Cung Le vs. Scott Smith Official for Strikeforce: Evolution on December 19
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Nov 9, 2009 at 11:25 am ET19 Comments
Strikeforce announced over the weekend that former middleweight champion Cung Le will return to action on December 19 against Scott Smith at Strikeforce: Evolution at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
MMAFrenzy.com first reported the possibility of the matchup on Friday.
The Showtime-televised event also features Robbie Lawler, Matt Lindland, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, and Muhammed “King Mo”.
Tickets for the card, priced from $30, go on sale to the general public at 10am PT this Friday, November 13, through Ticketmaster.com.
Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com for the latest Strikeforce: Evolution rumors and Strikeforce news.
Pictured: Scott Smith
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sooooo. Cung Lee decides to relinquish the belt, so that he can return to action 3 months later? Now there is a fighter with a head on his shoulders.
And I gotta say, Scott Smith must be just loving strike force atm, because they love the death outta him. He does leave it all in the cage, that is for sure, but sub-par at best. I think Cung makes short work of him.
Scott Coker asked him to either fight or give the belt…. Well the movie that he was doing got pushed back and opened up a window for him to get a full training camp in and then fight, or you can take what Jake Sheilds said and Le is ducking him
which is laughable at best..
Le is ducking Jake Sheilds because Le doesnt want to dry hump each other with Shields for 5 rounds
o goodness
I think they said on the Saturday night broadcast that his movie got moved back last minute, and he wanted to stay sharp.
And yeah, they sure do seem to love Scott Smith…he still had the best punch ever against Pete Sell.
Smith always brings a fight and puts forth everything, alot of people not just Strikeforce like Smith, and ya that KO of Sell was really awesome
Since Cung Le has been a way for a while i think that for sure it will play a role in this fight. He’s going to have some cage rust and quite frankly, a long layoff such as the one he took will affect any fighter on their combcak fight.
I don’t think that Le is going to beat Scott Smith so easy simply because Smith has decent stand-up and power. The difference is that Le uses kciks and Smith does not. Le also doesn’t have a great ground game and neither does Smith but Smith has a huge heart and the guy has shown that when he comes into fights in decent shape he can be pretty tough,Le on the other hand tends to kinda gas in the later rounds which can possibly effect his performance being that he’s already going to have to deal with cage rust.
I know Cung Le is a very good striker but he’s not a great all around MMA fighter and i honestly think that Smith can pull off the upset and bring new life to his fading career with a win over someone like Le who IMO is flirting with being overrated because he’s not THAT great of a striker if you ask me.
I’m gonna go ahead and pick Smith via decision
Le’s striking is really good actually his style is fun to watch, but I’m not going to sit here all day and argue with you on that, I don’t think Smith’s career is “fading” but is he top ten in the MW no nevertheless this should be a good fight, my concern with Le is when was the last time he got hit in the face, honestly, Smith hits hard soo that will be interesting to see how he reacts the first time Smith hits him
Too much overrated comments…even Fedor is called overrated by some.
Please lets not turn this into a Fedor thread…
Awe, come on, it would be fun, it’s not like we don’t already have three other Fedor threads to talk about him on.
ThErE iS nO wAy AnYoNe CaN TaLk AbOuT FeDoR eNoUgH!!!!
Oh wait, I spelled everything correctly and spoke in a complete, grammatically correct sentence. Sorry. I’ll do better next time.
Huh?
Did someone say Fedor?
My cell chirped to let me know that his name was posted on another frenZy thread again.
Seriously, I have to believe that Cung Le is a bit p!ssed off with the Hollywood studio establishment. A few years ago I used to go out with a chick who was seriously into all sorts of movies, how they got made, who produced and directed what films for which studios, and on and on.
In their world, they think nothing of pushing back films 6-9-12 months or more, and leaving even established box office draws like George Clooney and Brad Pitt hanging.
So its no surprise that their a$$-hatted timing swerved Le, and circumstantially cost him the 185 title.
Unfortunately for him, the title now is worn by Strikeforce’s version of Jay Heiron, and its awfully tough to defeat someone with a ground game that seems entirely predicated on “grope and hope”, or “lay and pray”, or “fall and stall”, or whatever else you want to call it.
I would love to pick Scott Smith in this fight, but common sense tells me that as good a stand-up fighter as Smith is, he’s not the “master of san shou”, so he’s probably going to get T/KO’ed as soon as Le gets his cage bearings, which should be late second round…
Grope and hope? I’ve had dates like that.
Well actually, in all truthfulness, I was a date like that.
I thought Jay Heiron was Strikeforce’s version of Jay Heiron, since he does fight for them and all… just sayin.
Apologies.
That should have read the Strikeforce 185 division’s version of Jay Heiron…
I’m looking foward to this one.Although not sure which way i want it to go.A year ago i would have been going for Le,but now i don’t no.Smith still seems very passionate about fighting,and you just can’t say the same for cung.I just don’t want to see Le come back just to give smith another set back and then go on another hiatis.
I doubt that Le is going to fight with Jake Shields any time soon. Leaving Jake continues barking for Le and it is irritating me as being Le’s fan.
As Le has stated in some video I saw in youtube, his interest is only to fight in between his movies career and not tittle fight due to not able to defend it promptly.
And if Le won the belt and let it hanging again, it wouldn’t be good for Strike Force. Coker wouldn’t let it happening.