Comments on: Report: Melendez-Damm For Strikeforce Interim Title

By: dbiz

dbiz — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:29:56 +0000

Apparently Strikeforce bought EXC and then hired the idiots that made their decision.

By: timcat

timcat — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:04:38 +0000

Enough of this interim crap.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:28:53 +0000

I know, I thought about that after I hit the submit button. I always thought that Strikeforce was pretty well organized and Coker had a good head on his shoulders, but it seems like now that they have the added pressure of more fighters, Showtime and CBS their decision making has gone down. Headlining their first fight on Showtime with a catch weight fight, then the next major Showtime event will have a guy with (next to) no stand up skills moving up a weight class to fight a very dangerous striker, with strong enough wrestling to stop *some* take downs. These are not exactly my idea of great decisions.

By: dbiz

dbiz — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:24:07 +0000

Or middleweight, since Cung Le can’t be bothered to fight…ANYONE.

By: fr702

fr702 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:02:34 +0000

There are a few ways to look at this, imo….

Broken leg is what 6weeks cast? Then rehab, and to get into fight shape.. The last time The Punk fought was in September of ‘08, he was suppose to fight in November but broke a toe or some shhh… So in hopes that Gilbert wins this match, this lines up a unification match perhaps on when Cung Le defends his title towards the end of the year…

And StrikeForce is attempting to get ahold of Overeem to get him to defend his title “soon”, I don’t know what that exactly means but I understand your point.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:39:01 +0000

I don’t understand why they are putting up an “interim title” for this fight. It’s not Thomson’s fault he hasn’t defended the belt before now, then he goes and gets hurt so you have to make an interim belt? If you’re going to do that, where the heck is your interim Heavyweight champion fight?