Recent WEC competitor and Chicago-area fighter Jeff Curran (29-12-1) has signed with Strikeforce and will appear on the preliminary card of the organization's Nov. 7 event.
Curran announced his participation via Facebook on Tuesday.
The upcoming Strikeforce event takes place just outside Chicago at the Sears Centre. The night's main card airs on CBS.
Rolles Gracie (3-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC), part of MMA's legendary Gracie clan, has signed a multi-fight deal with the UFC and is expected to meet fellow heavyweight Mostapha Al-Turk (6-5 MMA, 0-2 UFC) at UFC 109 in February.
Gracie and his management team announced the signing via Twitter on late Tuesday.
Although not officially announced by the organization, UFC 109 is expected to take place Feb. 6 in Las Vegas.
Going head to head with Strikeforce's CBS debut and its headliner between Fedor Emelianenko and Brett Rogers, the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Spike TV debuts its "UFC Main Events: Couture vs. Nogueira" special on Nov. 7.
Spike TV Vice President of Sports and Specials, Brian J. Diamond, revealed news of the special on today's edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio.
The two-hour special features four major bouts from 2009, including Randy Couture vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 102, that have never previously aired on free television.
Monte Cox was right, Tim Sylvia is much better off outside the UFC. Ugh! The former UFC champ on the advice of his manager, Cox, headed for "greener" pastures. He lost in 36 seconds to Fedor Emelianenko and just 11 seconds to 100-year-old boxer Ray Mercer. He does have that big win over Jason Riley. Up next? It could be freak-du-jour Hong Man Choi. In a story first mentioned by The Fight Nerd, Cox confirmed with AOL Fanhouse's Ariel Helwani that Sylvia has committed to fight for DREAM on New Year's Eve.
The 7-foot-2, 320-pound Choi was knocked from DREAM's Super Hulk tournament in September when YouTube - Hong Man Choi vs Ikuhisa Minowa 2 of 2. All kidding aside, Sylvia should destroy Choi and start back up the ladder towards legitimate heavyweights. There's nothing wrong with another fight to help him repair that wounded ego.
Last night was a big night for upcoming fight rumors. Gray Maynard v. Nate Diaz leads the way. Robbie Lawler is rumored to have been offered a December date against Ronald "Jacare" Souza or Nick Diaz. And the UFC has signed another Gracie.
Little has been heard from Robbie Lawler since losing to Jake Shields at a Strikeforce event in June, but FanHouse has learned that the former EliteXC middleweight champion has been offered to return on Strirkeforce's December card. Lawler has verbally agreed to fight at the end of the year but no opponent has been finalized.
FanHouse has also learned that two opponents have been talked about to face Lawler: Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza and Nick Diaz.
Lawler's agent Monte Cox would not confirm nor deny Lawler's involvement on the card, but he did tell FanHouse last month that he wasn't interested in having Lawler fight "Jacare" in the near future.
"Jacare" recently signed with Strikeforce, but has yet to fight for the organization.
Diaz defeated Lawler via second-round knockout at UFC 47 in April 2004. He hasn't competed since defeating Scott Smith on the same June card in St. Louis, and was scheduled to fight Jay Hieron for the vacant welterweight title in August before pulling out after failing to show up to a pre-fight drug test administered by the California State Athletic Commission.
MMA Junkie recently reported that Strikeforce is looking to hold their December "Arena Series" show in their home base of San Jose, Calf., but no date or venue has been officially announced.
is it just me, or do all these fighters on TUF suck?
ive seen no legit heavyweights fight yet.
nelson maybe, schaub has potential, but the rest seem terrible
This entire season has been terrible. The only thing worth tuning in for is the pranks. The actual fights are awful. I'm just blown away at how low the skill level is, especially considering many of these guys, such as Wes Sims, are long time veterans of the sport.
Big Country's fight was horrible, because Kimbo is horrible.
Big country should win this season, unless something happens and I'd be VERY surprised if he's stunned by some of this competition.
I agree Nelson should take this fairly easy. Rampage is a dip**** for a coach. He can be funny at times but unless it was just edidted that way he should have shut up about the titties before the fight.
GO VOLS
From what little I can piece together from the short training clips it seems to me that Rashad's guys are getting far better coaching in general than Rampage's guys.
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