Strikeforce Challengers 10: Women’s Tournament Poster
by Nick Thomas on Aug 10, 2010 10:12 PM EDT
in MMA News
Email
Print
This Friday, live on SHOWTIME at 11:00 PM EST, the four ladies pictured above will compete for a shot at the Strikeforce 135 lb. title, currently held by Sarah Kaufman. Kaufman will battle Marloes Coenen first, and then the tournament winner will face the winner of Kaufman vs. Coenen.Strikeforce shortens women's tournament fights according to mmarising.com:
"This Friday's Strikeforce 135-pound women's tournament has undergone last-minute format changes. The opening round bouts have now been shortened and will be contested over just two rounds of three minutes."HT: strikeforce.com, prommanow.com
"In addition, it is expected that judges will be tasked with determining an outright winner and that draws will not be permitted."
Strikeforce Challengers X coverage
74 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
Unprofessional
Format changes at such short notice seems like it could potentially force the fighters to make significant changes to their strategies. I can see this kind of stuff happening in amateur fights and the fighters just being expected to get it done anyway, but it doesn’t seem right to have the same expectations of professionals.
Especially if the winner is to be given a title shot.
Tiger Belt in Joe Son Do
(Sigh.)
Well, at least they got a decent poster out of it, right?
Right?
Bueller?
Brock Lesnar on Nutrition, circa 2009: "Vegetables? What the f*** are vegetables?"
by The MMA Noob on Aug 10, 2010 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm kinda in love with Ms.Tate right now.
"I ain't got time to breath."
Watch Tosh.O
Pain don't hurt...
Me too
"I'm gonna go after number one, whoever it is. If it's Anderson, or I gotta go up after the guys at 205, or go on a diet and go after Jose Aldo-- it doesn't matter." -Chael Sonnen
by Charles Awad on Aug 10, 2010 9:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
TEH HOTNESS!!!!!11
"If I woke up looking like that, I would run towards the nearest living thing and kill it." -Master Shake
She has a nose?
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
Contributor for WatchKalibRun.com
Still Subo at Fightlinker.com
by Derek Suboticki on Aug 10, 2010 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Lies. If that was in front of you and you were drunk, you would.
I think she’s pretty attractive anyway, at least hook-up worthy. Plus it’d make a cool story.
When I am drunk I go hunting for Asians
Akano might get it first… I personally think a face is really important though.
White girl with a ghetto booty
it’s like my Kryptonite…if Kryptonite gave Superman erections.
2010 Summer of Side Boob.
by Fake Emcee on Aug 10, 2010 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
ahahha
that was classic
"I ain't got time to breath."
Watch Tosh.O
Pain don't hurt...
by RolloTomasi on Aug 10, 2010 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
We call that
a Whooty…
and they are glorious
"I drop knowledge so heavy it leaves the world unbalanced, Exterminate the spiritual force of all that challenge, I'm the lyrical apocalypse that crumbles the granite, Replacing you as the dominant species on the planet" - Immortal Technique
Wow Meisha can be totally hott sometimes
"If I woke up looking like that, I would run towards the nearest living thing and kill it." -Master Shake
Nick you didn’t put who the boxer dropper of the week is??
by DirtyML on Aug 10, 2010 9:42 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Ridiculous rules changes. How can they be serious about promoting 135 if they keep doing this stupid shit?
http://www.instrength.com
Heh, answered your own question.
It’s Strikeforce.
Moreover, they put their last Women’s Welterweight Championship fight as a co-main event on a Challengers card.
When the UFC decides to adopt/start a women’s MMA league, the migration is going to be nasty.
Brock Lesnar on Nutrition, circa 2009: "Vegetables? What the f*** are vegetables?"
by The MMA Noob on Aug 10, 2010 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Two three minute rounds?
Wow.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
Contributor for WatchKalibRun.com
Still Subo at Fightlinker.com
by Derek Suboticki on Aug 10, 2010 9:51 PM EDT reply actions
At least Dr Benjamin will be pleased. Can’t be endangering the women folk!
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
Contributor for WatchKalibRun.com
Still Subo at Fightlinker.com
by Derek Suboticki on Aug 10, 2010 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions
That does suck
Come on, let them fight! 2 × 3 minutes, that’s just silly. If those are the conditions for doing tournaments, I say no thanks.. that’s some amateur exhibition bullshit right there
by Horselover Fat on Aug 11, 2010 7:31 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm starting to question things.
I mean seriously, Miesha Tate can be hardcore buttugly at times. Other times (mostly when looking at that sweet, sweet ass) I’d rape my ow momma to get a bite of that booty. She makes me so indecisive about boning that it makes me question myself as a person!
