Former Strikeforce champion Jake Shields(former because he’s been dropped by the promotion) recently had some serious issues getting into the Strikeforce: Fedor Vs. Werdum card, but it makes more sense as he had no idea that Strikeforce had already removed him from their roster. Shields explained his situation with Strikeforce to BJPenn.com, and was very candid when answering:
“It came as kind of a surprise. I hadn’t really been talking to Strikeforce and pretty much everyone knows that I want to go to the UFC. We got our negotiations going with the UFC and they (Strikeforce) dropped me without any warning and it came out of nowhere. It is what it is and I’m moving ahead with the UFC contract and hopefully that will be worked out soon.”
From the entire interview it seems that Shields is quite bitter with the way things have gone down, but it’s safe to say that he’ll get the last laugh as he’ll earn a bigger name and work for the biggest promotion in the world when he signs with UFC. It should be an interesting run into the UFC from a high level fighter.