winner of the upcoming fight between Diaz and Cyborg set to go down on Jan 29.

Coker simply said ‘yes’ when asked if he is the de facto No. 1 contender for the title, and he will be waiting in the wings when the welterweight title fight is settled next Saturday night.

MMAWeekly.com will have more information on Daley’s opponent in BAMMA when it becomes available

http://mmaweekly.com/paul-daley-to-face-winner-of-diazcyborg-but-first-headlines-bamma-show-in-england

Yeah Daley should probably get next shot, most likely he'll face Diaz, I'd pick Nick but give Daley a shot at rocking Nick and getting the finish.

yea, ill take Nick to win it as long as he can stay clear of Daleys power shots

i wouldnt be surprised at all if Daley was to KO him though

and were completely overlooking Cyborg lol, dude can bang

I have a feeling Cyborg is going to pull the upset but regardless these would be 2 solid fights back to back in what is a pretty stale division for SF

bobbitt15 wrote:

I have a feeling Cyborg is going to pull the upset but regardless these would be 2 solid fights back to back in what is a pretty stale division for SF

how is Diaz vs Daley a stale matchup?

captain organic wrote:

bobbitt15 wrote:

I have a feeling Cyborg is going to pull the upset but regardless these would be 2 solid fights back to back in what is a pretty stale division for SF

how is Diaz vs Daley a stale matchup?

He didn't say that fight was stale, he said just the opposite. He said that is a solid fight in what is a stale divison for SF.

aight read it wrong, however......

When the division has exciting fighters on the level of Daley and Diaz, as well as exciting fighters on the level of Cyborg, Smith, Voelker, Tarec,(hopefully Siyar at some point soon), when we just had a title fight featuring Noons vs Diaz, Im not calling it stale.


And Woodley probably offers Diaz the tougher stylistic matchup of either Daley or Cyborg.

Easily tougher stylistically

And there's exciting and there's good.

LA wrote:

Easily tougher stylistically

And there's exciting and there's good.

Is Tarec not a talented striker?

Is Woodley not a talented wrestler?

Daley and Diaz are both top 10.

The division is pretty good.

Woodley was not mentioned, wouldn't he fit against your "exciting" fighter criteria?

And the division is pretty weak sauce, lets be real here.

weak when compared to the UFC but insofar as WW's go it's the best division outside the UFC with a nod to the boatload of contenders in Bellator.

Well it's kind of easy to be the best WW division outside the UFC, isn't many other big Orgs around, but in genral, I'm with Bobbit, pretty stale division.

SF WW division is "pretty stale" at best. It's pretty damn weak.

OU wrote:

SF WW division is "pretty stale" at best. It's pretty damn weak.

OH SNAP SON! when did you become a goldie?

killerofchicken wrote:

OU wrote:

SF WW division is "pretty stale" at best. It's pretty damn weak.

OH SNAP SON! when did you become a goldie?

It wush an unfortunate shmelting acshident

Ludo wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

OU wrote:

SF WW division is "pretty stale" at best. It's pretty damn weak.

OH SNAP SON! when did you become a goldie?

It wush an unfortunate shmelting acshident

LOL

captain organic wrote:

bobbitt15 wrote:

I have a feeling Cyborg is going to pull the upset but regardless these would be 2 solid fights back to back in what is a pretty stale division for SF

how is Diaz vs Daley a stale matchup?

I'm saying Diaz/Cyborg and then winner vs Daley are 2 good matchups. I'm not buying the rest of that division that they've got right now

WW is a prime example of the MMA community not giving props to SF for going out finding their own young talent and building from within.


Woodley, Coy, Voelker, Bowling Saffeidine, these are all talented young fighters, yet because they are not proving their worth under the UFC banner they are not viewed as having much worth at all.

LA wrote:

Woodley was not mentioned, wouldn't he fit against your "exciting" fighter criteria?

And the division is pretty weak sauce, lets be real here.

I kept him out of the "exciting" group for a reason. But u brought up good, and woodley is good. At least under current MMA scoring he is.

captain organic wrote:

WW is a prime example of the MMA community not giving props to SF for going out finding their own young talent and building from within.


Woodley, Coy, Voelker, Bowling Saffeidine, these are all talented young fighters, yet because they are not proving their worth under the UFC banner they are not viewed as having much worth at all.

You can turn this into a "UFC fanboy" issue if you choose to do so, I stand by the fact that right now its a weak division. Even the champ thinks so

I dont think the division is as weak as most think but the problem is alot of these young guys dont have names yet. Until they are built up alittle more alot of people will think the division is weaker than it really is.

bobbitt15 wrote:

captain organic wrote:

WW is a prime example of the MMA community not giving props to SF for going out finding their own young talent and building from within.


Woodley, Coy, Voelker, Bowling Saffeidine, these are all talented young fighters, yet because they are not proving their worth under the UFC banner they are not viewed as having much worth at all.

You can turn this into a "UFC fanboy" issue if you choose to do so, I stand by the fact that right now its a weak division. Even the champ thinks so

do u really want to use the ultra intellectual thoughts of Nick Diaz as a basis for your argument?

captain organic wrote:

bobbitt15 wrote:

captain organic wrote:

WW is a prime example of the MMA community not giving props to SF for going out finding their own young talent and building from within.


Woodley, Coy, Voelker, Bowling Saffeidine, these are all talented young fighters, yet because they are not proving their worth under the UFC banner they are not viewed as having much worth at all.

You can turn this into a "UFC fanboy" issue if you choose to do so, I stand by the fact that right now its a weak division. Even the champ thinks so

do u really want to use the ultra intellectual thoughts of Nick Diaz as a basis for your argument?

Absolutely

timthebim wrote:

I dont think the division is as weak as most think but the problem is alot of these young guys dont have names yet. Until they are built up alittle more alot of people will think the division is weaker than it really is.

The problem is most of these guys are at a certain level. And that level shouldn't be near title fights, atleast right now

bobbitt15 wrote:

timthebim wrote:

I dont think the division is as weak as most think but the problem is alot of these young guys dont have names yet. Until they are built up alittle more alot of people will think the division is weaker than it really is.

The problem is most of these guys are at a certain level. And that level shouldn't be near title fights, atleast right now

I agree most of them arent ready for title fights yet but that doesnt mean the potential to be very good isnt there.