Latest Strikeforce Stories
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 8:46 AM ET by Mike Chiappetta (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Strikeforce
When Jason "Mayhem" Miller and Jake Shields step into the cage on Saturday, it will match up one of MMA's best known personalities with one of its most underrated fighters.
For all his verbosity and bluster, Miller is highly skilled and well rounded, and presents the surging Shields with a stern challenge in all facets of the fight game.
So how will the Stikeforee middleweight championship fight go down? Let's take a look.
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 1:24 AM ET by Ariel Helwani (RSS feed)
Filed Under: MMA Videos, UFC, Strikeforce, FanHouse Exclusive

HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. --
Dan Henderson is in town to corner Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou in his fight against Gegard Mousasi on Saturday night, but the free agent told FanHouse on Friday that he will also talk to Strikeforce officials about possibly fighting for their organization in the near future.
Henderson refuted a recent
Yahoo! Sports report which stated he had already signed with Strikeforce and also said that he has not closed the door on re-signing with the UFC. Check out the video interview below.
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 1:04 AM ET by Ariel Helwani (RSS feed)
Filed Under: DREAM, MMA Videos, Strikeforce, FanHouse Exclusive

HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. -- DREAM lightweight champion
Shinya Aoki made a special appearance at the Strikeforce weigh-ins on Friday, and FanHouse spoke to "Tobikan Judan" about the possibility of fighting in the United States in the near future.
Aoki also talked about unifying the DREAM and Strikeforce lightweight titles and when he expects to fight again. The full video interview is below.
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 1:00 AM ET by Ariel Helwani (RSS feed)
Filed Under: MMA Videos, Strikeforce, M-1 Global

HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. --
Bojan Elezovic, an artist from the former Yugoslavia who now resides in Canada, traveled to this weekend's Strikeforce event with one goal in mind: get his latest MMA masterpiece in the hands of
Fedor Emelianenko.
FanHouse spoke to Elezovic, who spent months painting a portrait of Emelianenko, about the artwork and his plan to award it to Emelianenko after Saturday night's fight against Brett Rogers. The video interview is below.
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 12:17 AM ET by Michael David Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Strikeforce
Shane del Rosario improved to 9-0 with a first-round submission win over Brandon Cash Friday night at the Strikeforce Challengers Series card in Fresno, and that's not a big surprise, as del Rosario has had nothing but quick wins in his MMA career.
But it was a surprise that Cash actually had del Rosario in big trouble early in the fight: Cash dropped del Rosario with a hard right cross just seconds into the bout, and for a moment it looked like the referee was going to stop the fight. And even after del Rosario recovered, Cash was in the dominant position on the ground, had del Rosario mounted, and looked like he should have been able to finish him.
Posted: Nov 6th 2009 11:51 PM ET by Michael David Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: UFC, Strikeforce
Jesse Taylor, the former
Ultimate Fighter cast member who was kicked off the show for misbehavior and dropped by the UFC after a loss in the Octagon, suffered another setback in losing to
Luke Rockhold on a Strikeforce Challengers Series card in Fresno Friday night.
Taylor, a former wrestler, immediately shot for a takedown and kept working for it until he finally got Rockhold on his back a little over a minute into the first round. But going to the ground turned out to be a mistake: Rockhold showed superior Brazilian jiu jitsu skills, getting Taylor's back, controlling him with a body triangle, and making him tap with a rear-naked choke.
Posted: Nov 6th 2009 6:02 PM ET by Michael David Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Strikeforce, M-1 Global

All 20 fighters will step on the scales on Friday evening in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, for Saturday night's
Strikeforce/M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Rogers fight card. And if you can't be there at the Sears Centre, you can get all the results right here at FanHouse.
The first fighters will step on the scales at 6 PM ET, and the results are below.