Mike Kyle Calls Out Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Rafael Feijao, Eager For A Rematch

Mike Kyle has already beaten Rafael Feijao before, back in June of 2009 at the Strikeforce ‘Lawler vs Shields’ event.  Kyle feels that he has what it takes to beat him in a rematch bout and plans on stealing that title from him very soon…

Strikeforce Heavyweight Match-Ups Under Negotiations With Possible ‘Overeem vs Silva’ Title Fight, Fedor May Sign 4-6 More Fights

The Strikeforce heavyweight division looks to be very limited as match makers continue to discuss possible future bouts for the second half of 2010.  Fabricio Werdum is coming off a submission win over Fedor Emelianenko and was supposed to face current champ Alistair Overeem for the Strikeforce heavyweight title.  Unfortunately, Werdum will be sidelined until early 2011 due to an ongoing elbow injury he needs to take care of.

Fedor Emelianenko is currently under negotiations as he has one fight left in his Strikeforce contract.  In a recent interview, Fedor tells us that he is looking into signing for 4-6 more fights under Strikeforce and makes it clear that he is not interested in the UFC right now.  The possibility of a rematch against Werdum may occur in 2011, but he’d rather fight someone else in the meantime because that would be too much time off.  So that leaves Fedor up in the air waiting for a heavyweight opponent as well.

Antonio ‘Big Foot’ Silva is coming off a huge win over former UFC heavyweight champ Andrei ‘The Pitbull’ Arlovski.  He’s open to face anyone in the heavyweight division and a fight against Fedor would make the most sense since they are both 1-1 in the Strikeforce promotion.  However, there are rumors of a heavyweight title fight between Overeem and Silva sometime later this year.

Brett Rogers will have to wait his turn as he has lost back to back fights against Fedor and to Overeem.  No word as of yet who he’d be facing next either.

The only official upcoming heavyweight fight will be WWE wrestler Bobby Lashley who is scheduled to face Chad Griggs at the Strikeforce ‘Houston’ event on August 21st.  The winner of these two fighters can be put into the mix with other top Strikeforce heavyweights.

We’ll keep you guys posted on the official Strikeforce heavyweight match-ups, but here’s what some of the fighters had to say this week…

From Alistair Overeem:

“Fabricio (Werdum) will not be ready until the beginning of next year so I’m not sure who he’ll be fighting next because of the time he’ll be taking off. Hopefully we’ll have Overeem back in the cage in October. Against who, we don’t know. It might be ‘Bigfoot’ Silva [but] the heavyweight division hasn’t been determined and we’re still having ongoing dialogue with M-1. That should flesh out here pretty soon and once we come to a deal with them on when (Fedor will) fight, who he’ll fight, and with Fabricio out, I think the rest of the division will kind of unfold itself before the end of the year. I don’t think [Emelianenko vs. Overeem] will happen this year.”

From Antonio Silva:

“I know what you already know. Strikeforce hasn’t been in touch with my manager Alex Davis yet to make the fight 100-percent confirmed. Anyway, I’m already training for it.”

From Fedor Emelianenko:

“For now M-1 Global works with Strikeforce and we are concentrating on that, the contract is not over yet. So for now we don’t have any interest in the UFC. So far I feel very comfortable fighting, very good with my fighting, and I’m planning of fighting as long as I can physically. As far and I’m concerned we should discuss the possibility of signing another contract for 4-6 fights.”

Strikeforce MMA Fighter Scott ‘Hands of Steel’ Smith Announces Move To 170 Pounds

Mayhem Miller Responds To Nick Diaz Trash Talk Video

Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller called out Nick Diaz in a recent video with ‘The Voice’ on HDNet.  Diaz responded to the interview by posting a video on YouTube, calling out Miller and telling him to meet at 170 lbs. for a possible Strikeforce match-up.  Miller would then respond to the video by posting on his Twitter account:

“So now Nick Diaz is suddenly a 170 pounder only when he has to fight someone who can whip his ass? Not so gangster, is he?…I just pissed in a quiznos cup while driving on the 5 fwy, late to @ellismate’s show. THAT is gangster.”

Sarah Kaufman KO Slam Win Over Roxane Modafferi Comes Fourth On ESPNs ‘Plays of the Week’

Nick Diaz Responds To Mayhem Miller Comments, Calls Hims Out To Fight At 170

Mayhem Miller Eager To “Legally” Beat Up Nick Diaz In A Cage

Fabricio Werdum Explains How He Submitted and Defeated Fedor Emelianenko

Scott Coker Admits He Predicted Werdum To Beat Fedor, Talks About Lashley and Strikeforce Tournament

Jake Shields: “I’m Brand New To The UFC But They Have Treated Me Better Than Strikeforce”

The former Strikeforce middleweight champion and possible future UFC fighter Jake Shields talks about how comfortable he feels with the North American MMA organization.  He pretty much bashes Strikeforce in different ways and tells us how he would like his Cesar Gracie teammates, Gilbert Melendez and Nick Diaz, to follow his foot steps toward the UFC.

From Jake Shields:

“I’m brand new to the UFC but they have treated me absolutely wonderful much better than Strikeforce to this point. They return my phone calls and I get seats unlike Strikeforce but so far things have been absolutely perfect. I don’t want to knock Strikeforce because that’s not my style even though they did treat me like shit which was unnecessary because I never talked bad about them. Honestly I would love to see Gilbert and Nick in the UFC. Even though Strikeforce is a good show, everyone knows it’s the number two show. They have a handful of good fighters but all the top competition is in the UFC and I feel that Nick and Gilbert are good enough to fight at the highest level. I just don’t see Strikeforce putting the marketing strength behind him as they didn’t for me. I feel like they (Strikeforce) want to go after the places that have already been built like Shamrock or Cung Le. They don’t seem really interested in building top young fighters in their prime. They had a great batch of young fighters like me, Nick, Gil and King Mo but they weren’t interested in great young fighters and instead all the push went to ‘has beens’ like Shamrock and Cung Le. It seemed like they wanted to push people who were no where near their prime.”

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