Werdum vs Big foot and Mousasi vs Soko or Filho slated for Nov 7th

Looks like this card is going to be fucking awesome. I'm so glad I got tickets to this fight.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/10/7/1074705/rumored-opponents-for-werdum-and#comments

So the Rumored card so far:
Fedor vs Rogers
Shields vs Mayhem
Mousasi vs Soko/Filho
Werdum vs Bigfoot
Lashley vs Waterman
Lawler vs TBA
Lindland vs TBA
Jacare vs TBA
Jesse Taylor vs Rockholdt

Now I would think they would save at least a couple of these guys for other shows. Currently though these have been all the names that have been thrown around for this card so far with many of them being confirmed.

Werdum-Big Foot, would be dope, i'll be rooting Silva for I believe he'd provide a much bigger challenge to Fedor.

Just having Gegard on the card is also excellent, Soko is one of the best possible non-ufc opponent so that would very cool too. If I have to live with watching Filho get beat down then I will happily.

CombatSports4Life wrote:

So the Rumored card so far:
Fedor vs Rogers
Shields vs Mayhem
Mousasi vs Soko/Filho
Werdum vs Bigfoot
Lashley vs Waterman
Lawler vs TBA
Lindland vs TBA
Jacare vs TBA
Jesse Taylor vs Rockholdt

Now I would think they would save at least a couple of these guys for other shows. Currently though these have been all the names that have been thrown around for this card so far with many of them being confirmed.

Yeah the december card would surely take some of those fights.

My guess would be at least one of the heavy weight fights.

But Dec could have Diaz Heiron, Melendez Thomson, Cyborg somebody, so that's pretty solid at the top already.

Seems like there is a ton in the air when the card is only 2 months away

Farmer1906 wrote:

Seems like there is a ton in the air when the card is only 2 months away

It's actually exactly one month today. Not sure what the strikeforce brass has been doing, but the nov 7th card should be set, they should now be working on the Dec card. One would think that with the card on CBS they'd have their ducks in a row, poorly handled thus far.

Cappy... Their hands are tied a bit due to lack of depth on the roster. They really need to be out signing every UFC castoff they can find right now...

LikesToFightGuy wrote:

Cappy... Their hands are tied a bit due to lack of depth on the roster. They really need to be out signing every UFC castoff they can find right now...

Lawler vs Villasenor
The Diaz situation should have been straightened out and a match vs Heiron locked in.
Werdum vs Abongo

They have guys.

They have guys, but they don't have enough depth to be making a truly interesting card every month if you ask me. Now if they want to pare it down some and only have 5-6 fights on a card they might make something workable.

Seriously, can you name more than 20 fighters on their roster? Can you name 20 that we know without looking up? They don't have a very deep roster at all, unless I've missed 15-20 signings this month...

One thing everyone needs to keep in mind is that they have Dream in their corner as well. Strikeforce may not have all the fighters themselves but with Dream they can probably afford to go all out on this card and Co-promote or fighter swap being able to put on new and interesting cards.

CombatSports4Life wrote:

One thing everyone needs to keep in mind is that they have Dream in their corner as well. Strikeforce may not have all the fighters themselves but with Dream they can probably afford to go all out on this card and Co-promote or fighter swap being able to put on new and interesting cards.

With the two together, they probably have enough names to put on the top-5 fights on cards and an undercard of decent match-ups... And they might have enough to do so monthly or at the very least every 6-8 weeks. Now if they can just find a way to make their belt holders fight...

wow that is stacked!.. no nick diaz? he wud be a huge personality to have for the first show on cbs

love of hate him fans will watch him

Anyone know why Diaz isn't fighting? He missed the last card as well.


Do we know if Big Foot has been cleared by the athletic commission?

redvexx8 wrote:

Anyone know why Diaz isn't fighting? He missed the last card as well.


Do we know if Big Foot has been cleared by the athletic commission?

He skipped a drug test last time. He keeps talking about trying to box. Who knows what's up with him? I just hope Hieron beats his ass.

redvexx8 wrote:

Anyone know why Diaz isn't fighting? He missed the last card as well.


Do we know if Big Foot has been cleared by the athletic commission?

Diaz missed the last card due to being stoned and too stupid to realize he needed to piss in a cup. I haven't heard why he isn't on this card though.

Silva's supsension should have ended 2 months ago...

And I echo Farmer's thoughts on Hieron if the two were to actually fight...

This is like their last big card -

Plan for 80 good fights using the entire roster and after 70% of them fall through you're left with just enough...

This is kind of like how the UFC used to build cards way back when

I think they'll save guys like Lindland, Lawler, Jacare, etc. for the December card.

If they were to get Lashley vs. Waterman onto the card, as well as Werdum vs. Bigfoot. You would be better off saving the rest of your names for December.

LikesToFightGuy wrote:

They have guys, but they don't have enough depth to be making a truly interesting card every month if you ask me. Now if they want to pare it down some and only have 5-6 fights on a card they might make something workable.

Seriously, can you name more than 20 fighters on their roster? Can you name 20 that we know without looking up? They don't have a very deep roster at all, unless I've missed 15-20 signings this month...

All right I take that challene.

Fedor
Werdum
Overeem
Rogers
Abongo
gracie
gegard
babalu
randleman
waterman
Lawler
shields
Villasenor
Kennedy
Melendez
Thomson
heiron
gurgel
cyborg
cyborg
evanilista
gina
Le

strictly off the cuff.

That's a solid roster. Is the Gracie Roger?

boomer sooner wrote:

That's a solid roster. Is the Gracie Roger?

and I missed some obvious ones like Shamrock, Scott Smith, Radach, Riggs, the recently signed Sefo and a great prospect who was uber impressive on a recent challenger series card by the name of Tyrone Woodley.

And yes it is Roger, who they signed back in une and has yet to get in the cage.

pwnt