Strikeforce Live Blog: Daniel Cormier vs. Devin Cole Updates

Filed under: StrikeforceThis is the Strikeforce live blog for Daniel Cormier vs. Devin Cole, a heavyweight bout on tonight’s Strikeforce Challengers 13 on Showtime card from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn.

A two-time Olympic wre…

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This is the Strikeforce live blog for Daniel Cormier vs. Devin Cole, a heavyweight bout on tonight’s Strikeforce Challengers 13 on Showtime card from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn.

A two-time Olympic wrestler, Cormier (6-0) has been honing his MMA skills with Cain Velasquez and the rest of the members of the American Kickboxing Academy. Cole (18-8-1) is a former IFL competitor.

The live blog is below.

Strikeforce Challengers 13 Weigh-In Results

Filed under: Strikeforce, NewsAll 10 fighters competing on the televised portion of Friday’s Strikeforce Challengers 13 made weight on their first visit to the scale.

Welterweight contender hopefuls Tyron Woodley and Tarec Saffiedine each weighed in a…

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Tyrone Woodley vs. Tarec SaffiedineAll 10 fighters competing on the televised portion of Friday’s Strikeforce Challengers 13 made weight on their first visit to the scale.

Welterweight contender hopefuls Tyron Woodley and Tarec Saffiedine each weighed in at 170.2 for their main event matchup, which will headline the event at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium.

Woodley will be looking to improve to a perfect 8-0 while Saffiedine hopes to notch his fourth straight win.

Strikeforce Challengers Preview and Predictions

Filed under: StrikeforceThe first Strikeforce event of 2011 takes place on Friday in Tennessee, and it’s a Challengers card that has a good array of young talent and five fights on Showtime that should do a lot to identify some of the up-and-coming con…

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Tarec SaffiedineThe first Strikeforce event of 2011 takes place on Friday in Tennessee, and it’s a Challengers card that has a good array of young talent and five fights on Showtime that should do a lot to identify some of the up-and-coming contenders on the Strikeforce roster.

What: Strikeforce Nashville Challengers: Woodley vs Saffiedine

When: Friday, the Showtime broadcast begins at 11 PM ET

Where: Nashville Municipal Auditorium

Predictions on the five televised fights below.

If there’s Ever An In-Cage Death In MMA We’re Pretty Sure That Cecil Peoples Will Be the Referee Involved

(Video courtesy YouTube/LayzietheSavage) When Cecil Peoples isn’t screwing up the judging of important title fights or telling fans who disagree with his bias towards his fellow karate stylists to "go to hell," he’s causing cou…

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When Cecil Peoples isn’t screwing up the judging of important title fights or telling fans who disagree with his bias towards his fellow karate stylists to "go to hell," he’s causing countless near death experiences like the one above inside the cage.

Our pal Layzie the Savage was cageside at the Long Beach Fight Night event Sunday night to capture the latest in a long line of patented Peoples fuck ups.

I used to think that CePe must be wearing a pair of these when he judges to hide the fact that he’s sneaking a few winks and that he already pre-filled out the scorecards before the show, but now I’m thinking he must have Angry Birds installed on his iPhone because he’s proven himself an equally inattentive in-cage official as he is a cageside one.

Seriously, the dude makes Steve Mazzagatti look like Herb Dean.

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With Help From UFC Champ, Daniel Cormier Readies for Strikeforce Big Guns

Filed under: Strikeforce, FanHouse Exclusive, interview The news of Strikeforce’s upcoming heavyweight tournament was a bombshell development for a company still working on prying eyes from the UFC. And it’s also a welcome scenario for the Strikeforce …

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The news of Strikeforce’s upcoming heavyweight tournament was a bombshell development for a company still working on prying eyes from the UFC. And it’s also a welcome scenario for the Strikeforce athletes, who are well aware of the extra spotlight it is likely to bring, even to fighters who are not part of the field.

One such fighter who may receive added attention from it is Daniel Cormier, an undefeated fighter who is among a group of rising stars in Strikeforce’s heavyweight ranks.

On Friday night, Cormier (6-0) will face Devin Cole in a featured bout on Showtime’s Strikeforce Challenger series.

In 2010, Cormier fast-tracked his development, fighting five times. In 2011, he hopes to take his career to the next level, fighting some of Strikeforce’s stars. A win over Cole, his most experienced opponent at 18-8-1, may be the fight to get him there.

Daniel Cormier on Koscheck-GSP: ‘In Reality, Josh Is the Better Wrestler’

Filed under: UFC, FanHouse Exclusive MONTREAL — Like millions of others, Daniel Cormier has watched in awe at the excellence of UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre. Unlike the masses, however, Cormier has earned the right to either critique o…

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MONTREAL — Like millions of others, Daniel Cormier has watched in awe at the excellence of UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre. Unlike the masses, however, Cormier has earned the right to either critique or praise perhaps the most lauded part of GSP’s game, his wrestling.

While Cormier is known to some fans as a rising Strikeforce heavyweight, he’s also a two-time US Olympian in freestyle wrestling.

Count him among the people that are stunned by St. Pierre’s rapid wrestling progression despite no background in the discipline, but he parts ways with the group at the suggestion that GSP is a better wrestler than his UFC 124 opponent, Josh Koscheck.