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Strikeforce 6/16 Los Angeles (Nokia Theater)
By Zach Arnold | June 16, 2010
- Lightweights: KJ Noons vs. Conor Heun
- Middleweights: Trevor Prangley vs. Tim Kennedy
- Welterweights: Marius Zaromskis vs. Evangelista Cyborg
- Catch weight (195 pounds): Robbie Lawler vs. Renato Babalu
(I’m listing this here since it’s on SF’s site)
Cyborgs girlfriend, Evangilista is up next. Looks super tough, a little ruff around the edges though.
Cyborgs girlfriend wins. I wonder who will be the pitcher and who will catch tonight? Should be on national geographic.
Oops, Renato takes it. Unanimous decision, Babalu looks busted up and speaks inglish like my uncle.
And I hope he doesn’t spell his English words like you do, junior.
As far as the main event, it exposed a lot as far as Strikeforce’s booking is concerned. Just like the Jake Shields/Dan Henderson match, the promotion books a disgruntled fighter in the main event (Robbie Lawler) who was a former Welterweight-turned Middleweight (one of their top Middleweight guys) versus a man who’s a natural Light Heavyweight who may — may drop down to Middleweight.
The irony, of course, is that Babalu is also a frustrated man given that this was his first fight in a year.
Unlike the last time Scott Coker did this, this time it didn’t backfire on him and I’m sure we’ll hear the ‘genius’ of how he’s now created two Middleweight contenders so that when Jake Shields leaves he’ll somehow have a rematch set up for a tournament of sorts.
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“Lightweights: KJ Noons vs. Conor Heun”
Eeeuw.
Hopefully the Diaz brothers show up to add some post fight zazz to that one.
So far so bad
I actually think its a perfectly acceptable card.
It just isn’t great and could have arguably been done better.
It’s still lacking to me, even for a Strikeforce card. But then again they are having the Fedor card 10 days after this one.
That’s no excuse. They knew they had the Fedor card booked already. It’s their fault for over extending. If you combined both of these June cards of theres, it would look like a UFC PPV. But it really shouldn’t be too cards….
You don’t get that this card is meant to be a long-form advertisement for Fedor vs. Werdum? I thought that was pretty obvious.
Just look at the ratings for that Challengers card that came a week after Overeem vs. Rogers. People bitch and moan about Strikeforce having no “continuity”, then ignore when they actually make gains because of the continuity in their scheduling.
This card has nothing to do with Fedor/Werdum. It has everything to do with the EA MMA Game.
And it’s a 6 fight card total. That is pathetically bad to ticket holders. It’s embarrassing to the sport really.
And I don’t see where the continuity comes from this card. It’s not very good. And it’s not like people have to have a free show on Spike to advertise for for the PPV.
Continuity is a problem for Strikeforce in the form of producing relevent title contenders and keeping that cycle alive.
It’s a nice try by the Strikeforce lovers out there. If this was a UFC card, it would be laughed at. Somehow because SF is putting it on, it either gets praise, or random excuses as to why it’s somehow acceptable.
Its definitely a snack.
🙂
This is a bad card on so many levels.
1) The entire card, including undercard is only 6 fights. That’s a slap in the face to every single ticket holder for this event.
2) The treatment of fighters on the last fights of their contract continues to be appauling. The practice of giving fighters naturally bigger opponents is garbage. The funny thing is that I think this will once again blow up in Strikeforce’s face. Babalu is getting older and I question if his chin can take Lawler’s punches. Personally, I think Lawler is going to win this fight.
3) Noons vs. Huen is a complete who cares fight. Huens couldn’t even beat Jorge Gurgel and has no business on any UFC or Strikeforce televised portion of the card.
4) Cyborg vs. Zaromskis is another who cares fight with potentially a huge size difference. Cyborg is going to be a huge Welterweight and Zaromskis should be a LW.
The one fight that does interest me is Prangley vs. Kennedy. This is exactly the type of test that Kennedy needs in his career at this point. Prangley is looking older but still is strong enough to guage exactly what level Kennedy is at.
“Cyborg is going to be a huge Welterweight and Zaromskis should be a LW.”
Really!
I dont know much about Zaromskis, so he’s pretty small?
Wasn’t Cyborg a smallish (and perennially garbage) 205 for awhile?
Not a very good card, but it’s on free TV (besides Showtime being a premium channel) so that’s not so bad. But why is it on a Wednesday? Strikeforce challengers series cards are always on Fridays, and there is no Shobox card this Friday. That is just weird…
This card is a throwback to the old ‘Strikeforce at the Mansion’ shows.
I actually think this is a decent card. It would be a very good undercard for the Fedor event.
I think there’s a complaint to be made about SF running two mediocre cards.
But I like Kennedy vs Prangley. It’s prospect vs tough journeyman.
Cyborg/Zaromskis and Lawler/Babalu should be slugfests. They’re almost carbon copy fights on paper.
This isn’t supposed to be a full card, its basically a promo for EA MMA at E3.
Noons vs Heun was pretty violent. Heun put up a spirited fight!
Remember when Zaromskis was ‘the next big thing’? LOL.
Did people believe that? That’s even funnier than the people who bought into Pat Berry hype.
This is a classic second rate MMA show. Like watching an old KOTC or IFC show or something. I’m not pissed about watching it because its not like I’m paying specifically to see this, and it makes me wish someone was televising those ImpactFC cards. Shit like this is pointless and doesn’t do anything to push the sport forward or whatever, but as long as you realize that going in, and you’re not paying, its not so bad.
None of the fights have been great thus far. They’ve all been watchable though.
It was definitely a second-rate show in terms of relevance, but I enjoyed 6 out of 6 fights.
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Shame on Miguel Torres.
Lol @ trying to throw that knee from that far outside.
Zaromskis must have been seeing double and tried to go for the closer one.
(That one Cyborg is way too far, but I think I can get the one standing a little to the side and in front of him)
He’s got skills, but he’s also seems to have some noticeable gaps that need to be either boarded up or polished over.
I think he’s a DREAM guy though so he’s not gonna be afforded a learning process in Strikeforce.
Unfortunately I doubt he’ll be forced to address his shortcomings in Japan either.
It seems like I lose more for respect for Torres week after week. The dude realizes Cyborg would crush him right? I mean even if he fought Christiane Cyborg he would probably get ragdolled.
Dude you’ve been smashed in two straight. Work on your own game before you talk $h1t.
As for the fights I can’t comment because I wasn’t able to watch. I’m in the middle of a move and Showtime isn’t on yet. Whammy :(.