With the lingering bad bad taste in our mouth from last weeks performance Anderson Silva put on Saturdays Strikeforce: Nashville can’t come fast enough. With three title fights this is by far the biggest Strikeforce event to date for the San Jose based promotion. The fact that its on CBS and not Showtime or PPV is awesome for fans yet a double edge blade for Strikeforce. With this big of a main card CBS will be looking for that to mean big numbers in terms of viewer / ratings. Some bad numbers and CBS might believe this is a no win situation and begin to look for a way out. The chances of this card not pulling big numbers though seems unlikely, especially with last weekends UFC 112 still fresh in every one’s minds.
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Strikeforce: Nashville Predictions
Done with Anderson Silva…and I’m not the only one!
Another UFC is in the books now and we were treated to the debacle known as an Anderson Silva title fight. What was suppose to be a classic Top level striking vs. Top level grappler match up turned out to be a slap in the face for MMA. The UFC’s first card held in Abu Dhabi was rounding out to be a card to remember with Matt Hughes chopping down another Gracie in Renzo and The Lightweight Division crowning a new Champ in Frankie Edgar. Unfortunately all that is being talked about and what most will remember first is the Middleweight champs act once again.
Silva vs. Maia lost its luster
Just 6 months ago before Demian Maia took on Nate Marquardt at UFC 102 I thought to myself, If Maia beats Marquardt I would love to see him face Anderson Silva. Maia had entered the UFC 6-0 and rolled through Ryan Jensen, Ed Herman, Jason Macdonald, Nate Quarry & Chael Sonnen on route to Marquardt. At 11-0 and having submitted all his opponents in the UFC, Maia to me looked like the one that could contend with Silva.
UFC Confirms opponent for Anderson Silva
It took only one day for the UFC to find a replacement for the injured Vitor Belfort. Demian Maia will replace injured Belfort to face Anderson Silva for the UFC Middleweight title April 10th at UFC 112.
“Following a hard-fought three round win over Dan Miller at UFC 109 that showed him to be more than just a submission expert, Demian Maia will jump right back into training camp for the biggest fight of his career – an April 10thmeeting with UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in the main event of UFC 112 at Ferrari World on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.”
MMA Valor – Random Thoughts
The last several days news has been dropping like crazy. When this happens we like to review many of these topics in one single post.
- Martin Kampmann has been forced to withdraw from his UFC 111 match with Ben Saunders due to a nasty facial cut above his right eye. Click the link but be warned its pretty nasty http://bit.ly/d8G6IA. Jake Ellenberger has stepped in for Kampmann and will face Ben Saunders at UFC 111.
- Chael Sonnen is running for Oregon state Representative, following in Matt Linland’s footsteps. ~ The guy is talking about a title shot with Anderson Silva yet he also wants to be in politics. To beat Silva he will need to focus 100% on MMA and not 60/40 between MMA & politics.
