Fedor’s very involvement?

I guess

"There is no action pending against Mr. Silva nor is any contemplated," wrote CSAC Executive Officer Dave Thornton in an e-mail to Sherdog.com. "So he is clear to fight in California or any other state as long as he fulfills all other requirements."

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/silva-werdum-added-to-strikeforce-20235

But if history has taught us anything, we have no idea what “all other requirements” means, and they should probably get cracking on that. The fight is in IL, so who knows what they do there, so they don’t have to worry about crazy CSAC stuff.

I thought most of the MFC guys moved around quite a bit? Nick Thompson has fought in Strikeforce and Dream while under contract there. Basically everyone but McKie and Ryan Ford seemed to move around. Who knew?

A fight where you don’t want one of the guys to have a chance of being your champ.

i submit, by definition, non-title fights are not good fights. but thats just me.

He is the 3rd highest ranked, non Zuffa LHW. And Babalu is #2, so using the BE Rankings, this is the best fight they can make, but I agree with pmac. If it’s non-title it’s stupid.

There aren’t a lot of options at 205 for Strikeforce, so this is the best one. But if this doesn’t qualify for a title fight, I have no idea what would.

But both Fedor and Mousasi’s bouts should be pretty one sided.

Silva v Werdum, who knows.

Frankly, the card seems fine.

For me personally, however, the irritation comes from acting like this is some monumental card simply because it has Fedor and is on CBS.

Fedor is -575. Let me give a comparison, The Steelers are -520 @ Detroit this weekend, the Vikings are -550 @ St Louis. So the Lions and Rams have a better chance of puling the upset than Buck. Sounds somewhat “squashish” to me.

I don’t care about rankings, I care about match-ups, because styles maket fights. Mousasi has 9 of his 26 wins via submission. Soko has a “kimboesque” game from the bottom. Again Iike the Lions chances better than Soko’s.

Mayhem has 13 of his 22 wins via submission, how you think that will work again Shields? Okay, I will admit I would take Mayhem’s chances here over that of the Lions or Lams, err Rams. But still I would expect Shields to be a solid 2-to-1 favorite making it half-competitive.

Silva vs. Werdum, does anyone really care is my question? Its always a good idea to kick-off a big fight card with heavyweights, the most likely to be lacking cardio and thus to produce 15 minutes of two fat guys leaning on each other. Could be match of the year, but if I were a promoter I would look to put two lighter guys in there who can bang. Where is Scott Smith when you need him?

I have no love nor hate for “everything non-Zuffa” but what I do have is an apprecitation for good vs. bad business. If my compeitior engages in good buisness tactics, I have littel choice by to do the same if I want to survive, its good business.

And yeah, Showtime/CBS has stated their intentions of going PPV with their Strikeforce partnership. If you can’t see this as a build towards a higher revenue event then I can’t help you. Live events cost $1-2 million to put on, live gates are less than $1 million, Showtime doesn’t get ad revenues, ad revenues on CBS are a buyers market so it isn’t like sponsors are lining up to pay top dollar for programming (MMA) that has failed to deliver ratings in the absence or Kimbo, Gina, or the UFC brand. Showtime needs PPV revenues to make a profit. Or they need massive ratings to increase ad revenue.

Showtime is just adopting bad business tactics.