Ten months ago, Brett "The Grim" Rogers was riding high. He had just knocked out another opponent to improve to 8-0 in his mixed martial arts career, a win that carried special significance because it was the first MMA fight ever carried live on network television.But it hasn't been easy for...
Saturday night's Strikeforce MMA show on Showtime got off to a fast-paced, hard-hitting, hair-pulling start as Brett Rogers knocked out Abongo Humphrey with a series of vicious knees in the second round. Yes, I said hair pulling. Humphrey wears his hair in long dreadlocks, and three times during...
SUNRISE, Fla. -- With the Strikeforce Challengers VI event on Feb. 26 filing up, the organization is now turning it's attention to the March 26 Strikeforce Challengers VII show. MMA Fighting has learned that the organization is targeting a main event involving Lavar Johnson (13-3) and Lolohea Mahe...
In a sign of how much Mike Kyle has done to resurrect his career -- and a sign of how shallow Strikeforce's light heavyweight division is -- Kyle is being discussed as a light heavyweight title contender after choking out Abongo Humphrey on Friday night's Strikeforce Challengers card. Kyle and...
It happened again. For the second time in as many events in the Strikeforce: Challengers series, one of the night's most compelling attractions ended with the winner pleading/demanding to be taken off Challengers and put into a major event. Last time it was Matt Lindland, who's never been shy...
The first Strikeforce event of 2011 takes place on Friday in Tennessee, and it's a Challengers card that has a good array of young talent and five fights on Showtime that should do a lot to identify some of the up-and-coming contenders on the Strikeforce roster.What: Strikeforce Nashville...
All 10 fighters competing on the televised portion of Friday's Strikeforce Challengers 13 made weight on their first visit to the scale. Welterweight contender hopefuls Tyron Woodley and Tarec Saffiedine each weighed in at 170.2 for their main event matchup, which will headline the event at the...
This is the Strikeforce live blog for Ovince St. Preux vs. Abongo Humphrey, a light heavyweight bout on tonight's Strikeforce Challengers 13 on Showtime card from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. OSP (9-4) is coming off a destruction over Benji Radach last month at...
Ovince St. Preux went 6-0 in 2010, and now he's started 2011 in style. St. Preux, a former University of Tennessee football player who became a professional MMA fighter in 2008, dominated Abongo Humphrey in an exciting if not particularly technical fight on Friday night's Strikeforce card. St....
In theory, Strikeforce: Challengers is the event where the prospects carve a name for themselves before moving on to the big show. You know that because the ham-fisted opening sequence tells you, in the most direct and stilted way possible. In reality, there are usually two types of fighters on...
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