Marloes Coenen breaks down the final seconds of her title fight against Sarah Kaufman, if the weight cut to 135 pounds hurt her strength at all and much more at the Diaz vs. Noons 2 post-fight press conference.
Marloes Coenen breaks down the final seconds of her title fight against Sarah Kaufman, if the weight cut to 135 pounds hurt her strength at all and much more at the Diaz vs. Noons 2 post-fight press conference.
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Even though it probably committed its welterweight champion to the wrong grudge match, Strikeforce has managed to cobble together a decent little card for its Showtime broadcast tonight. Nick Diaz’s main event b…
Filed under: StrikeforceSarah Kaufman hears the same questions over and over these days. It gets a little tiresome at times, but she knows she brought it on herself. She’s the squeaky wheel who demanded some grease on live television.
Sarah Kaufman hears the same questions over and over these days. It gets a little tiresome at times, but she knows she brought it on herself. She’s the squeaky wheel who demanded some grease on live television.
“It was one of those things that needed to be said at the time,” she told MMA Fighting this week. “If I was in the same situation again I would do it again, for sure.”
By it, of course, she means the moment right after her knockout slam of Roxanne Modafferi in her last Strikeforce 135-pound title defense when she took to the mic and called for her employer to stop relegating her fights to the small-time Challengers cards and start giving her the respect a champion deserves.
“I think I deserve it,” she said into the camera. “Put me on there.”
The icy glares of Nick Diaz and KJ Noons that have been haunting the top of our homepage all day should serve as a firm reminder — Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons II goes down tomorrow night on Showtime, starting at 10 p.m. Be sure to come back …
The icy glares of Nick Diaz and KJ Noons that have been haunting the top of our homepage all day should serve as a firm reminder — Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons II goes down tomorrow night on Showtime, starting at 10 p.m. Be sure to come back tomorrow for round-by-round results in our liveblog. In the meantime, check out the final thoughts from a few of the main card players in these clips from strikeforcefilms.
Above:Marloes Coenen and Sarah Kaufman discuss their 135-pound title scrap. 135 is an unfamiliar weight class for Coenen, but she’s had no problem with the cut, and as you can see during the face-off at the end, she’ll be carrying a serious height advantage.
After the jump: KJ Noons talks about his own trip to a new weight class, and his appreciation of Diaz’s style. Nick Diaz gives him props for taking the rematch, and suggests that he might not have been motivated in their first fight, due to Noons’s lack of name-value. ("I’d rather fight Fedor, y’know?") Then, some genius reporter asks Nick if he’s going to jump ship to the UFC, with Scott Coker sitting right next to him. Ouch. Also, Tyron Woodley breaks down his matchup with Andre Galvao and talks about his development in the sport.
Nick Diaz and K.J. Noons took questions from the media in the final press conference before Saturday’s Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons 2 event. MMA Fighting’s E. Casey Leydon was there to capture all the action.
Nick Diaz and K.J. Noons took questions from the media in the final press conference before Saturday’s Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons 2 event. MMA Fighting’s E. Casey Leydon was there to capture all the action.
Filed under: StrikeforceThe first time Marloes Coenen won a mixed martial arts title, she was a 19-year-old girl from Holland, fighting in Japan, and winning a title motivated her to decide to try to fight for a living, rather than go to a university.
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The first time Marloes Coenen won a mixed martial arts title, she was a 19-year-old girl from Holland, fighting in Japan, and winning a title motivated her to decide to try to fight for a living, rather than go to a university.
That was in 2000, and neither Coenen nor anyone else had any idea of how much MMA would change over the next decade. But as Coenen prepares to fight Sarah Kaufman for the Strikeforce 135-pound women’s title on Saturday night, she says she’s motivated by the opportunity to earn a second championship belt.
“It was so different then,” Coenen said. “This was an open-weight tournament for the ReMix World Cup, and the rules were different and there was a tiny Japanese girl fighting a Russian girl who was 330 pounds. Ten years ago, when I won that title in Japan, I had so many hopes and expectations, and now if I could win another title I would feel like it’s the beginning of a new decade.”
The first time