Drooke Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Strikeforce April 11 on Showtime Main Card - at this time Nick Diaz - Frank Shamrock Josh Thompson - Gilbert Melendez Benji Radach - Scott Smith Hitomi Akano - Christiane "CYBORG" Santos I'm looking forward to every fight on this card. Nice to see Strikeforce back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB145 Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Very good card.. Thompson vs Melendez will be great fight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CE Fisher Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 If you haven't seen it already, you should go watch the press conference for this event. I think it is on allelbows.com. It is hilarious. Big time style and personality clash between these two. It will be a great fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth34 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I hope Shamrock puts Diaz in his place. Shamrock has actual MMA accomplishments and Diaz flamed out in the UFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB145 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I hope Shamrock puts Diaz in his place. Shamrock has actual MMA accomplishments and Diaz flamed out in the UFC. He took a nice paycheck as being a headliner in a diff up and coming org. He beat some talent in the UFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted April 7, 2009 Author Share Posted April 7, 2009 Take away spring training in baseball and the Harlem Globetrotters in basketball, and you don?t find too many tenured sports that hold contests for the hell of it. Every game ?means something,? usually as an avenue to a world title. The UFC, MMA?s slightly less PC version of the MLB, organizes and arranges nearly every fight with the expectation that participants could someday vie for a divisional belt. Very rarely will they throw two athletes in a burlap sack for giggles. (The upcoming Wanderlei Silva/Rich Franklin catchweight fight a notable, noisy exception.) This is a good thing. As a longtime sufferer of obsessive-compulsive disorder, my psyche insists on several things: that white socks don?t mix with black, that the TV remotes are arranged in descending order of size and that fights have a point beyond inflicting a bunch of bruises. Saturday?s sore-thumb fight between Frank Shamrock and Nick Diaz -- held at a catchweight of 179 pounds -- will do my affliction no favors. It will not satisfy any questions about The Best in any particular weight class. (Though Shamrock, jovial, professional Internet troll that he is, would probably delight in making his very own 179-pound title out of cardboard and ego.) It will not add anything of significance to either man?s career. With Diaz bulking up and Shamrock slowing down, it?s a Frankenstein monster of a match. And yet I?m looking forward to it nearly as much as any fight this year. Something is clearly wrong with me. Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com Make no mistake: Nick Diaz will strangle you with your own IV tube.It could be the residual goodwill I have for Shamrock, who has remained one of the few athletes in the sport to marry a dynamic personality with a dynamic in-ring presence. (Most athletes can muster one or the other, but rarely both.) Maybe it?s because Diaz is his perfect foil, an attitudinal Stockton bruiser with bravado so foaming he?s willing to attack an opponent while the two are in the same hospital wing. Make no mistake: Nick Diaz will strangle you with your own IV tube. And that?s pretty endearing. The fight itself appears destined to be three rounds of video game-style button-mashing. Diaz?s volume punching is probably not going to work against Shamrock, who escaped to stand-up training when his legs gave up on him. Likewise, Shamrock may have few answers (and not enough knee cartilage) if Diaz decides to shoot in on him. There?s never any complete guarantee against boredom, but these are not two guys who stand still and wait for something to happen. Size is a non-issue. Shamrock, one of the smallest light heavyweights of his or any era, carries sparsely more muscle than Robbie Lawler, whom Diaz flattened. And while he may be built like a supplement ad, Shamrock has never relied on brute force for conflict resolution. He?s a craftsman, and so is Diaz. What really interests is how Diaz?s new face -- Frank Stile, MD -- will hold up against Shamrock, easily the most accomplished and foreboding striker Diaz has met since having scar tissue removed and collagen implanted to reduce his frequent lacerations. A couple of years ago, I would?ve picked Shamrock via brow slicing. If Diaz embraces strategy and takes him down, it could be a different story. A story with no gold MacGuffin, just bragging rights. The opposite is true of the following weekend?s Anderson Silva/Thales Leites bout, which is unique in that Silva has an opportunity to set a new all-time UFC record for consecutive fights won in the Octagon (nine). Leites, unfortunately, is a generic personality; Silva did himself no favors by engaging in a bizarre performance against Patrick Cote last October. It appears to have robbed him of the fanfare surrounding his previous performances. Silva would, likely as not, knock both Shamrock and Diaz out of their kneepads and into the concession stands -- maybe even on the same night. But context is everything. Robert De Niro may be a far better actor than his peers, but damned if I?ll sit through ?Righteous Kill? again. Most of the time, a fight should mean something, a contest that adds order and balance to a sport that?s still struggling with cohesion. Other times, a fight should just be a fight, with nothing more on the line than the audience?s attention. Shamrock gets me because he gets storytelling: the idea that you have to have an emotional stake in a fight or fighter in order to get nervous for them. For most athletes, the title is the story. Frank takes more authorship. He is the only first-generation MMA athlete still competing on a high level, and that?s a tale worth following. Fifteen years on this gig has taught him how to make us care about his exploits. And he does it better than anybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeandBreighton Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Strikeforce April 11 on Showtime Benji Radach - Scott Smith Hitomi Akano - Christiane "CYBORG" Santos One of these 2 will be fight of the night. Don't know why but I really like "hands of steel" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Holy cow Cyborg is getting ready to fight right now and it 6 lbs over. This is gonna be ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 J and B you were right on the money. What a great fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 Wow I never thought that Diaz would be so much larger than Shamrock. I thought that was Frank's advantage in this bout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midwest Wrestling Fanpage Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Did Diaz win this fight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Yes, Diaz destroyed Shamrock. It wasn't very pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midwest Wrestling Fanpage Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Cool I like Diaz what happen with him and Dana UFC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeandBreighton Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Cool I like Diaz what happen with him and Dana UFC? I liked him after he beat Lawler, but his attitude, you would think he has been an undefeated UFC champ for many years. Him and his bro are 2 tools mma could do with out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midwest Wrestling Fanpage Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 They are great at what they do though, it is good for different personalities in the sport I think, look at Tito, Tank Abbott even the King Gracie was a tough guy who said and did what he felt. Look at some of Gracies old matches after they would make them tap he would still try and destroy ,and get up talking smack. And that is what got MMA to the popularity it's at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeandBreighton Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 They are great at what they do though, it is good for different personalities in the sport I think, look at Tito, Tank Abbott even the King Gracie was a tough guy who said and did what he felt. Look at some of Gracies old matches after they would make them tap he would still try and destroy ,and get up talking smack. And that is what got MMA to the popularity it's at. Yes, but except for tank, the others were cahps. Diaz hasn't done much except beat guys he wasn't supposed to, and lose to guys he was supposed to beat. I want to see him and Kyro (again), should have fought when his bro and Kyro's cuz fought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midwest Wrestling Fanpage Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I agree, But Gracie was worse than all of them. He would try and do permenant damage everytime in there. Tank was a little bit of a bum I used to watch him at Parties in Cali before cage fighting got big, fight for money or we would go to warehouses or parking garages. He lived down the street in Huntington Beach from me he was the most hated guy around even then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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