WAMMA heavyweight champion and Strikeforce marquee attraction Fedor Emelianenko (31-1) will likely return to the CBS airwaves in April 2010 when he welcomes a challenge from Fabricio Werdum (13-4-1) in a bout tentatively scheduled for the next installment of “Saturday Night Fights.”
While nothing is official at this time, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker confirmed his intentions [...]
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“I must fight in February or March, and I imagine that it could be against (Andrei) Arlovski. I lost to him by 2-1, it was an ugly fight, nobody liked, but I never choose opponents, I can fight anyone, but then I wanna fight Fedor.”
–Strikeforce heavyweight contender Fabricio Werdum talks about a possible rematch [...]
It may not be the fight he was after, but Brazilian submission ace Fabricio Werdum (12-4-1) will still get his shot on CBS.
MMAjunkie.com has learned from sources close to the event that “Vai Cavalo” has verbally agreed to appear on the main card of “Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers.”
The UFC and PRIDE veteran’s opponent has not [...]
” … the fight starts standing. I’ll train standing as on the ground, but I’ll give more emphasis to the ground. I like to train and fight standing, and it hasn’t that thing of taking the fight directly to the ground. It’s difficult to take Overeem to the ground. In the other time that we [...]