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Strikeforce’s monumental "Carano vs. Cyborg" card may have lost another title fight. Earlier this week, the scheduled heavyweight championship bout between Alistair Overeem and Fabricio Werdum went up in smoke due to Overeem’s infected hand. Now, it appears that the rematch between Nick Diaz and Joe Riggs — which would have decided Strikeforce’s first welterweight champion — could be off as well. According to GracieFighter (via FiveOuncesofPain):
GracieFighter, of course, is operated by Nick Diaz’s trainer Cesar Gracie, which should explain that subtle "physical or mental" dig. (It also has us wondering if this is really a troll-job, just to screw with Riggs’s head before the fight. You can never be sure these days.) There has been no confirmation from Riggs himself yet. We’ll keep you posted…
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commentsStupid decision -> Can't fight -> Can't get paid.
The only people "acting professional" are the crooks that control the sport and rake in mad loot off the sweat of the fighters. That's called working smart, not hard. And acting professionally has been their camoflage for years.
Call it what you want, it's still a street fight. And are you really naive enough to believe that people get "jumped" by security guards for no reason? The bottom line is, he was in a bar, and got into a fight.
If guys like Overeem want to be respected as professional athletes, then they need to be far more repsonsible and stop this kind of shit. If you are a professional MMA fighter, you have to be a fucking moron if you are getting involved in street fights. They should pull Overeem's belt from him, and move on. If Overeem gets his shit together, then he can fight to get the title back. If Strikeforce did this, then maybe guys like Overeem would start to take their sport seriously.
Thankfully the sport has true athletes, and true ambassadors, that take professional MMA seriously. Guys like St. Pierre, Machida, Couture, A. Silva, W. Silva, Griffin, etc. Even fighters that are a-holes, like Lesnar, at least respect the sport enough to take is seriously.
1. @ CJ vs CP - Dude.......learn to write, spell, speak, something that won't take away from your already unfunny post.
2. @ Fiction - Not the kind of coat tails you want to ride bro.
And 3. @ Ceeph - That's a street fight.
Fri, 07/24/2009 - 06:33
hahahaha subtle user name
>>>> Stupid-as-h e l l-and-unoriginal user name
CP - Isn't riggs a top 10 guy in your books?
How come Nick Diaz isn't challenging the CA Athletic commission saying he's smoking everyday again?
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