The last time former PRIDE champion Dan Henderson (25-8) stepped into the cage was in a loss to Jake Shields for the vacant Strikeforce middleweight title at the CBS televised Strikeforce: Nashville event. Now Henderson will step back into the cage on Dec. 4th but CBS won’t be handling the broadcast duties for the event.
CBS has apparently grown a little camera shy after the Live in cage brawl which took place during the Nashville show. Involved in the brawl were Jason “Mayhem” Miller and several members of Team Ceasar Gracie, including Shields
“I was wanting to get back in there pretty quickly, but I think part of the problem was CBS kind of a little bit faltering on their commitment to mixed martial arts, especially after the little escapade in the cage after my last fight on CBS. You know, I don’t quite understand that and they’re definitely still wanting to be involved in mixed martial arts and with Strikeforce, but I think they’re just gonna take their time on it a little bit more…It is disappointing [to not fight on CBS again], and the fact that that could have been easily avoided with the guys not coming into the cage after my last fight. It just gave them an out. But I also think that if CBS had a big problem with it, they didn’t need to put it on their Web site, didn’t need to replay it a bunch of times.”
HT: MMAFighting.com