Overeem vs. Rogers May 15th

High 5 · Post #1 » by **High 5** » Wed May 12, 2010 3:10 pm

Main Card:

Alistair Overeem (c) vs. Brett Rogers
Andrei Arlovski vs. Antonio Silva
Ronaldo Souza vs. Joey Villaseñor
Roger Gracie vs. Kevin Randleman
Rafael Cavalcante vs. Antwain Britt

I'm excited for Overeem/Rogers even if it's a joke that Rogers gets a title shot off of a loss. Some other interesting fights, too.

funkatron101 · Post #2 » by **funkatron101** » Wed May 12, 2010 3:38 pm

It's a really solid card. Although I expect this to be the end for Randleman.

REDDzone · Post #3 » by **REDDzone** » Wed May 12, 2010 3:42 pm

Awesome card. I hope Roger does better than Rolles (he has to, right?).

skflives · Post #4 » by **skflives** » Wed May 12, 2010 4:13 pm

The fact that Rodgers has a title shot after a loss isn't a joke. Its a paper belt because Overeem never defended it in 2 years. For all intents and purposes Fedor became Strikeforce's champion the day he signed with them. Overeem vs. Rodgers is essentially a glorified #1 contenders fight.

cowboyronnie · Post #5 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed May 12, 2010 8:05 pm

Fedor has no more right to the title than Alistair. ^ It's not a given that he'd beat him.

Randleman has been done for a while. That's a lame fight. I'd rather Rogers face a totally inexperienced guy with a pulse than a burnt-out ex-star.

Nemesis21 · Post #6 » by **Nemesis21** » Wed May 12, 2010 10:17 pm

Not bad. Randleman still fighting ? He's been done for awhile.

Posey H8er · Post #7 » by **Posey H8er** » Wed May 12, 2010 11:23 pm

I have Overeem and Arlovski winning by KO.

Post #8 » by **CPT** » Thu May 13, 2010 12:42 am

Looking forward to this, but the way it just snuck up says a lot about Strikeforce's **** marketing.

Plus, I would have liked to see Overeem vs. Arlovski, Rogers vs. Silva instead, but these fights are pretty good I guess.

Overeem
Arlovski
Jacare
Gracie
Feijao

High 5 · Post #9 » by **High 5** » Thu May 13, 2010 5:28 am

CPT wrote:Looking forward to this, but the way it just snuck up says a lot about Strikeforce's **** marketing.

Plus, I would have liked to see Overeem vs. Arlovski, Rogers vs. Silva instead, but these fights are pretty good I guess.

Overeem
Arlovski
Jacare
Gracie
Feijao

I had no idea there was a Strikeforce card this weekend until I took a peek at Sherdog this morning. I have never seen Overeem, Jacare, or Roger Gracie fight live so I'm looking forward to it.

jTF2 · Post #10 » by **jTF2** » Thu May 13, 2010 2:36 pm

is this going to air on cbs?

2009NBAChamps · Post #11 » by **2009NBAChamps** » Thu May 13, 2010 3:03 pm

I believe this is on showtime but not sure.....

anyways a lot of fighters I'm excited to see, but not a lot of good fights by the looks of it

Here are my picks:

Overeem by whatever he wants
Arlovski by KO
Souza
Calvacante
Gracie

Posey H8er · Post #12 » by **Posey H8er** » Thu May 13, 2010 8:13 pm

Yes it's on Showtime. If I had to guess we won't be seeing SF on CBS anymore.

Posey H8er · Post #13 » by **Posey H8er** » Fri May 14, 2010 3:07 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdJaqmNi4bw[/youtube]

skflives · Post #14 » by **skflives** » Fri May 14, 2010 1:21 pm

We'll see Strikeforce on CBS again. The Fedor fight did excellent on CBS. We'll probably see Strikeforce on CBS again in the fall.

Post #15 » by **CPT** » Fri May 14, 2010 4:02 pm

skflives wrote:We'll see Strikeforce on CBS again. The Fedor fight did excellent on CBS. We'll probably see Strikeforce on CBS again in the fall.

They lost money on that event, and while I think it did alright, it certainly didn't do "excellent."

They can do comparable numbers with re-runs.

Post #16 » by **singh_shady** » Sun May 16, 2010 3:36 am

Wow, what happened to Arlovki's striking?..

Post #17 » by **singh_shady** » Sun May 16, 2010 3:58 am

Overeem made QUICK work of Rogers.. Absolutely demolished him.. A fight vs. Fedor would be very interesting

Post #18 » by **singh_shady** » Sun May 16, 2010 4:04 am

Ah fack forgot that Fedor is scheduled to face Werdum in June.. What a giant waste of time.. I liked how Overeem called out Fedor though

Posey H8er · Post #19 » by **Posey H8er** » Sun May 16, 2010 4:10 am

singh_shady wrote:Ah fack forgot that Fedor is scheduled to face Werdum in June.. What a giant waste of time.. I liked how Overeem called out Fedor though

I do as well. Fedor's people can't call Overeem weak competition now, he just manhandled Rogers better than Fedor did. Hopefully we can see a Fedor/Overeem fight in October.

High 5 · Post #20 » by **High 5** » Sun May 16, 2010 5:37 pm

Meh. The first fight that I didn't care anything about was the best one.

At least we have a solid foundation for Fedor/Overeem now.