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Top matches for Strikeforce 4/17 Nashville event
By Zach Arnold | March 1, 2010
Jake Shields vs. Dan Henderson, and now Gilbert Melendez vs. Shin’ya Aoki. Aoki, who is under contract to Real Entertainment (the parent company of DREAM), will reportedly not be putting his DREAM title on the line. Gegard Mousasi vs. King Mo is also reportedly on the table, along with Dave Meltzer reporting that there is a push to get Herschel Walker to fight on the Nashville card.
Strikeforce, which reportedly did $8,000USD in merchandise sales for their January event in Florida, might want to step it up a little based on the news that UFC reportedly did $540,000USD in merchandise sales at their Australia event.
Josh Gross regarding why Fedor is not on the April card:
At this pt, expect Fedor to get a new deal with SF. This is akin to a major leaguer holding out for more money.
I’ve long said that Fedor will likely fight in DREAM because there’s more money there than there is in the States. Plus his management knows Japan and what the tea leaves are there. Fedor’s management wants to fight Josh Barnett and that fight in terms of the amount of money needed to book it can only happen in Japan. If it happens in America, not a lot of MMA fans will care and it will lose significant cash. The irony is thick when it comes to Fedor’s management saying that Alistair Overeem is a steroid bully and yet they want to fight Barnett. Amazing how truly scared people are of fighting Overeem at this point.
Andrei Arlovski will reportedly fight in Strikeforce in May. His expected opponent? The incredibly shrinking Bigfoot Silva. On that same proposed May event, Alistair Overeem will fight Brett Rogers. That’s a great match-up for Alistair and a lousy one for Rogers. It’s also a fight that Alistair will take approximately one month after working the K-1 Yokohama Arena event on 4/3.
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