After a great night of fights Saturday Strikeforce held the typical post fight presser. They used it to quickly introduce two fighters that couldn’t make it to the morning news conference, Bobby lashleyand Roger Gracie. They then brought out fighters from the card including Scott Smith, King Mo Lawal, Josh Thomson, Gilbert Melendez, Jacare and Matt Lindland. They closed the night out with Cyborg Santos and Nick Diaz to announce their upcoming fights and what they thought about it. Below you can watch the Lawal, Thomson & Melendez, Smith and Diaz press conferences, also if you haven’t seen the weigh-in video you can check it out here.
Interviews
- Exclusive Interview with Lion Fight Promotions CEO, Scott Kent
- Interview with American Muay Thai Fighter, Joe Schilling
- Vanessa Mariscal: Hopeful Invicta FC Stays Around, Could Care less about Ronda Rousey
- Efrain Escudero Gives His Thoughts on the UFC in Mexico, Training with Bendo and Seth Baczynksi Fighting Drunk.
- Pascal Krauss: Fact or Hype?
On Saturday Strikeforce will be coming back home to San Jose for Strikeforce: Evolution. The last time they were in an San Jose was for the Carano vs. Cyborg event. Saturdays main event will be the long awaited lightweight championship rematch between Josh Thomson vs. Gilbert Melendez. There first fight was for Melendez’s Belt and Thomson won a 5 round unanimous decision. The fight card had 5 very solid fight until Robbie Lawlers opponent Trevor Prangley dropped out tuesday due to injury. As of right now Lawlers camp is saying he will not be on Saturdays card, meaning Stikeforce couldn’t find someone on short notice.