I’d rape my ow momma to get a bite of that booty.
Word?
The weird thing is… she looks worse when she’s smiling. There’s a pic somewhere of her sort of sneering, but I’m not going to look for it because I won’t get anything done for the next hour.
...like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.
- C. McCarthy
And
Being the last person to post can make you think you’re replying when you’re actually creating a new top level post.
Tiger Belt in Joe Son Do
by RearNakedSpank on Aug 10, 2010 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh and by the way, Carina Damm is going to win this and get smashed by Kaufman eventually.
http://www.instrength.com
Isn’t the change because the Unified rules don’t allow more than 15 total minutes in one night for a non-title fight? So there getting around that rule by doing 3 minute rounds (6 minutes per fight). Someone please correct me if im imagining things
I don't think that's true
Think it has to do with the promoter being concerned they could do two fights with 3 five minute rounds. One night tournaments are a bad idea for men or women, IMHO.
█♣█
A wise man told me don't argue with fools
Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who -- Jay-Z
by thetakeover on Aug 10, 2010 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I like how Miesha’s favorite fighter is Gil Melendez…and her boyfriend is Bryan Caraway…who’s also a fighter. Guess he’s not good enough. Awesome.
http://www.instrength.com
Are they still toying with the idea of not having the fighters in the tournament know who they are fighting until a few days before the event? I saw that on Fight Opinion and that was baffling at best.
My avatar has Bas Rutten and Terry Funk in it...therefore it's the manliest avatar on SB Nation.
People are making too big a deal about this. If they know who they are fighting in the first round, they still have to make a gameplan and train to beat the other 2 because they don’t know who they are fighting in the final. You have to train for all 3 either way, if they think having the draw at the weigh in will help them, why not try it.
“This Friday’s Strikeforce 135-pound women’s tournament has undergone last-minute format changes. The opening round bouts have now been shortened and will be contested over just two rounds of three minutes.”
This is bullshit. Bellator’s tournament is three 5 minute rounds, right?
So, they are releasing are finally releasing the poster for this event three days before said event?
My avatar has Bas Rutten and Terry Funk in it...therefore it's the manliest avatar on SB Nation.
Hey man....
Paper doesnt just grow on trees
by Brandon Starr on Aug 10, 2010 11:38 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Sorry, that last one is Zoila Frausto. Mistake
by Horselover Fat on Aug 11, 2010 7:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Goddam
Miesha Tate is pretty bangable…fuck I’d even call her the next day – my only other viewing of her she looked a bit mannish, guess I judged early.
So they are going to fight for 6 minutes to determine a number one contender for a championship fight which would then be 25 minutes long? That just doesn’t make sense. Is any commission willing to customize they’re rules like this or is something special about Arizona?
I really hope this isn’t how they run the middleweight tournament.
2*3mins in a time when wome routinely go 3*5mins is borderline ridiculous, but there is the issue of wanting to get the tournament finished. I don’t think any of us want to see two completely gassed fighters in the final – or even one completely gassed fighter getting murdered by an opponent who only had to go one round in the semi. I have no doubt any of them is able to go 5*5mins when the time comes so cardio is not the issue.
WAR KUJALA!
You don't like wrestling in MMA? Go watch K-1.
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Aug 11, 2010 7:12 AM EDT reply actions
2*3mins in a time when wome routinely go 3*5mins is borderline ridiculous, but there is the issue of wanting to get the tournament finished.
…because it is wasting air time on the broadcast.
Unfortunately I think that is their thought process.
it’s hard to tell.
Originally the fights were supposed to be 3 3 minute rounds with an overtime period in case of a draw. The most someone can fight in that scenario is 24 minutes, which is under the 25 minute cutoff that is somehow the golden rule for the sport.
I’m not sure why they changed it now, but they did, and you can’t really change the length of rounds the week of the fight.
I'm betting on either Akano or Kujala...
…in a fight, I’ll bet against good looks everytime.
This also works with male fighters. If you know nothing about either competitor, bet on the one with the most cauliflower ear!
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin
Ahhhh
This is how seriously we take women’s mma….2/3rd’s of the comments are about how doable Tate is and pictures of her…sigh
The level of Y-chromosome Horn-Dog-ness in these comments is off the scale.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
The best part is all the dudes who are like, "Yeah, maybe I'd bang Tate, she looks alright sometimes."
Like any one of yous keyboard-warrior-mma-computer-nerds has the option of going out and scooping up someone hotter right now. Hah!
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
Related FanPosts on Bloody Elbow
Related FanShots on Bloody Elbow
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Recommended FanPosts
Recent FanPosts
MMA Rankings
