Scott Coker Says Strikeforce to Announce Two Heavyweight Signings
by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 8, 2009 4:54 PM EST
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At the post fight press conference Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker stated that in seven to ten days the promotion would be announcing two big heavyweight signings. He refused to give any hints as to who the heavyweights in question were but did seem to suggest that they would factor into the upper end of the division.
Looking at the available heavyweights that could fit the bill I would assume one of the two names is Andrei Arlovski. Arlovski was cageside for the event and there have been rumors in the past that he could be making his way into the promotion. Despite the knockout losses to Fedor and Brett Rogers, Andrei does remain a legitimate test for almost any heavyweight on the planet.
As for the second heavyweight? M-1 didn't seem to have much interest in the announcement so I doubt it's Aleks Emelianenko plus Coker said during the lead up to the event that he won't sign him until he clears up his medical issues. Josh Barnett is too much of a risk at this point for Strikeforce to bring on board. Jeff Monson isn't a big enough name.
Bobby Lashley perhaps?
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I literally haven’t heard a single thing about Sergei since he got MONSON’D.
by Tonley on Nov 8, 2009 5:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
monson’d up the creek without a paddle
by cagefightonacid on Nov 8, 2009 5:08 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
With that pic I guess one of them is Coker himself....
by Tonley on Nov 8, 2009 5:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yep
That girl in the shot is actually standing directly to his left.
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:04 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
No chance
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Bobby Lashley
Is my bet.
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by funnytiger on Nov 8, 2009 5:02 PM EST via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Yep
Lashley and Arlovski. Those would be two very good signings, in my mind.
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Didn’t Renallo say “Strikeforce fighter Andrei Arlovski” when they put him on camera last night? Also hoping for Lashley and AA. Lets string some wins and get some rematches with Brett and Fedor. =)
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by xFenixKnightx on Nov 8, 2009 5:18 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My real hope is that they finally got the other AO to agree to fuckin fight on a Strikeforce card.
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Fucking A
I can’t support that guy anymore until he fights state-side.
BOOSH
by Farthammer on Nov 8, 2009 6:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Alex Ovechkin?
I mean, the guy’s a hell of a hockey player, but really….
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by duck on Nov 8, 2009 6:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
good dirty boxing though right?
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by slapjaw ackrite on Nov 9, 2009 2:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Has to be Arlovski and Lashley
Can’t remember what wrestling site had a post up about Lashley and TNA having a hard time trying to figure out his schedule since he was gonna become a full time mma fighter. Arlovski has to be more the obvious.
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by poundnground on Nov 8, 2009 5:06 PM EST via mobile reply actions 0 recs
I’m a big Arlovski fan. I guess it makes sense for him and Big Foot to go one on one. He’s already fought Fabricio and Brett though.
by HeroCasey on Nov 8, 2009 5:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Rec'd for making me LOL all over this place
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
rec'd because few people understand the Awesomeness
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by Robert Downey Sr. on Nov 8, 2009 5:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
>_< oh man
is anyone else extremely psyched about the possibility of wedrum facing someone else before they give him fedor?
his fight with silva lst night was tremendous
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by blubber_guard on Nov 8, 2009 5:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I thought all the fights were really good. Too bad they didnt squeeze the Coenen scrap in.
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by xFenixKnightx on Nov 8, 2009 5:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
He needs another fight. I don’t think he can handle Fedor’s pressure at all. Overeem/Fedor has to be next, in my mind.
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yea
i was.. lown away last night though, i didn’t expect the whoel show to be that, good
but man even the camera angles, and sound were good
fedor’s last punch was looooud, you could see everything you needed too, + no goldberg
i could get used to this
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by blubber_guard on Nov 8, 2009 5:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hasn't anybody told Coker
That if you aren’t a fighter you can’t pose with your fists up like that?
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by dedstrk316 on Nov 8, 2009 5:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
haha
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by dedstrk316 on Nov 8, 2009 6:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Sapp.
Keep firing Assholes!
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by Ubernoober on Nov 8, 2009 5:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
That’s not something you brag about.
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by themachiavellian on Nov 8, 2009 5:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He looks like he could eat BROCKLESNARRR!!!! Also, Fedor wants a freak fight for New Year’s eve. It’s been 2 years since the last one and no freak fights on New Years makes for a sad Fedor :(
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by Ubernoober on Nov 8, 2009 5:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Fedro haz broke noz :(
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
fedor camp says nose not broken
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by GregS123 on Nov 8, 2009 6:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And he's not pudgy, he's big-boned.
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by duck on Nov 8, 2009 6:58 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Sapp just got beat by Minowan. No promoter would be ballsy enough to match him up with Fedor ever
by HighNoon on Nov 8, 2009 5:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That giant fucker can’t make 265 anyways..
