Quick Hits: Diaz vs. Shamrock Announced, War Machine Arrested, and More
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Feb 10, 2009 at 4:48 pm ET42 Comments
- Strikeforce has announced that Nick Diaz and Frank Shamrock will meet at a catchweight of 179-pounds in the main event of the promotion’s April 11th event.
- Just days after being released by Bellator Fighting Championships for controversial statements posted on his MySpace account, former UFC fighter War Machine (Jon Koppenhaver) has been arrested in Las Vegas on misdemeanor battery charges stemming from an incident at the gay nightclub Krave.
- 7,596 fans attended UFC Fight Night 17 on Saturday at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida, generating a live gate of $428,000
- Seth Petruzelli, Bobby Lashley, and Roy Nelson vs. Jeff Monson have been added to the undercard of Roy Jones Jr.’s March 21st hybrid boxing/MMA event in Pensacola, Florida.
- Nissen Osterneck will make his UFC debut against Jorge Rivera at UFC Fight Night 18 on April 1st in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Mac Danzig, Josh Neer, Cain Velasquez, and Joe Lauzon took home $30,000 bonuses for their performances at UFC Fight Night 17.
- HDNet has announced that it has reached a deal with World Victory Road to broadcast Sengoku events in North America beginning with Sengoku 8 on March 20th.
- Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos has signed with Strikeforce and talks are underway for her to meet Gina Carano later this year.
- Phil Baroni has announced that he’ll next fight at a May Strikeforce event in Seattle, Washington.
- Featherweights Wagnney Fabiano and Fredson Paixao will square off at WEC 40.
- Kurt Pellegrino ($32,000), Cain Velasquez ($30,000), Anthony Johnson ($26,000), and Gleison Tibau ($26,000) were the top earners at UFC Fight Night 17, which had a disclosed payroll of $304,000.
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wat did war machines dumb ass say now and is it any stupider then when he opened his mouth bout evan tanner?
By the sound of it Jon took the term gay bashing literally and no i don’t condone it.
Koppenhaver said, in regards to the new president, “I hope someone smokes that f*cker and every president to come until they can actually give us a candidate that is truly one of THE PEOPLE.”
WAR MACHINE said something about borack obama. Dude, he’s a disturbed guy. He seems to be angry @ the world and has this ” i don’t give a $hit” attitude about everything and everyone. He better star giving a $hit because this is the second organization he’s gotten himself kicked out of in about a year.
Hope shamrock gets his ass kicked. I hate him!
Can’t wait to see Guyborg vs carano. Carano is smoking!
Hey Kris,I heard Rich Clementi was released from the UFC.Do you know if that is permanent or just a contract issue? I think before win bonuses were factored in he was the highest paid fighter on the UFC Fight Night 17 card, so with the loss it’s understandable that Dana might want to renegotiate.
wow all kinds of excitement in mma this week
Diaz vs F. Shamrock!? That should be great! I am really looking forward to that fight. Hope I am not the only one. Nick Diaz can be very entertaining. I was lucky enough to be in Vegas and catch Pride 33 live, to witness his epic battle vs Gomi. Quite possibly one of the best fights ever. I think this one too should live up to the hype.
And then he opens his mouth and thwearth for ten minuteth to thelebrate hith ghettoneth and to loudly proclaim he ith from Thockton and he reprethenth.
it took me alttle while, but that sh!t is FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!
nice one DbiZ
it said, on misdemeanor battery charges stemming from an incident at the gay nightclub Krave? At a gay club? what was he doing AT a gay club?
Do you really need it explained to you?
Hahahahaha
Well played, sir.
well its either because he is gay? which i doubt! or he was looking for trouble?
I can’t wait for Diaz to whip on Shamrock. Frank Shamrock thinks he is better than what he actually is.
Kind of like Diaz…. 6-4 UFC and he lost to KJ Noons (which really ought to count as 10 losses). There’s some underrated action there.
Do you even watch the fights? Of the 4 decision losses – 2 are disputed,that being Riggs and Parisyan.The other 2 were against Sanchez and Sherk.Look at the calibre of fighters he has faced.The loss to Noons was due to a cut.He has only been taken out one other time in his career and he has never been submitted.In his 9 fights since the UFC his only loss was to Noons due to the cut.His beautiful gogoplata submission victory over Gomi was overturned due to marijuana. Underrated?-Definitely.
Oh, so he’s just misunderstood and unloved, got it.
Riggs? Loss. Make excuses all you want. He lost.
Parisyan? Loss. See above.
Noons? Loss. More excuses from you, another loss for your “underrated” fighter.
Sanchez and Sherk? Just proof that he is, at best, a low-level gatekeeper with a potty mouth and a propensity to do stupid sh it so he is thrown out of the UFC.
