Tag: Herschel Walker

Herschel Walker vs. Scott Carson Fight Video

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Herschel Walker improved to 2-0 as an MMA fighter with a first-round technical knockout victory over Scott Carson on Saturday night at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg. The fight video is above.

Walker, the former NFL star who wa…

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Herschel Walker improved to 2-0 as an MMA fighter with a first-round technical knockout victory over Scott Carson on Saturday night at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg. The fight video is above.

Walker, the former NFL star who was a Heisman Trophy-winning running back at Georgia and also dabbled in Olympic bobsledding, made short work of Carson, who could do little more than cover up and try not to get too badly hurt.

Walker indicated after the fight that he hopes to fight for Strikeforce again. At age 48, he’s not ready to quit fighting.

At 48, Herschel Walker Says He’s ‘Still a Young Fighter, Still Getting Better’

Filed under: StrikeforceSAN JOSE, Calif. – Herschel Walker will never become an MMA champion. But as he showed at the HP Pavilion on Saturday night, he’s no pushover either.

The 48-year-old former NFL running back and Heisman Trophy winner only neede…

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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Herschel Walker will never become an MMA champion. But as he showed at the HP Pavilion on Saturday night, he’s no pushover either.

The 48-year-old former NFL running back and Heisman Trophy winner only needed a kick in the face to get his motor started against an unheralded, hand-picked opponent. Then the man who’s been everything from an Olympic bobsledder to a would-be track star rolled right over the unknown Scott Carson (4-2) at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg.

“I’m still a young fighter, still getting better,” Walker said in the post-fight press conference. “Scott is young too, so it ain’t like I did anything special. One thing I want to do is get back into AKA, get back into training, and just see where it goes from there.”

Herschel Walker’s Detractors Swing and Miss on Criticisms

Filed under: StrikeforceToo bad we’ll never know just how good Herschel Walker could have been. At 48 years old, even the seemingly ageless Walker admits that he doesn’t see much of a lifespan for himself in mixed martial arts. He focuses more on the t…

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Too bad we’ll never know just how good Herschel Walker could have been. At 48 years old, even the seemingly ageless Walker admits that he doesn’t see much of a lifespan for himself in mixed martial arts. He focuses more on the training than the fighting, leaving his Strikeforce career to his team at the American Kickboxing Academy.

That’s a shame, really, because Walker could have been good. Very good. Sure, it’s hard to tell just where he is right now. Even at 2-0, wins over Scott Carson and Greg Nagy aren’t measuring sticks we can easily read. Beginner vs. beginner fights are understandable, but for the fan, they’re not very helpful in evaluating talent. In Walker’s case though, you can see he has it. For a young fighter — figuratively speaking, of course — he has good instincts, power and poise. And even at his advanced age, his athleticism is still quite obvious.

Walker has critics, of course, but most of them are more focused on why he has a job in the first place, rather than what he is when he steps in the cage. And aren’t we supposed to care more about what happens in the cage?

Herschel Walker Won’t Commit to Third MMA Fight

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to Herschel Walker following his dominant first round win over Scott Carson at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg. Walker talked about how he has improved as an MMA fighter, why he won’t commit to a third fight and his Super Bowl pick.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to Herschel Walker following his dominant first round win over Scott Carson at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Cyborg. Walker talked about how he has improved as an MMA fighter, why he won’t commit to a third fight and his Super Bowl pick.

Strikeforce Diaz vs. Cyborg: Live Results and Commentary

("I thought you said you were Mr. Cyborg?") 
 
Here we are with Strikeforce’s first major event of the 2011, or as we like to call it, their first shot at fucking up the good things they did last year.
Although rumor has it Gus Joh…


("I thought you said you were Mr. Cyborg?") 

Here we are with Strikeforce’s first major event of the 2011, or as we like to call it, their first shot at fucking up the good things they did last year.

Although rumor has it Gus Johnson won’t be in the broadcast booth tonight, he promises that he’ll bring his MMA-retarded rhetoric back in time for the first round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix in February, despite the fact that HDNet has announced Michael Shiavello and Bas Rutten will be added to the announce team — at least for the prelims.

With no GuJo to screw up the broadcast and no feuds brewing between the Diaz’s and opponents they’ll likely never face, there’s a pretty good chance that this event could go off with out a hitch. The only thing that could knock this ship off course would be for Cyborg to upset Diaz and for Lawler to knock out Jacare.

And for the record, we WANT Strikeforce to succeed more than we want to see Justin Bieber fall down a flight of stairs, it’s just that they haven’t exactly given us a lot of indicators that they’re ready to go head-to-head with Zuffa’s Evil Empire (Just kidding, Dana. Ben doesn’t want to get fucked again.)

Let’s get this thing going. Spoilers after the jump. Refresh often.

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Herschel Walker: A Lot of Guys Don’t Want to Fight Me

Filed under: StrikeforceSAN JOSE – As Herschel Walker took his seat among a lineup of vastly more experienced fighters at Thursday’s Strikeforce press conference, ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. – a man whose job requires him to work in hyperbole the w…

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SAN JOSE – As Herschel Walker took his seat among a lineup of vastly more experienced fighters at Thursday’s Strikeforce press conference, ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. – a man whose job requires him to work in hyperbole the way some artists work in oils – called him “the greatest athlete in the world.”

It’s the kind of statement that might get tossed out easily and maybe even thoughtlessly in all the megaphone barking of fight promotion, but the 48-year-old Walker, who’s been everything from an NFL running back to an Olympic bobsledder, doesn’t take it lightly.

“I don’t know whether I feel up to that,” Walker told MMA Fighting. “I think I’m a pretty good athlete, but there are a lot of good athletes out there. Even though I’ve done a lot of things and done them at the highest level, that’s a bold statement to make. I think it’s great to hear it, but I don’t know if you can ever really say it.”