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by Blackout612 on Nov 8, 2009 5:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
WAMMA Superheavyweight Championship. Fedor will be the first fighter to ever win WAMMA titles in two different weight classes.
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by Ubernoober on Nov 8, 2009 5:38 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
looks like a booger
no its snot
Welcome to the Machida Error.
by slapjaw ackrite on Nov 9, 2009 2:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Strikeforce has to be predictably unpredictable. No one on this side of the Pacific other than us night owls has seen that fight.
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by Ubernoober on Nov 8, 2009 5:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah but I’m sure at least a few people saw Sapp get embarrassingly KOed by Norte in his last Strikeforce fight
by HighNoon on Nov 8, 2009 5:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Strikeforce can burn that footage. What better way to get him across to the public than to have him fight BOBSAPPPPP!!!! the only man in MMA with bigger biceps than BROCKLESNARRRRR!!!
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by Ubernoober on Nov 8, 2009 5:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
you want a build up worthy of paper view sales in alabama
you give frye a mic on cbs
"he's the best punchy face man in the buisness"
by blubber_guard on Nov 8, 2009 5:55 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
LMFAO!
I spit some of my drink out on that one. lol
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by xFenixKnightx on Nov 8, 2009 6:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It took me like 5 mins to understand what you meant by “paper view”, until I said out loud.
by David_ on Nov 8, 2009 6:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
alabama has peper view boi
i say i say boi
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by blubber_guard on Nov 8, 2009 6:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
paper* gdmt ._.
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by blubber_guard on Nov 8, 2009 6:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Since I was there..
I did see two heavyweight fighters in attendance..Arlovski and Lashley..so I’m guessing it’s a safe bet that you will see SF announcing those two names as the recently signed fighters.
by filipinomix2oo0 on Nov 8, 2009 6:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Who else is out there that it could be? The only other heavyweight out there would be Tim Sylvia.
by chrisbboy82 on Nov 8, 2009 6:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Delete if it's a problem
because I seriously don’t know…
But are we SURE Roy Nelson’s not available?
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by duck on Nov 8, 2009 7:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was there as well...
didn’t see Lashley though.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 8, 2009 9:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Thought I saw a very muscular looking bald-headed African Amercian man taking pictures with a few fans, and assumed it was Lashley.
by filipinomix2oo0 on Nov 9, 2009 1:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that was brent
"he's the best punchy face man in the buisness"
by blubber_guard on Nov 9, 2009 2:27 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
AA and Black Lesnar make since
unfortuanatly i like AA but ugg i dont like booby lashley as a pro wrestler or as a fighter
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by MaZZacare on Nov 8, 2009 6:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
....Dave Herman?
Officially now the head of the Lobstein bandwagon.
by P Brady on Nov 8, 2009 6:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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by pj48 on Nov 8, 2009 6:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Considering Andrei has fought in the US for nearly his entire career now...
.. and considering he just fought in SF in June, and considering he is not about to go back to the UFC, and considering he was there last night, it would make sense that he is one of them. BUT, I don’t see why he should be treated as some new signing… I was assuming he was still with SF the whole time and was just getting his head right/getting back to training at Jackson’s.
I would also assume that Lashley would be the other one, maybe Yvel though?
by TDITZ on Nov 8, 2009 7:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
AA was still rockin Affliction's joint...
…when he fought Brett Rogers under the Affliction/Strikeforce fighter exchange agreement sort of like what SF has with Dream now. He was never officially part of the SF roster.
by Unak78 on Nov 9, 2009 1:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Overeem, Fedor, Rogers, Werdum, Silva, Arlovski, Lashley, Johnson, Del Rosario, Roger Gracie, Daniel Cormier.
Pretty good HW roster that only had Paul Buentello and Overeem 2 years ago.
=)
by MMASuPreMaCy on Nov 8, 2009 7:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Where have you been? I thought you’d be on here reveling in the aftermath of a great show.
by nottheface on Nov 8, 2009 8:18 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
I know. Not to happy, but couldn’t get on the internet this entire weekend. Limited right now.
=)
by MMASuPreMaCy on Nov 9, 2009 12:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
so you’re counting your eggs before it hatches? or is it really AA and Bobby?
by Anton Tabuena on Nov 8, 2009 10:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Arlovski has been tied to Showtime for a while. Lashley seems like a go as well. I wonder if they would sign Barnett in the long run, if he can pass a test. =)
by MMASuPreMaCy on Nov 9, 2009 12:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Coker says he’s interested once Barnett gets right with the CSAC.
by Unak78 on Nov 9, 2009 1:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What about the guy that beat Fedor in Sambo?
by HeroCasey on Nov 8, 2009 10:04 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Arlovski and Lashley, probably. Andrei might turn out to be a good signing, actually. Lashley – the way the guy’s been hopping back and forth between MMA and pro wrestling makes me think that SF will not earn any money off him.
by lhasafi on Nov 9, 2009 5:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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