Filed under: DREAM, NewsGegard Mousasi says winning the Dream light heavyweight belt this Saturday would push him closer towards a shot at reclaiming the Strikeforce 205-pound belt.
“I feel like if I win this belt,” Mousasi told reporters Thursday. “I…
Gegard Mousasi says winning the Dream light heavyweight belt this Saturday would push him closer towards a shot at reclaiming the Strikeforce 205-pound belt.
“I feel like if I win this belt,” Mousasi told reporters Thursday. “It will give me the right to also fight for the Strikeforce belt and winning both belts; I think in Japan and U.S. is an accomplishment that I’ve always wanted.”
Besides the rare feat of holding titles in separate major promotions, the 25-year-old Dutch-Armenian would fully establish himself as an important figure in the historical sense down the line for the Dream organization.
Already staking a claim to being the first DREAM middleweight titleholder, he’d be the first-ever DREAM light heavyweight champion as well if he’s successful at Dream.16 against Tatsuya Mizuno.
Filed under: StrikeforceHOUSTON – If today’s Strikeforce: Houston pre-fight press conference had a theme, that theme was ‘respect.’ It made for a calm, congenial, and somewhat boring atmosphere, but perhaps that’s just what happens when all eight fight…
HOUSTON – If today’s Strikeforce: Houston pre-fight press conference had a theme, that theme was ‘respect.’ It made for a calm, congenial, and somewhat boring atmosphere, but perhaps that’s just what happens when all eight fighters on the televised portion of the card like one another too much.
Even defending Strikeforce light heavyweight champion “King” Mo Lawal, who usually likes some trash talk to go along with his pre-fight press obligations, explained that he just couldn’t work up the same animosity toward new challenger Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante that he had for Gegard Mousasi in his last fight.
“I respect Feijao,” said Lawal. “We’ve trained with some of the same people. He’s never questioned my character like Mousasi did. Mousasi was quick to go on record saying that I’m full of myself and I’m this and I’m that. Me and Feijao, we don’t need to do that. We’ll do that Saturday. We’ll fight Saturday and have fun.”
Filed under: DREAM, JapanIt’s a little more than eight months since MMA veteran Gary Goodridge fought Gegard Mousasi at FEG’s Dynamite!! 2009 New Year’s Eve show in Japan. Eight months, and still he hasn’t seen a single penny of the money he’s owed for…
It’s a little more than eight months since MMA veteran Gary Goodridge fought Gegard Mousasi at FEG’s Dynamite!! 2009 New Year’s Eve show in Japan. Eight months, and still he hasn’t seen a single penny of the money he’s owed for that bout, Goodridge told MMA Fighting earlier Wednesday.
“I’m pissed off. I’m fed up. I want my money,” said the 44-year-old Goodridge. “Of course, you’re like any other fighter at first, you stay quiet. You think, I stake my reputation and my whole career with these people. Of course they’re gonna pay. Of course they’re gonna pay, since my whole livelihood came from them in the last 13 years. Now it’s eight months and it’s quite obvious I’m not getting paid. So I’m going to open my mouth now.”
Filed under: DREAMThere may not have been a UFC or Strikeforce event this weekend, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t still plenty of people punching, kicking, and choking each other all around the world.
There may not have been a UFC or Strikeforce event this weekend, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t still plenty of people punching, kicking, and choking each other all around the world.
Some of them might have required you to set the DVR or wake up at odd hours, and others might not be available on video at all just yet, but the point is some stuff happened. In order to give that stuff its due respect, we now take a look back at the weekend’s action to examine who the big winners and losers are this Monday afternoon.
Filed under: DREAM, JapanThis is the Dream.15 live blog for Gegard Mousasi vs. Jake O’Brien, a catchweight bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Originally scheduled for light heavyweight, O’Brien failed to make…
This is the Dream.15 live blog for Gegard Mousasi vs. Jake O’Brien, a catchweight bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Originally scheduled for light heavyweight, O’Brien failed to make weight and enters this fight with an automatic yellow card and a 10 percent purse deduction. Mousasi is coming off a Strikeforce title loss to King Mo last April.