Heading into tomorrow’s Strikeforce card the pre-fight spotlight has largely been targeted on the Fedor Emelianenko and Fabricio Werdum match-up. Guess when you’re one the sport’s best and more intriguing fighters like Fedor is, people tend to talk about you a lot (not that “The Last Emperor” gives a damn of course). Saturday’s event has several other interesting bouts scheduled (including “Cyborg” Santos vs. Jan Finney), but the fight that definitely has a chance of grabbing the Jeff Spicoli “awesome; totally awesome” award is Cung Le vs. Scott Smith II.
Through the first two rounds of their first bout last December, Le was on cruise control, battering Smith with his trademark, makes you cringe, kicks. Of course, Smith came back to pull out the walk off KO homer in the third round, making the fight an instant classic. Well, speaking to MMA Weekly Radio this week, here is some of what Le had to say about trying to avenge his one and only loss.
“I’m very grateful to Scott Coker and Strikeforce for making this fight happen. I think it was a very exciting fight, especially what happened at the end, and I think its going to be another great fight.”
“Not only does he have ‘hands of steel,’ he definitely has a ‘head of steel.’
Thought we throw Le’s nice little zinger in there. Last time out Le concedes had been spending a lot of time on the movie set rather than the gym and was a little rusty; it will be interesting to see how he looks tomorrow night. To bet on the fights head here.