On Sept. 13th, Strikeforce announced the signing of heavyweight Josh Barnett (26-5) to the promotion.
Barnett has won his last six fights, earning a TKO (punches) victory over Geronimo dos Santos this summer at Impact FC 1 – The Uprising: Brisbane in his last fight.
“The Babyfaced Assassin” recently spoke to MMAjunkie.com about his return to the States.
“Everybody keeps telling me congratulations, and I just go, ‘For what?’ It’s just a promise. Until I start beating people, then you can tell me thanks.”
“They’ve got great fights for me. They have good accessibility on CBS and Showtime. I’d love to go out there and suplex somebody on their head on CBS. It would be a great opportunity. It works well with my overall vision of what I’m trying to do.
“So I’m happy with it in terms of what the future holds…”
“When I need to fight in California, I’ll gladly come in front of them and fill out the paperwork. If they want me to present any case in front of them, I’ll do whatever is necessary. I’ll make it happen. Until then, I’m just going to live my life like everybody else does.”
“I don’t feel a need to cater to people for any reason whatsoever. I treat those that are my fans respectfully and try to to what I can for them as an athlete. But I don’t things for other people. I do them for myself. To do them for any other reason is insincere and a counterproductive way of going about things.
“I don’t owe anyone anything, and they don’t owe anything to me. Those that are my fans, I’ll do what I can for them. But at the end of the day, my job is to go out there and [expletive] people up. That’s my goal. There are going to be people who dig that. There are going to be people that hate it, and that just makes me even happier.”