Erin Toughill Drops out of Strikeforce Bout Against Marloes Coenen

by ufc4 on Oct 28, 2009 12:21 AM EDT

The November 7th Strikeforce card has suffered its first casualty, according to MMAWeekly.com:

A Nov. 7 fight that was bound to determine a contender to Strikeforce 145-pound women’s champion Cris "Cyborg" Santos is off.

Sources informed MMAWeekly.com on Tuesday that the showdown between Erin Toughill (10-2-1) and Marloes Coenen (16-3), scheduled for the undercard of Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers, is off the card.

Toughill had to withdraw due to an undisclosed medical condition.

Hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come as Strikeforce has had trouble with fighters dropping out of fights before. Diaz and Overeem are two names that immediately come to mind, with all the big names on this card and the exposure it will get being on CBS Strikeforce can't afford to have this event run anything but smoothly.

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Luckily, this was a prelim fight that wasn’t scheduled to be on television. Wonder if they will scrap the fight altogether or get a replacement against Coenen.

Paging Cindy Dandois for an awesome rematch!
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by MMASuPreMaCy on Oct 28, 2009 3:43 AM EDT reply actions

Damn

was looking forward to that fight, could’ve ended spectacularly and made the broadcast

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by ElliotMatheny on Oct 28, 2009 3:59 AM EDT reply actions

They don’t show the prelims even if they’re good.

by omigawda on Oct 30, 2009 12:56 AM EDT up reply actions

I heard Strikeforce is also trying to talk to La Rosa as well.
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by MMASuPreMaCy on Oct 28, 2009 5:11 AM EDT reply actions

Oooooohhhh

LaRosa/ Coenen would be a slobberknocker, for sure

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by ElliotMatheny on Oct 28, 2009 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions

by Nick Thomas on Oct 28, 2009 9:05 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs

On the good news side, the fight deserved to be on a main card anyways.

by Nick Thomas on Oct 28, 2009 9:11 AM EDT reply actions

Putting the number one contender to Cyborg’s Title is NOT the way to promote a challenger and make her even seem like a threat to Cyborg. If Cyborg fought the winner of Toughill vs Coenen, then it would honestly come off like Cyborg vs some random female fighter to most fans.

by chrisbboy82 on Oct 28, 2009 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions

Kaufman vs. Hashi also scrapped, that makes two best women fights this fall cancelled.

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by Venom77 on Oct 28, 2009 10:28 AM EDT reply actions

But for that fight, they haven’t given a reason yet, so I am wondering if they are trying to move Kaufman to the Nov 7th show? No one really knows right now.

by MMASuPreMaCy on Oct 28, 2009 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions