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Strikeforce plans for April & May
By Zach Arnold | March 12, 2009
- Frank Shamrock vs. Nick Diaz on 4/11 in San Jose at the HP Pavilion (San Jose Arena) at a catchweight of 179 pounds, semi-main of Gilbert Melendez vs. Josh Thomson at 155 pounds, plus discussion of Phil Baroni vs. Joe Riggs
- Robbie Lawler vs. Jake Shields in May at 185 pounds (Shields is moving up a weight class from 170 pounds), venue TBD (to be determined)
You can always count on Nick Diaz to make a wacky challenge, as he did to fight Frank Shamrock’s son who is in college. Here are some quotes from today’s presser in Southern California.
UFC will answer the Strikeforce 4/11 San Jose show by airing the UFC January 31st event (Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn) on Spike TV.
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The 4/11 show is looking very solid. Can’t wait! Oh, and I would like to see Diaz vs. Shamrock’s kid.
Well, so much for the notion that the UFC wouldn’t counter-program Strikeforce in a predatory fashion if Strikeforce said all the right things publicly and none of the wrong things.
Two Showtime shows…. Two Catchweight Main Events. Why even have weight classes in Strikeforce? Let’s just do everything open weight.
And for the people who will come back saying Franklin/Silva is at a catchweight… I’m not a fan of that either. And Zuffa currently has 13 events scheduled for the first half of 2009, and only one main event is a catch weight.
4/11 is also Bellator debut, I’m curious whether it also has sth to do with ufc counterprogamming
Lol @ “No, and I don’t have no [expletive] dressy suits either,”…
Hopefully if he can pull out a bizarre apparent mismatch like this it puts Diaz back on the map like beating Lawler did back in the day.