Josh Barnett vs Daniel Cormier - May 19th

Date is finally set.

May 19th in San Jose, HP Pavillion.

Who do you got

I think Josh not only beats him, i think he takes him down, mounts him, and sweeps the GP via head and arm choke.

He's just too big. I know i said Foot would be too big, but i never gave him a chance of taking Cormier down and i dint expect the striking by Cormier. Josh has the luxury of being much bigger and having great takedowns and a unique, effective style of wrestling for todays MMA, i know its old school but it would still be effective if all the other catch wrestlers werent all old and beat down..which Josh is not. Though Cormier should outstrike him fairly easily while standing, never liked Barnett there at all.

My version of booking this card would look like:

Main Card
Cormier vs Barnett for the GP Championship
Rockhold vs Kennedy for the MW Championship
Marquardt vs Woodley for the WW Championship
Mousasi vs Kyle

Showtime Extreme Card
Scaffidine vs Mein
JZ vs Masvidal
Brunson vs James
Lawler vs Villafort
Wilcox vs Green

If it was like that I'd get tickets, we'll be lucky if even half these fights were booked though.

Cormier for me. I think he will take Josh down repeatedly and GNP his way into a decision victory.

http://mmajunkie.com/news/27731/with-conditional-license-strikeforces-barnett-says-csac-heard-me-well-enough.mma?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mmajunkie+%28MMAjunkie.com+Feed%29

The California State Athletic Commission today voted 4-2 to grant Josh Barnett a conditional license to fight in the Golden State.

The decision clears the way for the finals of the Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix, which is targeted for May 19 in San Jose, Calif. Barnett (31-5 MMA, 2-0 SF) meets Daniel Cormier (9-0 MMA, 6-0 SF) in the tournament finale.

As part of his licensing, Barnett will be required to submit clean drug tests prior to any fight in California and could be subject to a revocation should he test positive for banned substances.

"Please don't let us down," CSAC chair John Frierson told Barnett, who appeared before the commission as part of special meeting called to address his license status. "We need fights here in California. We need good people."

Barnett said he was satisfied with the commission's ruling when contacted today by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

"Even the fact of people voting against me, they're being objective and they're going off their own personal experiences throughout the years, so I'm not going to begrudge anybody," he said. "I feel that they definitely heard me well enough."

Barnett's past experiences with the commission had been considerably more contentious. Prior to a proposed fight with Fedor Emelianenko at "Affliction: Trilogy," he failed a pre-fight drug test, which prompted the CSAC to deny him a license to compete. The event, which was scheduled for August 2009, was subsequently canceled.

Barnett's appeal of the license denial was postponed on three occasions, and a subsequent license application was withdrawn. The heavyweight was signed by Strikeforce in late 2010 and fought twice for the promotion, where he Brett Rogers and Sergei Kharitonov to advance to the grand-prix finals.

During today's meeting, Barnett denied knowingly ingesting steroids despite a positive drug test prior to the proposed fight with Emelianenko. He said tainted supplements may have caused his result. Prior to today's meeting, he submitted clean blood and urine samples to the commission and noted that he had tested clean for fights subsequent to his failed test. According to California Deputy District Attorney General Karen Chappelle, who represented the state during the hearing, the fighter had met the conditions for licensing.

Other commissioners, however, called into question Barnett's claim that tainted supplements may have caused his most recent positive test.

A positive test in Nevada, which came in 2002 following Barnett's title-winning fight against Randy Couture at UFC 36, was also broached by the commission. The fighter denied using steroids then and said the supplements he used at the time were later classified as anabolic agents. That test, which prompted the UFC to strip Barnett of his title and boot him from the promotion, was downplayed by Frierson as a factor in the ruling.

For his part, Barnett said it wasn't his intention to challenge the CSAC's previous finding against him but to address their concerns as thoroughly as possible.

Frierson said Barnett would become a "bookmark" in his work with the commission due to the unusual circumstances around the meeting.

"I will not have special meetings for everybody who wants to say, 'I didn't do this and so-and-so," he said. "That's money out of the state's pocket."

If confirmed for San Jose, the location of the grand-prix finale isn't likely to win Barnett any cheers. While not a native to the city, Cormier resides in San Jose, where he trains with hometown heroes at American Kickboxing Academy.

Barnett, a Pacific Northwest native who now resides in Fullerton, Calif., hasn't taken the outsider role since fighting Hideo Yoshida four years ago in the inaugural event of now-defunct Japanese promotion World Victory Road/Sengoku.

I got Cormier, I think it'll be close though. I think Daniels gonna be real hard for Josh to takedown and I think Daniels standup will be better.

MMAEYES wrote:

I got Cormier, I think it'll be close though. I think Daniels gonna be real hard for Josh to takedown and I think Daniels standup will be better.

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Barnett

MMAEYES wrote:

I got Cormier, I think it'll be close though. I think Daniels gonna be real hard for Josh to takedown and I think Daniels standup will be better.

Yeah that could be the case. It might be tough for either guy to get much going in the takedown departments. Could be a stand up game. But Josh is tough and a survivor on the feet as well, might not be a good boxer but he has taken it and hung in to the later rounds to clean up.

I think on the feet, SC has the advantage, but once it hits the ground? Josh B. Will wrap him up tight and goodnight.