Gomi? More of the same. Decent fighter, crappy decisions. Not worth my time in the long run.
He has a lot of great wins against nobodies lately (Thomas Denny, Muhsin Corbbrey, Ray Steinbess, Mike Aina). Makes that last BIG win over Ficket at UFC 51 look hella impressive.
well said dbiz.
i think shamrock will win via decision.
i cant stand either of the diaz brothers.
He’s going to jail for a long time. Second offense battery. Not good.
what the heck is the war machine doing? first he messes it up with the UFC and it keeps getting worse until now he arrested
you doubt he’s gay? Nothing about that sentence isn’t gay. If he’s a dude, and he’s going to gay night clubs, he’s obviously a gay dude.
I have been waiting for Koppenhaver, I refuse to call him war machine,
to screw up like this again. He don’t need mental help, he needs a prison cell.
I can’t wait till Carano vs. Guyborg. I really think that could be fight of the year.
Why Nick Diaz wants to fight Frank Shamrock is beyond me. Frank will teach him some respect.
I don’t care about Roy Jones or his hybrid fight card.
Danzig received a bonus for his performance??? That’s… odd.
Fight of the night. Both participants get money in the fight of the night.
Why does Baroni still fight?
Man, Nick is going to get killed by Shamrock. His standup is no where near Frank’s and I don’t see him being able to take frank down and pound him out, Frank is a big MW and nick is a smaller WW.
As much as I really do not like Frank Shamrock because of his personality it’s hard to say he doesn’t have some talent. It’ll be a difficult fight for Diaz with Frank’s size advantage and also Diaz has an olympic style boxing pedigree(high percentage of shots just make contact with little actual damage) which will not help him out much. Frank would be smart to stay on his feet and only go to the ground if he has an opportunity to finish with ground and pound because otherwise Diaz has superior ground skills.
I don’t know that Frank should be too worried about Diaz’s guard. Frank has been in with a Gracie legend and held his own, Diaz is going to be much smaller so he can easily power out of a lot of submission attempts. The triangle would be Nick’s most obvious submission (Barring he is able to reproduce a go-go-plata somehow again) and I just don’t see Frank not seeing that coming and not being able to power out of it. I think Nick is going to get his ass handed to him, but maybe it’ll humble him?…. …. naaahhh but at least we get to see him get his ass kicked.
Yes finally a good MMA promotion to come to Washington! Excited and hopefully i will be able to go if they dont have it in a casino they will probably have it in the KeyArena. This would be awesome if the venue doesnt change im pumped! Its not the UFC or WEC but its a start.
Hasn’t Strikeforce done shows up there in the past?
I’m in the midwest and like beer and wings during fights, so I don’t get to many but there’s a lot of regional stuff around here.
dbiz,
Wings and beer are amazing. I’ve been going to Buffalo wild wings for the last few UFC events. Place gets nuts.
I had to be there at 7 to get a table for the last one. It’s out of control.
You’re on Central time right? So that would mean two hours before the start?
We used to go to one bar nearby that showed them with no cover just show up and eat/drink/stand around and watch/whatever, but to get a seat you had to get there by 8, and then you ended up in a booth looking up at the 19 inch screens hanging from the ceiling, if you wanted a seat to see the big screens you had to get there earlier than that. We switched to going to a place that had a $5 cover, but you still had to get there at least an hour early, now I have people come here and split the cost. The people that come here are good about paying, and it ends up being cheaper that way than going to a bar or whatever.
Eastern. Three hours early. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could get more of the guys that come out to get there early too.
Wow…three hours early sucks hardcore. I remember seeing people sitting at the bars holding tables at 8, and the rest of their table would show up at 10:15. Personally it pissed me off that I’m there to get a table at 8:00 and here’s some dude sitting at a table with 12 seats all by himself telling me his friends are coming, then they wouldn’t even show up until the PPV had already started.
Hey now, I feel like you’re persecuting my people. I get there early as well… Not quite so early, but still. And we need to get there before Mini-Brock does again. I’ll try to get there to hold a seat for the next one.
Hey did you read Warmachines myspace thingy? Someone has talked to his lawyer, atleast thats what ive gotten from it…
I can’t find it, where did you read it?
potato
Thanks. Yeah, it does look like a lawyer or something has gotten a hold of him. Either that or he fired his PR guy and got one that knows what the heck he’s doing.
Jusitn I dont believe shhhh this kid says, but most likely he did get a lawyer and he said War WTF is wrong with you? and advised him to retract statements and yada yada, the guy is not too intellegent but whatever, He wants to be a bad boy in the sport, I say go get bent