' Jacare ' WINS Strikeforce middle belt with decision on Kennedy

In the fight that decided the winner of the middle belt, Ronaldo vacant Strikeforce "Jacare" Souza has won a unanimous decision on Tim Kennedy, with maps of judges read 49-46, 48-47, 48-47.

Jacare, known as one of the world's best in Jiu-Jitsu, held the first round permanent, effective landing strikes in the first round. Jacare Counterpunched Kennedy, but had an answer for every move offensive that made Kennedy.That continued into the second round. Jacare wore down Kennedy, although Kennedy did things attempt takedown of Jacare.

In the third round, Jacare opened a cut above his left eye of Kennedy with a big right hand. not long after his face started bleeding, Kennedy Jacare took, but surprisingly, Jacare doesn't want to stay there. Scored from under Kennedy and led the fight back walking for the rest of the turn.

Fourth, Kennedy appeared on Earth more punches, but they did not cause much damage. with about a minute and a half left in the fourth round, Kennedy landed a shot of Jacare indavertent groin.Jacare was given time to recover, while Kennedy eye bled. the fight was delayed more due to a problem with the clock to fight.

Kennedy impresses improved in the final round, but in the last 30 seconds of round wire Jacare landed two strikes which wobbled Kennedy.Kennedy replied with a takedownm bringing Jacare ashore for a millisecond before Jacare jumped to his feet.

After the decision was announced, Kennedy was confused and upset with the call by judges.

"The best grappler world couldn't get off me, and I took him down a few times," said Kennedy. "I've said before. I do not like judges. I won't be here again. "

The fight was close as prognosticators predicted, but hits Jacare was effective throughout the match. the specialist of grappling proved that he is just as comfortable on his feet as he is on the ground and because of this, he is the newly crowned champion Middle Strikeforce.

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Night of upheaval in Strikeforce: 're Mo ' loses the title ' Propiedades '

 

Competitive Equilibrium can be a fallacy that it is possible to search in other sports, but in the fight you need big stars. Strikeforce took a beating tonight as Bobby Lashley declined to launch the Showtime television, then one of the brightest young stars promotion "King Mo" Muhammed Lawal came firstly on the mat in under 12 minutes.

Rafael Cavalcante "Propiedades ' was the biggest, most powerful and most technical fighter. It was only a matter of time before King mo has captured by some sort of ugly strike. In the third round, he was hit with a huge knee in a situation of clinch. Knee buckled and as he was tripping backward, Propiedades nailed him with another right. Lawal fell to his back and retro rose up in fashion flaky. Has struggled to maintain the Propiedades against Cage as he got pummeled by elbows. After absorbing more than a dozen elbows and punches, dropped left arm of Lawal. This is when referee John McCarthy intervened to stop things at 1: 14 of third.Lawal was clearly out, as he fell first face to mat. Propiedades (10-2) took the title of heavy Strikeforce light from Lawal.

It's not shocking that Lawal (7-1) lost. After you move from the world of amateur wrestling is still a fighter, very newbie.Lawal, who just lost in the u.s. 2008 Olympic wrestling team, allowed his grappling to bring it to an unbeaten record against a decent slate of combatants.But tonight Propiedades proved to be too strong. Lawal scored two Takedown but also worked extremely hard while missing out on three other. even when Propiedades hit the deck, scored the same relatively rapid at his feet

Propiedades outlanded Lawal 67-50, but most of the shots of Brazilian were much heavier.

 

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Sounds like Strikeforce has some doubts about Bobby Lashley

 

It wasn't a big night for Bobby Lashley. Once again, he looked one-dimensional in its fight against Griggs Chad. Suffered a nasty cut below his left eye which hasn't exactly motivate him to fight harder. Lashley gassed also out to half in the second round. Worst of all, has its first loss MMA was a guy nobody thought had a chance. After the performance, it will be pretty hard to sell Lashley in a fight against an opponent of big name. He also played like Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker was going to need some convincing.

"We will be able to talk to Bobby later.You know that he is going to do some soul searching and really decide what do you want to do, "said Coker."But if he decides to fight, we will have him back. "

The MMA blogosphere reacted strongly to that statement. Was an overreaction by pundits MMA? We're not sure.It was a bold statement from Coker on a guy who had just lost his first battle.Lashley, 34, is still a good prospect but has clearly things that he needs to work on. Certainly this does not mean that his career is no future. especially if we discover that he was dealing with a serious ailment in or during the fight.

Coker explained his position on nation MMA radio show of WJFK (mark 5: 25).

"Mixed martial arts is sport where sometimes you're going to get hit, you're going to get hurt. not like pro wrestling," said Coker. "How is working his way he is going to get to a point where it says ' is this something that I want to do? 'You work your way and now you get a real clear picture of what is mixed martial arts and want to work through it and continue, or want to do something else? "

Coker may have questions about dedication of Lashley but he knows one thing, the hype machine Lashley must slow down.

"The thing that is not right for Bobby is that he has all these high expectations from all these people," Coker said host Luke Thomas."People think you should be right in there with Fedor. I mean come on, let's be real, he is not at that level right now."

The torch PW reported on what has forced Lashley to the hospital after the fight.

Lashley was said to be "very dehydrated" after his fight against Chad Griggs on paper "Showtime: Houston" fight. hospital, Lashley was treated with multiple IV bags for fluid pump Back in his system.

Coker said he believes still Lashley would continue his career MMA but was evasive on a struggle against fellow pro wrestler Dave Batista. Coker said on nation MMA that Anderson had already reached at Strikeforce and wants to fight immediately.

