By STRIKEFORCE Bantamweight Champion Miesha “Takedown” Tate: You often discover whether you possess fight or flight instincts when the going gets tough. Is it our instinct to escape the situation and run to the nearest safe haven, or do we decide to stand and fight, despite obvious risk, pain and embarrassment? Sometimes we wait our [...]
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Miesha Tate on the Fight that Convinced Her She had the Heart of a Champion
Posted: February 17, 2012 in Latest news, Strikeforce Events0
Strikeforce Press Release: Rousey Blogs about Miesha & early Judo Career
Posted: February 15, 2012 in Latest news, Strikeforce EventsBy ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey In one month, on March 3 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, I will challenge for the women’s bantamweight championship of the world. While I may only have four professional mixed martial arts bouts to my name, I’m far from inexperienced. You might think that, but you’d be wrong. Miesha [...]
Ronda Rousey has a new target…says GSP “needs to step aside and let Nick Diaz kick his ass”
Posted: January 26, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, Strikeforce Events, UFC EventsTags: Fresh
In a video interview with BestofMMA.com, Strikeforce title contender Ronda Rousey calls out none other than Welterweight Kingpin Georges St. Pierre. Check it: It’s about pulling more fans in, and being entertaining. I think that fighters that just try to win by points and come away with a win are actually bad for the sport. [...]
Rousey Trying to Push Miesha’s Buttons via Twitter Pic
Posted: January 25, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, Strikeforce EventsTags: miesha tate, ronda rousey, S-Cla$$
Ronda Rousey is still at it. We’ve seen her continued trash talk in the direction of her next opponent, Miesha Tate and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down. This morning, the Strikeforce challenger tweeted this picture to Champion Tate. For the most part, Rousey has maintained the instigator role in the verbal sparring, but [...]
***Update*** King Mo maintains his innocence – Holy Sh*t! King Mo tests positive for steroids.
Posted: January 17, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, Strikeforce EventsTags: Fresh
There are a few certainties in life…death, taxes and athletes swearing that they never knowingly took PEDs. King Mo recently went on record with Sherdog.com and addressed his positive PED test. “This is my first positive test for anything, I don’t even know what to say. All I know is that the truth will come [...]
Woodley Wants Title Shot; Not Happy with Strikeforce
Posted: January 12, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Rumors, Strikeforce EventsStrikeforce’s top welterweight is itching to be crowned champion, but he’s not exactly sold on how things are panning out. Tyron Woodley, now 8-0, spoke to Sherdog Radio regarding his recent win over Jordan Mein and his concerns over how Strikeforce execs are handling the title situation. What he wanted Scott Coker to announce was, [...]
Answering Some Questions from ‘Strikeforce: Rockhold vs Jardine’
Posted: January 10, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Event Results, Strikeforce EventsTags: S-Cla$$
Fresh and I went to Las Vegas this weekend to check out the Strikeforce show. We were obviously given the VIP treatment from the Strikeforce brass and the entire city of Las Vegas in general. I got to mingle with Miesha Tate and Frank Shamrock and also had a brief run-in with Daniel Cormier afterwards. [...]
Ex-Champ Kaufman Says Rousey’s Afraid of Cyborg; Calls Rousey/Tate Fight “Terrible News”
Posted: January 6, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Rumors, Strikeforce EventsTags: S-Cla$$
Sarah Kaufman is 14-1 in her career with 10 wins by knockout. She’s wanted to fight the current champ Miesha Tate ever since Tate won the title back in July. She’s a former Strikeforce world champion, and even has a huge win over Tate on her record already. It seems to make perfect sense that [...]
Rockhold throws Lesnar under the bus: “I almost saw his lip quirvering”
Posted: January 6, 2012 in Commentary/Opinion, Latest news, Strikeforce EventsTags: Fresh
Luke Rockhold, Strikeforce Middleweight champ, certainly is saying a lot of nutty things prior to his first title defense tomorrow night. First, he’s telling everyone that Jardine isn’t worthy, then yesterday he came out and said he wants to fight Anderson Silva and now today, he’s kicking former UFC heavyweight champ Lesnar to the curb. [...]
Lawler’s Ideal Strikeforce Opponent Would Have No Arms or Legs
Posted: January 5, 2012 in Strikeforce EventsTags: S-Cla$$
Robbie Lawler will be fighting on Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine Saturday on a bit of a slide. He’s lost four of his last six fights since signing with Strikeforce in 2009. The veteran slugger will be facing fast rising Adlan Amagov in the co-main event which promises to be a standup slugfest. Apparently, Amagov is [...]
