Strikeforce Jan 30th (Cyborg, Walker, Diaz)

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Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker described Nagy as “tall and aggressive.”

lol@tall

High praise indeed

 

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Tomato Can should be his name. How do they go from Rosario to this dude?

Well, 3/5 ain't bad.

 

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The Walker fight is fine, dude is 47 and is 0-0, no excuse with Lashley

 

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Tomato Can should be his name. How do they go from Rosario to this dude?

Well, 3/5 ain't bad.

I guess Lashleys camp turned it down

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

they should of at least given lashley someone with a name. anybody. now its pretty much a lose-lose situation. if lashley wins, big deal he beat up some no-name scrub and he if he loses there goes his credibility and hype cause he lost to some no-name scrub.

 

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Preview vid for Strikeforce: Miami

No mention of Zaromskis, Manhoef, Lawler, just Diaz, Cyborg and Walker

http://www.strikeforce.com/

Time to step your game up SF

 

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Looks like Walker was on Howard Stern this morning, will be on 'Fox and Friends' today also, I'm sure he will be all over the place before the 30th, thats a good sign, hopefully Walker can get some decent ratings for this show

 

[EmpireWF]

Hopefully all the folks in the media don't treat it like a joke.

Over two weeks left, I hope momentum for the show picks up. The great match-ups are certainly there.

 

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According to Allan Fields, chief physician for the Florida Boxing Commission that also oversees MMA sanctioning:
Walker passed the "most strenuous tests that possibly you can impose on an athlete."

A stress test on Walker's heart given by a "major cardiac institution," Fields said, produced the highest score of anyone ever tested by facility.

"He's in as fine a shape as Muhammad Ali or any of these people we've had the care of," said Fields, a former U.S. Olympic team physician. "This guy is 47 going on 22, as far as his physical fitness goes."

Even so, Walker acknowledged there will be skeptics.

"There have been some athletes that have been totally an embarrassment," Walker said. "Jose Canseco, it's insulting, the guy never trained. I'm a guy that's serious about this. This is fighting, you get hurt

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/1/13/1249258/strikeforce-miami-preview-herschel

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

if walker doesnt get johnnie morton'd i would be shocked

 

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if walker doesnt get johnnie morton'd i would be shocked

I don't think he will, who knows what Morton was training, I think he just juiced and thought he would win, Walker has been doing Martial Arts for a while, I know that could be some crappy TKD, but just training at AKA for a couple months and grappling with a HW like Cain is more than anyone who tried to jump in has probably done

 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGOC1McG9g"]YouTube- Strikeforce - Nick Diaz vs Marius Zaromskis + Bobby Lashley vs Herschel Walker - January 30, 2010[/ame]

 

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How dare Walker talk about the man who went toe-to-toe with a 7-2, 300+ pound behemoth, Vai Sikahema AND Danny Bonaduce? The old man wishes his fighting career was as fruitful as Canseco's.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

classy move by walker..

Herschel Walker plans to donate his entire purse from his professional mixed martial arts debut to charity.

Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner and 1992 Olympian, will meet Greg Nagy in a featured matchup at Strikeforce “Miami” on Jan. 30 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. The soon-to-be 48-year-old will surrender his purse to Project Turnaround, a Dallas-based charity that aims to “rebuild communities from the inside out with a comprehensive, faith-based program designed to improve and enrich the lives of urban youth and families.”

“When I decided to fight, it wasn’t anything I was doing for money,” Walker said. “I love competition; I love to compete. It just so happens I was going to get paid. What I wanted to do was help someone else. I’ve been blessed in life through a lot of different things.”

One of college football’s greatest players, he led the University of Georgia to an undefeated season and national championship as a freshman in 1980 and won the Heisman Trophy two years later. He rushed for 5,259 yards and 49 touchdowns in 33 games as a collegian and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.

After a stint in the now-defunct United States Football League, Walker spent 12 seasons in the NFL with the Cowboys, Vikings, Eagles and Giants. The Wrightsville, Ga., native still ranks eighth on the all-time list with 18,168 all-purpose yards, ahead of such hall of famers as Marcus Allen, Thurman Thomas, Tony Dorsett and Jim Brown.

A fifth-degree black belt in tae kwon do, Walker signed with Strikeforce in September.

“I’ve followed MMA for a long, long time,” Walker said. “I love it, and I want to help promote it. This is a wonderful sport. It’s a human chess game. How can a sport that combines all that -- jiu-jitsu, judo, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling -- not be one of the best sports out there?”

Walker has trained alongside elite fighters like Jon Fitch, Cain Velasquez, Mike Swick and former Strikeforce lightweight champion Josh Thomson at the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif., for the last nine weeks. He will have spent some three months at the revered camp by the time he enters the cage for the first time.

“It’s tough, a lot tougher than I ever thought it would be,” Walker said. “Bob Cook, Javier Mendes, Dave Camarillo -- those guys have really been great coaches and mentors. And the guys there made me feel at home. I wanted them to get me ready to fight, and I told them if they didn’t feel like I could do this, I wouldn’t do it.

“All the things I learned in martial arts I had to forget about and start over again, learning the stand-up game, learning the ground game,” he added. “The kind of martial arts I learned first was great, but this is a totally different field.”

In Nagy, he faces a man who debuted in August 2009 and has since split two fights under the Rage in the Cage banner.

“Greg’s been fighting a little over a year. He’s a young guy, tough guy. It’s going to be a tough fight,” Walker said. “I wanted someone who had been fighting a little more than me. I wanted it to be a true MMA fight. A lot of other athletes who have gotten into this have been an embarrassment to themselves and to MMA. I feel pretty good about it. I’ve still got a couple weeks to go, but I’m going to be ready. Whenever I do anything, I prepare myself.”

