Strikeforce: Gilbert Melendez vs. Pat Healy (Sept. 29th)

Post #1 » by **LittleOzzy** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:03 pm

Lightweight Championship bout: Gilbert Melendez (c) vs. Pat Healy

Light Heavyweight bout: Guto Inocente vs. Gian Villante

Lightweight bout: Isaac Vallie-Flagg vs. Adriano Martins

Welterwieght bout: Jorge Santiago vs. Quinn Mulhern

Lightweight bout: Josh Thomson vs. Caros Fodor

Light Heavyweight bout: Mike Kyle vs. Dion Staring

Post #2 » by **LittleOzzy** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:44 pm

Why are they putting this on directly against Struve vs. Miocic?

Post #3 » by **LittleOzzy** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:18 pm

Updated card.

Lightweight Championship bout: Gilbert Melendez (c) vs. Pat Healy
Light Heavyweight bout: Gian Villante vs. Guto Inocente
Lightweight bout: Isaac Vallie-Flagg vs. Adriano Martins
Welterwieght bout: Jorge Santiago vs. s Quinn Mulhern
Lightweight bout: Josh Thomson vs. Caros Fodor

Preliminary card (Showtime Extreme)

Lightweight bout: Jorge Gurgel vs. Mizuto Hirota
Women's Bantamweight bout: Amanda Nunes vs. Cat Zingano
Light Heavyweight bout: Mike Kyle vs. Dion Staring
Welterweight bout: Nah-Shon Burrell vs. Yuri Villefort
Lightweight bout: Estevan Payan vs. Michael Bravo

cowboyronnie · Post #4 » by **cowboyronnie** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:45 pm

uh, Jeez, what a terrible card (I assume...by the fact I recognize 5 names total). And Zuffa are counter-programming themselves??

Post #5 » by **CPT** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:55 am

Possibly the worst card I've ever seen put on by a major organization.

Too bad they couldn't combine it with the Struve/Miocic card.

REDDzone · Post #6 » by **REDDzone** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:43 pm

This event canceled.

SDM · Post #7 » by **SDM** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:40 pm

This is what happens when you build a card around one fight.

x 2

REDDzone · Post #8 » by **REDDzone** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:50 pm

SDM wrote:This is what happens when you build a card around one fight.

x 2

Bones fault imo.

On a more serious note, I don't really understand why this card sucked so bad. You can't tell me some of these strikeforce guys didn't want a fight. I mean how many fewer events per yearshas zuffa been doing with strikeforce than they were doing before? I guess the roster has been stripped so maybe that's the issue.

SDM · Post #9 » by **SDM** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:56 pm

I just want it to fold so their top fighters can fight the best in the world.

There's a perfect opportunity right now to merge the belts, but instead Cormier's on the shelf until a replacement-- from UFC-- is found. It's stupid. They need to do the bare minimum to fulfill their TV obligations, but as soon as that's over, any second spent debating the future of Strikeforce is a waste.

Gold Chain · Post #10 » by **Gold Chain** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:11 pm

Wow, this has been a bad run for MMA.....like really bad.

cowboyronnie · Post #11 » by **cowboyronnie** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:56 pm

Certainly makes the scapegoating of Jones seem silly. There's clearly something more systemic than one man's unwillingness to fight.

'Systemic', MFers, that's a high-concept.

REDDzone · Post #12 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:48 am

Rumor says that zuffa may pay the strikeforce guys who got screwed here. That's great to hear. Good on them if that comes to fruition.

Gold Chain · Post #13 » by **Gold Chain** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:43 pm

Jake Shields done it!

Can we just fold up Strikeforce, please?!

Anyways, Ariel said on his show that Showtime has the renew option next year, and Zuffa the year after.

So, I have to think we get another year of this stuff.

Cammo101 · Post #14 » by **Cammo101** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:51 pm

Strikeforce needs to die already. Move the dudes to the UFC and turn Strikeforce into an all women's org.

REDDzone · Post #15 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:29 pm

Cammo101 wrote:Strikeforce needs to die already.

My heart dropped when I heard that next year is a showtime option. They will keep it for the dirt cheap sports programming. I was hoping it would end after 2012.