Spoiler Thread !!!! June 6th Strikeforce

Kazooie

Just though I'd let ye know, the Pitbull will be fighting on the Lawler Shields Strikeforce card on June 6th. His opponenet will be Brett Rogers. I'll be honest I've never heard of him. :rolleyes:

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/arlovski-rogers-added-to-strikeforce-17545

So the Boxing rumours are still just rumours for now. Although the article mentions this could be regarded as the last of his 3 fight contract with affliction.

No unnesseary flying knees ya big eejit!

Professey Chin

Brett was an Elite-XC heavyweight.Very heavy handed but hasnt really faced good competition. Arlovskis a massive step up for him.
Arlovski fights smart - Easy win
He fights stupid - I could see him getting KOd

cowzerp

Arlovski can box a bit and is all round a good MMA fighter but his chin means he'd never last in Boxing, and its what stops him been the no 1 heavyweight in MMA in my opinion.. His size and skills make him immense.

calex71

Always been a bigish fan of Arlovski's style but yes his chin does almost say break glass incase of emergency on it

Kazooie

I can see why people say he has a glass jaw but I don't think it's as bad as some make out. He lasted more than two rounds with Rizzo who's probably regarded as one of the biggest punchers ever. The combo that took him out broke his nose.The fedor KO would have taken down a Bear. And the 3rd fight with Sylvia he went 5 rounds taking a lot of shots.

The 2nd Sylvia fight granted that was a weak shot that KO'd him. And yes I do remember Datsik.

Jason Mc

his nickname in the early days was "The candle", one blow and he was out:rolleyes:

calex71

Arlovski was on inside mma this week, well worth checking out especially when bas tells the story of why arlovski is not fighting overeem lol

To add this is looking to be a STACKED card indeed!!!!

OMCCABE

calex71 wrote: »

Arlovski was on inside mma this week, well worth checking out especially when bas tells the story of why arlovski is not fighting overeem lol

To add this is looking to be a STACKED card indeed!!!!

Have you been watching Inside MMA online? If so any chance of a link. Since they took it off Sherdo I've been missing my fix

Hephaestus

Link

hmmmmmm

is there any satelite channel showing this, i need my mma fix

calex71

Bump as this is on tonight. excellent card again for strikeforce.
And then tomorrow night the Brown and Faber rematch on wec . I'm really 50/50 on that one.

A good weekend for us by the looks of it.

Fromvert

Has been a great card so far, Lawler/Shields up now should be a great fight.

Arlovski's chin no good, its a shame really:( has so much going for him. Diaz was really playing with Smith for most of the fight, has so much potential.

rovert

Fangs for the memories

Dancor

Felt so bad for him after the fight, looked like he was going to cry

calex71

you said it there Rovert

one of my favorite fighters, i have had to accept has the same nick name as my favorite band

glassjaw

although those were some shots , maybe he could have recovered it WAS a fair and good stopage.

Only thing that will cheer me up now is Brown beating faber..... AGAIN tonight :pac:

Killme00

Just got done watching this

Nick Diaz is wierd and very disrespectful to his opponent

Arlofski vs the fat clubber lang, wtf

All in all i thought it was a poor show especially if they are trying to compete with the big boys, i mean Randleman vs Whitehead ffs

Killme00

whta time is wec on at?

Nothingcompares

Killme00 wrote: »

Just got done watching this

Nick Diaz is wierd and very disrespectful to his opponent

Arlofski vs the fat clubber lang, wtf

All in all i thought it was a poor show especially if they are trying to compete with the big boys, i mean Randleman vs Whitehead ffs

just watched this, thought it was brilliant, all enjoyable fights.

can anyone elaborate on what diaz was saying about smith's camp? does smith train with faber? was he calling them a pack of mercenaries?

Kazooie

Not gonna defend him anymore. AA can't take a punch. Will never make it in Boxing as it's not somethin you can teach. Well, thanks for the memories. You've put on some entertaining fights, win or lose.

dunkamania

Have amended the title so no need for spoiler tags.

I thought this was the best event I have seen in the last couple of months. The Whitehead Randleman fight wasnt great, but the rest were all exciting, even when one sided.

Diaz through over 800 punhes in his fight. I have never seen so many flying knees in a fight. The fact that Riggs had 2 broken hands just makes his win all the better. The arm in guillotine by Shields was really slick as well.

SuperWoody101

Yes I must agree, this was a great event. Look forword to there next event.

calex71

Josh Barnet going after Fedor at the end of the interview made me chuckle.

Not a fan of Diaz the guy (as im sure many aren't) but as a fighter I have to say i do love his punching style.

Is it just my memory of did Big John Mc ref all the matches?

Dragan

Some very nice fights.

Was happy to see Rogers win, if only because he was buried in EliteXC.

Diaz - Smith was an awesome fight. I ****ing love Diaz.

Shields impressed the hell out of me, super slick win.

mirwillbeback

calex71 wrote: »

Josh Barnet going after Fedor at the end of the interview made me chuckle.

Not a fan of Diaz the guy (as im sure many aren't) but as a fighter I have to say i do love his punching style.

Is it just my memory of did Big John Mc ref all the matches?

Strangely enough, he's one of my top three favourite fighters. Sure he's a punk, but he makes no secret of it and tells it like it is. Slapping Scott Smiths hand outta the way was hilarious. He is a legit threat to anyone in the UFC I believe, his boxing is unorthodox and no one seems to be able to figure it out, and his jits is amazing ( gogoplata on Gomi anyone ? )

WAR DIAZ

dunkamania

Big John did ref all main card fights, dont know about the undercard.

Still not sold on Diaz, want to see him against a solid wrestler, before I buy into the hype.

Locomotion

UFC really need to pick up Nick Diaz and Jake Shields.

And Robbie Lawler for that matter!

calex71

came across this for the Diaz fight

dunkamania

Not sure where I saw 800 strikes thrown......

calex71

dunkamania wrote: »

Not sure where I saw 800 strikes thrown......

I think those where the stats from either the 1st or the 2nd round, as smith would have thrown way more in the course of the fight.

Which makes it even more impressive , also i think he set a new record on compustrike for punchs thrown or landed in one round previously help by michael bispbing. Cant find the artical i was looking at earlier on that.

edit : http://www.compustrike.com/stats.php?news_id=69

Man, Arlovski just cannot take a punch and it seems to have gotten worse. I'll be suprised to see him go on any kind of a run again tbh. I'd say mentally that fight is the one that pushed him right over the edge (after Fedor put him on the edge).


Very impressed with Shields. I didn't think Lawler fought smart at all tbh.

ginoginelli

Solid card. I fookin love watchin diaz fight as well.. Hes hilarious!