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Recently we speculated that Strikeforce likely would roll out the ‘big guns’ (meaning notable fighters; not ‘well proportioned’card girls…although one can hope for both) for the promotion’s next CBS broadcast event. After all, what better way to build the promotion’s brand than by having its top fighters like Jake Shields, Dan Henderson, and Fedor Emelianenko, among others, fight live again on network television.

Well according to a report today from MMA Weekly, Shields has confirmed that he’ll fight Henderson in April, although he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) confirm whether or not the bout will in fact be broadcast on CBS.

“I have a date (and) venue, but they told me to hold that back,” said Shields. “Hopefully CBS. I think it’s CBS. There’s a slight possibility of Showtime because they’re still (working it out). I don’t know the rest of the card or any of that yet. But me and Dan’s on, and I’m hoping it’s on CBS.”

So, clearly a bout between the promotion’s middleweight champ in Shields (and one of the planet’s best 170lb. fighters) and the former Pride champion Henderson (who can also roll dudes at 205), is a great place to start. Will it be enough to bring in the big ratings? Obviously Strikeforce will add more to the card (they didn’t sign the 47 year-old Herschel Walker to sign footballs), but there are rumours floating around that they might not use Fedor in April, meaning Hendo vs. Shields would probably be the top draw. Guess it’s wait and see time.

Recently we speculated that Strikeforce likely would roll out the ‘big guns’ (meaning notable fighters; not ‘well proportioned’card girls…although one can hope for both) for the promotion’s next CBS broadcast event. After all, what better way to build the promotion’s brand than by having its top fighters like Jake Shields, Dan Henderson, and Fedor Emelianenko, among others, fight live again on network television.

Well according to a report today from MMA Weekly, Shields has confirmed that he’ll fight Henderson in April, although he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) confirm whether or not the bout will in fact be broadcast on CBS.

“I have a date (and) venue, but they told me to hold that back,” said Shields. “Hopefully CBS. I think it’s CBS. There’s a slight possibility of Showtime because they’re still (working it out). I don’t know the rest of the card or any of that yet. But me and Dan’s on, and I’m hoping it’s on CBS.”

So, clearly a bout between the promotion’s middleweight champ in Shields (and one of the planet’s best 170lb. fighters) and the former Pride champion Henderson (who can also roll dudes at 205), is a great place to start. Will it be enough to bring in the big ratings? Obviously Strikeforce will add more to the card (they didn’t sign the 47 year-old Herschel Walker to sign footballs), but there are rumours floating around that they might not use Fedor in April, meaning Hendo vs. Shields would probably be the top draw. Guess it’s wait and see time.

Topps today released its 2010 set of Ultimate Fighting Championship
fighter cards, and in addition to some special autographed and “relic”
cards, one person will win a VIP trip to Las Vegas and a UFC cageside
seat with UFC president Dana White.

The 2010 “UFC Main Event” series follows last year’s debut set and hit store shelves today.

Ten special cards autographed by White and UFC fighters Chuck Liddell
and Tito Ortiz were randomly inserted into packs, and the first person
to redeem one wins the VIP trip to Sin City.

After losing his initial opponent due to an injury, John Howard has gone from a main-card bout with fellow contender Anthony Johnson to an un-aired preliminary-card fight with UFC newcomer Daniel Roberts at UFC on Versus 1.

MMAjunkie.com confirmed the bout last week, and UFC officials have since made the welterweight matchup official.

With the fight moved to the March 21 event’s preliminary card, only three fights are set for the Versus-televised main card. A source close to the event told MMAjunkie.com a newly booked fight
likely will take the vacant spot on the televised portion of the show.

Twitter can be a wonderful or damn annoying thing. In fact, it’s just like the internet; at times providing unfettered access to vitally important knowledge, or an opportunity for morons to drone on incessantly about sh-t they know nothing about. Like anyone gives an eff (hey wait a sec…).  This time around Twitter has blessed us all, as both Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Rashad Evans have confirmed the date of their upcoming bout, before the official word came down.

For those that don’t know. I fight Quinton May 29th in Vegas at the MGM. I’m gonna do most of my camp in Denver at Grudge still team Jackson.

 I’m knocking Rashad out May 29th!! It’s on!!

Sweet, although unfortunately much of the hype that had built up during Rampage’s and Rashad’s numerous hee hee, ha ha, ‘here they go again’ moments during the last season of TUF has faded; we’re still damn excited to see them throw down. Kevin Iole noted in his recent mailbag (thanks to Cage Potato for the heads up) that he thought Rampage looked “plump” in Australia. Yeah, we noticed that too while watching this weekend’s UFC, although we weren’t sure if it was a case of ‘that’s just from the lighting’ gut. Iole also mentioned he saw Rampage smoking a cigarette…Hollywood…

Anyways, we thought Rampage would be back, now let’s all sit back and enjoy the show.

As expected former welterweight Jacob Volkmann makes his lightweight debut and meets fellow 155-pounder Ronys Torres next month at UFC Fight Night 21.

MMAjunkie.com passed along news of the bout on Monday following a Twitter message from Volkmann, and UFC officials today made the bout official.

UFC Fight Night 21 takes place March 31 at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C. Although the night’s main card airs on Spike TV, Volkmann vs. Torres is set for the un-aired preliminary card.