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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monson’d up the creek without a paddle
by cagefightonacid on Nov 8, 2009 5:08 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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
Bobby Lashley
Is my bet.
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by funnytiger on Nov 8, 2009 5:02 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Yep
Lashley and Arlovski. Those would be two very good signings, in my mind.
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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
My real hope is that they finally got the other AO to agree to fuckin fight on a Strikeforce card.
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Alex Ovechkin?
I mean, the guy’s a hell of a hockey player, but really….
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good dirty boxing though right?
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by slapjaw ackrite on Nov 9, 2009 2:54 AM EST up reply actions
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
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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
"he's the best punchy face man in the buisness"
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
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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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
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 Scott C. Broussard on Nov 8, 2009 5:30 PM EST up reply actions
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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Fedro haz broke noz :(
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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
That giant fucker can’t make 265 anyways..
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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
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by slapjaw ackrite on Nov 9, 2009 2:57 AM EST up reply actions
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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Yeah but I’m sure at least a few people saw Sapp get embarrassingly KOed by Norte in his last Strikeforce fight
you want a build up worthy of paper view sales in alabama
you give frye a mic on cbs
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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
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
paper* gdmt ._.
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by blubber_guard on Nov 8, 2009 6:10 PM EST up reply actions
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.
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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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
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
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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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?
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.
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.
=)
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by John Nash on Nov 8, 2009 8:18 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I know. Not to happy, but couldn’t get on the internet this entire weekend. Limited right now.
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by MMASuPreMaCy on Nov 9, 2009 12:02 AM EST up reply actions
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
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
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 Monday Morning Martial Artist on Nov 9, 2009 5:43 AM EST reply actions
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