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Is Jorge Gurgel Finally Ready to Stick to His Game Plan?

Filed under: StrikeforceHOUSTON – Jorge Gurgel knows what people say about him, and he doesn’t completely disagree. It’s true, he’s one of the best jiu-jitsu fighters to use almost no jiu-jitsu in his fights. And yes, he is prone to completely disregar…

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HOUSTON – Jorge Gurgel knows what people say about him, and he doesn’t completely disagree. It’s true, he’s one of the best jiu-jitsu fighters to use almost no jiu-jitsu in his fights. And yes, he is prone to completely disregarding his own game plan as soon as the fight starts.

As he put it at Thursday afternoon’s Strikeforce: Houston press conference, “I think fighting is a way of expressing myself. When the cage door shuts, that’s why I’m the worst for throwing my game plan out the window and just, you know, I see red.”

Has it hurt his career? “Absolutely,” Gurgel said. Does that bother him? “Not at all.”

As Gurgel explained to MMA Fighting after Thursday’s presser, “I was very serious when I said that. I do see red. …If I would have tried to get more guys on the ground, maybe I would have won more. It has cost me wins. It has cost me contracts. It has cost me money. But at the same time, how many people do you know who live their dreams every day? I’m still living mine.”

Noons Says Media Took UFC Comments Out of Context, Promises His Hair is About to Get ‘Pretty Crazy, Dude’

(For some reason, Strikeforce opted to hold this week’s prefight media events at The Black Lodge. VidProps: YouTube/Helwani)
I’m going to tread lightly here, because I don’t want KJ Noons’ dad to physically attack me, but some…


(For some reason, Strikeforce opted to hold this week’s prefight media events at The Black Lodge. VidProps: YouTube/Helwani)

I’m going to tread lightly here, because I don’t want KJ Noons’ dad to physically attack me, but sometimes it just seems like it would be better, maybe, if Karl Jr. didn’t talk. At least not in public. Sure, Noons is a decent fighter, but watching him stumble through six minutes, 35 seconds worth of half-finished sentences, "you knows" and grammar that is probably best described as “Tito-esque” in the above video makes me wonder if a better public relations strategy for him wouldn’t be to just stand there and smile and occasionally flip his lustrous hair out of his eyes.

Noons in fact does spend the first minute of his interview with Ariel Helwani talking about his hair. He’s growing it out, see, just for the experience and just in case he goes bald later in life. You never can be too careful. “It’s pretty crazy, dude,” he says about his plans to see how long he can get it. It takes until the 5:38 mark in this vid for Noons to get to the heart of anything interesting, like the recent comments he made about the UFC being “boring as hell.” When the subject does come up, Noons falls back one of the more tried-and-true defenses for morons who say shit they later regret: It was the media’s fault.

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Kennedy vs. Souza, Noons vs. Gurgel in Works for Strikeforce: Houston

Filed under: Strikeforce, NewsStrikeforce is moving forward with its middleweight division since releasing their champion Jake Shields.

Mauro Ranallo reported on Thursday’s edition of The Fight Show, that the organization is working towards putting to…

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Strikeforce is moving forward with its middleweight division since releasing their champion Jake Shields.

Mauro Ranallo reported on Thursday’s edition of The Fight Show, that the organization is working towards putting together a middleweight fight between Tim Kennedy and Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza at Strikeforce: Houston on Aug. 21. Strikeforce hasn’t decided whether the fight will be for the newly-vacated title or a part of the proposed 185-pound tournament.

Also in the works for the Houston card, which is expected to be headlined by Muhammed Lawal vs. Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante, is a lightweight fight between KJ Noons and Jorge Gurgel.