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Tate takes tournament of women Strikeforce first

 

Had certainly marketability and WINS to earn a rematch against the champ Sarah Kaufmann but Miesha Tate wasn't just delivered a blow to women Strikeforce title 135-pound. Strikeforce has chosen a different path for a Northern California-based fighter. Have made her the focal point of a tournament one night, four-women. It was all or nothing, and she came great. Tate scored two victories, including a grapplefest fought against Hitomi Akano very dangerous to earn his shot at Kaufman Strikeforce Challenger 10/Phoenix.

Marloes Coenen get the first shot against Kaufman sometime this fall.

"My defense of presentation is one of my strengths.(Akano) was what I wanted to fight the majority in the tournament, "said the Tate proud. Sarah you're amazing.I can't wait to fight is once again. "

Kaufman can defend his title with victory against Coenen, will be the second possibility of Tate at Canadian. Tate 23-year-old lost a decision of Kaufman last October.

"Is a dream come true. I came here to a mission and accomplished my goal, "Tate said.

She could have very easily missed his shot. the tournament prompted Tate (11-2) to combat two times in one night.Which is a format that has a long history in Japan, but most of the boards of THE U.S. are reluctant to allow freedom fighters fight against two times in one night. Arizona was a game, but a change was made. rounds have been shortened from five minutes to three minutes and the first round of the tournament, the fights were just two laps. Has been done to minimize the damage, but is also made risky in the opening round for bookmarks, Tate and Akano.

Tate met Maiju Kujala inexperienced.A native of Finland, Kujala (4-2) was hard to take down and landed at times the best shots on the feet. Tate fled with a victory of decision and didn't take much damage.

Akano (4-8) had to work much harder in his match against Pretty Damm. fighting hit the deck early and often, and Damm was the fighter physically stronger.The "Monster Fight Girl" got the Takedown but had trouble controlling the largest Brazilian.But Akano technique was brilliant as has often used force against you the Damm. in the middle of the second round, Damm had the upper control but reversed by Akano, which stuck on a modification to the triangle and scored the victory by armbar the 1: 48 mark.

 

"I just used force of carina in my technique inversion," said Akano, through his interpreter Shu Hirata. "I went with the flow and she entered the armbar. When I fight Miesha, I'd like to introduce you. "

Akano, 36, was very dangerous final, but was a bit too small for Tate. Tate scored Takedown in all three shifts and quickly took control of his back. worked for chokes for the second and third round but defence lodged Akano was very solid.

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Strikeforce: Houston Preview-sherdog.com stream. Cormier vs. Riley and Galvao vs. Patino

By Nick Thomas on 16 August 2010 6: 57 PM EDT in messages

bout Galvao-Moore will be streamed live on sherdog.com, together with undercard matchup between the recently crowned King heavy Cage champion Daniel Cormier and Jason Riley.

[UPDATE]-Nate Moore outside of injury ", Jorge Patino Macaco" (20-12-1) is in accordance with twitter's Galvao.

Cards Main-Saturday, Aug 21 at Showtime:
Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal vs. Rafael Cavalcante "Feijao" [LHW title]
Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza vs. Tim Kennedy [MW title]
K.J. Noons vs. Jorge Gurgel
Bobby Lashley vs. Chad Griggs

Initial Charter:
Daniel Cormier vs. Jason Riley
Andre Galvao vs. Jorge Patino
Vinicius "Draculino" Municipal vs. Rocky Long
Gooch vs. Adam Schindler hearts
Jose Santibanez vs. Reynaldo Trujillo
Humberto DeLeon vs. Chad Robichaux
Chad Cook vs. Arteneus Young

Strikeforce: Houston cover Read More: daniel cormier, jason riley, andre galvao, nate moore, Strikeforce: Houston

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Strikeforce Challenger 9 on tap Friday evening

On display Friday night of Everett, WA and on Showtime are two of the best in female MMA (11 p.m. ET/PT). Sarah Kaufman defends her title of 135-pound against Roxanne Modafferi. Kaufman (11-0) is a slugger with eight arrests over his record while Modafferi (15-5) will always fight to the ground. There was a small controversy this week when blogged Kaufmann, that you don't like being the cards Strikeforce Challenger. She sees this card as less than many of the regular cards that airs ShowTime Strikeforce.

Sergio Not from USA today broke down the fight:

Even though she has no knockout punch power-one, you can explode with flurries to head that often leaves opponents reeling.

"I really believe that there's something very primal about it," Kaufman says USA today in February before the fight Hashi. "Is so technical. There are many different facets to it."As Hashi and most other top-ranked female combatants, Modafferi (15-5) has a penchant for bases instead of boxing and kickboxing. most of its victories saw her take down opponents before their battering on mat or catch them with submission holds. "I don't like stand-up, to be honest, "says Modafferi."But was my weak point, and I worked really hard to it".

In the main event, is a battle of heavyweights like Shane Del Rosario butts heads with Lolohea Mahé. Del Rosario was often said as a future opponent for Bobby Lashley. instead, Lashley is fighting Griggs Chad next month in Houston.

Strikeforce: weigh in Challenger(Courtesy MMAJunkie):

Shane Del Rosario (243.6) vs Lolohea Mahé (264)
Sarah Kaufman (134) vs Roxanne Modafferi (133.4)-title: 135-pound
Cory Devela (171) vs. Bobby Voelker (170.4)
Ron Humphrey (202.6) vs Mike Kyle (205.8)
Thomas Diagne (156) vs Caros Fodor ($ 155.6)

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