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Not a really big fan of MMA but I'll definitely try to catch this. I like Fedor because he seems like a really humble guy despite his amazing skills.
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Strikeforce: Silva vs. Fedor" breaks ratings records, peaks with 1.1 million viewers
by Dann Stupp on Feb 15, 2011 at 11:15 am ET
Saturday's "Strikeforce: Silva vs. Fedor" event shattered the organization's ratings records on Showtime.
Overall, the Feb. 12 event averaged 741,000 viewers and peaked with 1.1 million for the Antonio Silva vs. Fedor Emelianenko headliner. Both broke Strikeforce's previous bests.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed the numbers with an industry source.
"Strikeforce: Silva vs. Fedor" took place at IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., and kicked off the organization's highly anticipated eight-man heavyweight grand prix. The event received perhaps the biggest pre-event publicity push in Strikeforce history.
The new ratings records break those previously held by "Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg," an August 2009 event headlined by female fighters Gina Carano and Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos that averaged 576,000 viewers and peaked with 856,000.
The organization recently had built momentum with a January event featuring welterweight champ Nick Diaz vs. Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos. That event averaged 561,000 viewers and peaked with 853,000. It now ranks third behind "Fedor vs. Silva" and "Carano vs. Santos."
Saturday's peak audience came with the second of the night's two opening-round grand-prix matchups. Silva shocked the Russian with a second-round TKO (due to a doctor's stoppage) and punched his ticket to the semifinals of the tourney.
The main card also saw Sergei Kharitonov knock out Andrei Arlovski in the first opening-round matchup. Additionally, Shane Del Rosario, Chad Griggs and Valentijn Overeem all won tourney-reserve fights in convincing fashion. The tourney's opening round continues on April 9 with Alistair Overeem vs. Fabricio Werdum and Josh Barnett vs. Brett Rogers.
Strikeforce first began airing on Showtime, a premium-cable station with approximately 18 million subscribers, in April 2009. A total of 26 Strikeforce events have aired on Showtime (and an additional two on CBS), including both "Arena Series" and "Challengers Series" shows.
"Strikeforce: Silva vs. Fedor" re-airs Wednesday on Showtime Extreme at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT.
For more on "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva," including full event coverage and official results, check out the MMA Events section ofLiquidrob's Top 10 Fighters Rankings
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Dana is predicting Barnett to win the whole shebang.
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"Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be." - Marcelo GarciaComment
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Other than Glass Joe the rest of that is retardo.
What the hell does Papa Shango and some ice cream have to do with silva and fedor ?Best reason to have a license.
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Fedor's wacky russian M1 lunatics accused Silva of using mind control techniques in the fight.
Seriously.
Don't you read "Around The Cage", the fastest growing MMA column on the internet? Jeez.
And Fedor has the famous ice cream eating pic.Comment
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M-1 later claimed the dude was joking. lol
WAR KHARITONOV!
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"So Bigfoot Silva thinks I'm arrogant because I'm not trying to be his best friend? Didn't know giantism made people sensitive as well."
"Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be." - Marcelo GarciaComment
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Well, rumor is that the HW GP will be pushed off the arpil 9th show, probably land in Dallas, I am not happy with the delay but this could also mean a CBS spot for the GP, those rumors are also floating around, Gina is rumored to be returning in June and her Dad was a former Cowboy, hey, maybe even Herchel Walker is an option
JoshGrossESPN Josh Gross
JoshGrossESPN Josh GrossJust off the phone w/ Texas commission. Confirmed Strikeforce has secured June 18 in Dallas. They say venue is American Airlines Center.
RT @justinofdoom @JoshGrossESPN Can Barnett fight in texas? ... Yes, they would license him.Liquidrob's Top 10 Fighters Rankings
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Meltzer was the first guy I heard bring up the possibility of CBS after the original sherdog report of the GP delay.
Cant be such a bad guy....lol
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