The HP Pavilion in San Jose, California will play host to tonight’s Strikeforce/M-1 Global event, “Fedor vs. Werdum.” Fedor is one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport and widely regarded as the best heavyweight on the planet.
His challenger tonight, Fabricio Werdum, will enter the cage as a heavy underdog despite being a top ten talent in the heavyweight division.
Werdum will be looking to take Fedor to the ground and use his elite jiu jitsu skills, but to get the fight down Werdum will be entering dangerous waters with Fedor.  If the fight does hit the mat, Werdum has [...]

Strikeforce invades the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California tonight for an event live on Showtime. “Strikeforce: Los Angeles” is headlined by a catchweight bout between Robbie Lawler and Renato “Babalu” Sobral. Also on the card is Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos vs. Marius Zaramoskis, Tim Kennedy vs. Trevor Prangley, and Conor Heun vs. K.J. Noons.
Heavyweight prospect Bobby Lashley was originally slated to be a part of the card, but he was forced to withdraw due to injury.

Here are the “Strikeforce: Los Angeles” predictions:
*MAIN EVENT: Robbie Lawler vs. Babalu Sobral
PREDICTION: Babalu Sobral def. Robbie Lawler via unanimous decision
*Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos vs. Marius [...]

Main Card
Catchweight (195 lbs) bout: Robbie Lawler (195)* vs. Renato “Babalu” Sobral (193.5)
Welterweight bout: Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos (171) vs. Marius Zaramoskis (169.5)
Middleweight bout: Tim Kennedy (185.5) vs. Trevor Prangley (185.6)
Catchweight (160lb) bout: Conor Heun (159.5) vs. K.J. Noons (159.5)

Prelim Card
Catchweight (160 lbs) bout: R.J. Clifford (159.5) vs. Jeremy Umphries (159.5)
Bantamweight bout: Marcus Kowal (134.75) vs. Hugo Sandoval (135.5)
* – Lawler was 1/2 pound over weight (195.5) and was given time to make the contracted weight.

By Alexia Krause
With Strikeforce Live a day away, the heat is getting turned up for a showdown between two hard-hitting opponents. “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler will take on former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Renato “Babalu” Sobral for a fight that is bound to go beyond the octagon and strike at the hearts of the two fighters. In fact, Sobral was quoted as saying that he has “hate in his heart leading up to the fight and his trainer is making it clear that his hate will be taken out in the ring against [...]

One of Strikeforce’s top lightweight prospects, Lyle “Fancy Pants” Beerbohm, advanced his record to an impressive 14-0 at this past weekend’s ‘Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery’ event.
Fancy Pants earned a split decision win over Shaolin Ribeiro (20-4). The decision was very controversial, but due to poor production and time management by the Strikeforce organization fans were not able to see the fight. The fight was not even available on the Strikeforce website.
Strikeforce missed a golden opportunity to show the bout with a half hour remaining in their broadcast. They opted to end without showing any preliminary bouts. Fancy Pants could make some [...]

Strikeforce women’s middleweight champion Cris Cyborg learned that her next title defense would be against veteran fighter Jan Finney at a June 26th event in San Jose, California that is being co-promoted by Strikeforce and M-1 Global.
The news was first confirmed by a report on MMAJunkie.com.
Cyborg (9-1) has not tasted defeat since she dropped her MMA debut in 2005. Since entering Strikeforce, Cyborg has dominated her competition — winning all three fights in the organization by way of TKO.
The challenger, Finney, will enter the cage with a mediocre record of 8-7. Finney has faced some of the top women fighters [...]

The Strikeforce organization showcases the heavyweights tonight at the Scottrade Center  in St. Louis, Missouri. ‘Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery’ will be broadcast live on Showtime and features a heavyweight title fight between champion Alistair Overeem and Brett Rogers.
Overeem (32-11, 1 NC) has not tasted defeat since September of 2007, while the challenger Rogers (10-1) is coming off of the first loss of his career after being knocked out by top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko.
Also on the card is a heavyweight battle between Andrei Arlovski and Antonio Silva. ‘Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery’ also features: Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, Roger Gracie, Joey Villasenor, Kevin Randleman, Rafael [...]

“I wouldn’t call any of use troublemakers growing up … sometimes trouble would find you.”
“People have always looked at me and wanted to fight me or beat me or something, ever since as long as I can remember.”
Video courtesy of Fight Magazine:
Nick Diaz, water polo player? As strange as that may sound, the Strikeforce Welterweight champ once sought glory inside a swimming pool. Good thing that didn’t work out, as Nick and his brother Nathan have become two of MMAs most popular – and controversial fighters. In part 1 of this FIGHT! Life series, the Diaz boys take [...]

Strikeforce: Nashville takes place this weekend and will be nationally televised on CBS. The main card is a championship triple-header that will see the middleweight, lightweight, and light-heavyweight titles on the line.
Saturday’s event will take place at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville and will be Strikeforce’s Tennessee debut.
The night’s main event features a middleweight title match between current champion Jake Shields and Strikeforce newcomer Dan Henderson. Shields is a natural 170-pounder, so he will be facing the toughest challenge of his career against the former UFC and PRIDE legend. Shields has slick jiu-jitsu, but Henderson has [...]

Strikeforce: Nashville takes place this weekend and will be nationally televised on CBS. The main card is a championship triple-header that will see the middleweight, lightweight, and light-heavyweight titles on the line.
Here are the official weigh-in results:
Main Card
Jake Shields (184.75) vs. Dan Henderson (185)
Gilbert Melendez (154.5) vs. Shinya Aoki (154.5)
Gegard Mousasi (204.5) vs. Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal (204.25)
Undercard
Jason “Mayhem” Miller (185) vs. Tim Stout (186)
Chris Hawk (205.75) vs. Ovince Saint Preux (205.5)
Dustin West (169.5) vs. Andy Uhrich (171.5)
Josh Shockman (205.25) vs. Cale Yarbrough (203.75)
Zach Underwood (179.5) vs. Hunter Worsham (180.5)
Dustin Ortiz (125) vs. Justin Pennington (124.25)
Cody Floyd (145.25) vs. Thomas [...]