Strikeforce (ha, picture is of Strike Force tag team, get it?) put on their 2nd show saturday night and nobody was impressed. The event was called "Revenge" with Vitor Belfort getting another shot at Alistair Overeem. The 1st time they fought, Overeem won by choke. This time the experts were saying Vitor's head was right and he was giving away his "life story" books to everyone in attendance.
Instead, we got the same old Vitor, head case who would not finish his fight. As always Vitor came out strong with his fast hands and even wound up with the mount on Alistair. Vitor could do little with it and the ref had to stand them up. From there, they battled and Vitor began his weird "pulling guard" position every time his fists didn't land. This happened non-stop in the fight, even into the later rounds which caused most of the crowd in attendance to exit the building before the unanimous decision for Overeem was read. Another head shaking fight for Belfort, but congrats to Alistair for stepping up to take the fight on short notice, and after a tough loss in pride.
Cung Le won his 2nd MMA fight against a tomato can by TKO.
Daniel Puder won his 3rd MMA fight by armbar against a nobody.
Gilbert Melendez defeated Clayton Guida for the Lightweight Title by split decision, though the fight was not close and Melendez clearly won. What was interesting, was before the weigh in for the fight, an anonymous call to the athletic commission promted Melendez to take 2 uring tests before the fight. He passed both and while this went on, Josh Thompson and Clayton exchanged more words over their previous fight and the "cheating" Josh said went on. Josh won his fight on this card and you would think he'd get another shot at Guida who just beat him the PPV before. However, Guida called out Jochim Hansen claiming they had been arguing on the internet (yawn) and the winner would get a title shot at Gomi in Pride. We'll wait and see if any of this is true, and hope the bitter rivals Guida/Thompson will fight again and settle their nasty fued.
Bobby Southworth was set to fight James Irvin but James came in overweight. Bobby allowed James to fight anyway, and was awarded $1,500 of Irvin's purse. When the fight began, the two clinched into the cage where the door gave way and the fighters crashed to the floor. Why the door wasn't immediately closed we'll never know (seems pretty standard to latch the damn thing) but James claimed he hurt his knee causing the fight to be ruled a no-contest 17 seconds into the 1st round. Nice job Strikeforce.
Also on hand, Frank Shamrock came out with Phil Baroni (fresh off his embarassing lost in the Pride Welterweight Tournament) to promote their upcoming bout for Strikeforce. One thing is for sure, this promotion needs to get their act together and have some decent fights on a pathetic undercard. Also, Baroni main eventing anything is just sad. An all around piss poor event with crappy fighters with the exception of Overeem, Melendez, and Thompson.-MMA Mafia
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