Walker remains undecided on whether or not he will compete again after he faces Nagy in a matter of weeks. He turns 48 in March.

“I have to take it one step at a time,” Walker said. “I’m going to start with Jan. 30, do well and see how I feel, because I am a little older. I’m not trying to fool anyone. I’m not sure how my body’s going to react to this.”

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http://mmajunkie.com/news/17552/her...ntinues-today-with-three-espn-appearances.mma

With Herschel Walker's (0-0 MMA, 0-0 SF) mixed martial arts debut a little more than two weeks away, the former football star is doing everything he can to help promote the event.

Walker continues the efforts today with three separate appearances on the ESPN family of networks.

The 47-year-old Walker will use the appearances to promote his Jan. 30 bout with a much-younger Greg Nagy (1-1 MMA, 0-0 SF) on the Showtime-broadcast main card of "Strikeforce: Miami" on Jan. 30 in Sunrise, Fla.

Walker will spend most of the day at ESPN's Bristol, Conn., campus.

The Heisman Trophy winner starts the day by returning for his second appearance on ESPN2's daily morning sports show, "ESPN First Take," at 11:40 a.m. ET (8:40 a.m. PT).

Walker infamously challenged UFC president Dana White to a fight when he first appeared on the program this past September, but the Georgia native was far more composed in Wednesday appearances on "Fox & Friends" and "The Howard Stern Show."

Just two-and-a-half hours after the slot on "ESPN First Take," Walker makes an appearance on ESPNews. The second appointment is scheduled for 2:10 p.m. ET (11:10 a.m. PT).

Rounding out Walker's tour will be a 3:25 p.m. ET (12:25 p.m. PT) interview on "The Scott Van Pelt Show" that will be broadcast simultaneously on ESPN2 and ESPN Radio.

While Walker has never fought professionally, the two-time Pro Bowl running back is a longtime practitioner of traditional martial arts and has earned a sixth-degree black belt in tae kwon do while also training in Muay Thai and Kenpo karate.

 

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http://mmajunkie.com/news/17563/yoh...-bobby-lashley-awaits-opponent-for-jan-30.mma

Strikeforce officials today officially announced a six-bout preliminary card for the Jan. 30 "Strikeforce: Miami" event, but one final piece of the fight card puzzle has been pulled from the table.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has learned from sources close to the event that heavyweight Yohan Banks (2-1 MMA, 2-0 SF) was not approved by the Florida State Boxing Commission as an opponent for Bobby Lashley (4-0 MMA, 0-0 SF), and the former WWE star is still without an opponent for the event.

An FSBC representative said the decision to decline Banks as an opponent for Lashley was made based on a review of the fighters' records, at which point the commission "determined that the bout was not competitive."

Banks has fought twice under the Strikeforce banner in bouts contested on the promotion's "Young Guns" events, a now-defunct series that served as the predecessor to the current prospect-based "Challengers Series" events. Banks most recent outing was a 19-second knockout win over Michael Diaz in September 2008.

Meanwhile, Lashley has earned four-straight wins since turning pro in December 2008. While Lashley is often criticized for his performance in a lackluster March 2009 decision win over Jason Guida, the massive heavyweight's remaining three wins have all come by stoppage – and in a combined time of 4:22.

While Strikeforce now has one hole to fill, the organization did officially announce a six-bout preliminary card. In addition to four fights previously reported by MMAjunkie.com, the promotion added Michael Byrnes (0-2 MMA, 0-0 SF) vs. David Zitnik (3-5 MMA, 0-0 SF) and Hayder Hassan (2-1 MMA, 0-0 SF) vs. Ryan Keenan (3-0 MMA, 0-0 SF) to the evening's non-televised schedule.

Just 19 years old, Byrnes made his professional debut one year ago. The lightweight was dealt stoppage losses in each of the contests, including an April loss to Marcelo Cabral with just one second left on the clock in the first round.

Meanwhile, Zitnik seeks to bounce back from an April 2009 loss to Steven Tamburo. After opening his career in 2006 with three-straight defeats, Zitnik has since bounced back to a resepctable 3-2 in his past five outings.

An American Top Team product, Hassan debuted professionally in February 2009 with a nine-second TKO win over Kenny Allen. Hassan followed up the win with a second victory in April, but he suffered his first loss to Julio Gallegos in September 2009. The Strikeforce bout will mark his first action since the defeat.

A Team Gracie Orlando product, Keenan seeks to keep his undefeated mark intact. Keenan debuted professionally in 2008, and all three of his wins have come by stoppage. His highest profile victory to date came in a February 2009 over "The Ultimate Fighter 6" cast member Blake Bowman.

Strikeforce also officially announced the long rumored heavyweight contest between Herschel Walker (0-0 MMA, 0-0 SF) and Greg Nagy (1-1 MMA, 0-0 SF).

With the changes to the card, "Strikeforce: Miami" now includes:

MAIN CARD

* Nick Diaz vs. Marius Zaromskis (for vacant welterweight title)
* Champ Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos vs. Marloes Coenen (for women's featherweight title)
* Robbie Lawler vs. Melvin Manhoef
* Bobby Lashley vs. TBA
* Greg Nagy vs. Herschel Walker

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired)

* Jay Hieron vs. Joe Riggs
* Pablo Alfonso vs. Marcos da Matta
* Michael Byrnes vs. David Zitnik
* Sabah Homasi vs. John Kelly
* David Gomez vs. Craig Oxley
* Hayder Hassan vs. Ryan Keenan

 

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Don't know why Banks was not approved, he is 2-1 (2-0 in SF), also has 5 Pro Boxing matches, Lashley is only 4-0 and hasnt fought anyone good yet, I didn't like the match up, but dont know why it was not approved

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

lol wow. even the commission wouldn't allow that can beat-down.

 

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call Mike Kyle