Frank Shamrock took home more than half of the total disclosed salaries for Saturday night’s Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz, earning $369,790 for his TKO loss to Nick Diaz. While Diaz only acquired $39,950 (including a $10,000 win bonus) for the victory. The second highest earner on the evening was Scott Smith who took [...]

Check out official photos after the jump of Nick Diaz, Gina Carano, Brett Rogers, Scott Smith, Gilbert Melendez, Cris Cyborg and more from Saturday's Strikeforce event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose.

Nick Diaz defeated Frank Shamrock via second-round TKO on Saturday in the main event of Strikeforce's event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. Gilbert Melendez captured the promotion's interim lightweight title with a second-round knockout of Rodrigo Damm in the evening's co-main event.

Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com's live coverage of Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz, which takes today at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. The event's preliminary card kicks off at 8pm ET with the Showtime-broadcast main card beginning at 10pm. Continue reading for live fight results and play-by-play...

Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos weighed-in six pounds over the 146-pound limit for her scheduled bout against Hitomi Akano on Friday in San Jose, California, and must shed an additional 2.5 pounds by 8pm PT for the bout to remain on the Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz card. The remainder of the main card successfully made weight.

Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le plans to return to action later this year, possibly for a rematch against Saturday headliner Frank Shamrock.

Kevin Randleman has signed with Strikeforce, Showtime has announced the Strikeforce broadcast team, Joe Riggs and Brett Rogers are under consideration to complete the April 11th main card, plus quotes and photos from Strikeforce's Thursday press conference.

Just hours after completing a deal to purchase select assets from ProElite, Strikeforce jointly announced with Showtime on Thursday a new live MMA series that calls for Showtime to televise up to 16 Strikeforce events per year.
The deal is similar to EliteXC’s prior deal with Showtime that included 4 primetime events on CBS and [...]

Adopted brothers Ken Shamrock (26-13-2), a UFC hall of famer, and Frank Shamrock (23-9-2), a former UFC and Strikeforce champion, have agreed, in principle, to square off in the main event of a 2009 pay-per-view event, according to ESPN.com.
Ken Shamrock, a loser of five-straight and seven of his last eight, was to headline [...]

There was a fantastic turnout at CBS Media Day for the historic Saturday, May 31 primetime EliteXC telecast on CBS (9 p.m.-11 p.m. ET/PT). The announce team for “CBS ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS’’ was announced, fighters demonstrated the rules of mixed martial arts and press had the opportunity to ask CBS and EliteXC executives, promoters, [...]

MMAFrenzy.com’s Orlando Mac recently had the opportunity to interview former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion and EliteXC announcer Frank Shamrock.
Enjoy the interview…
Orlando Mac: Tell us about Frank Shamrock?
Frank Shamrock: I see myself as a fairly normal guy, that lives a somewhat extraordinary life.
Orlando Mac: You recently lost to Cung Le in an epic battle in [...]

Former UFC and Strikeforce middleweight champion Frank Shamrock has been announced as part of the broadcast team for EliteXC’s CBS debut on May 31st. Joining Shamrock in the broadcasting booth for the inaugural “Saturday Night Fights” broadcast will be veteran announcers Gus Johnson and Mauro Renallo.
EliteXC “Saturday Night Fights” takes place on May 31st at [...]

Cung Le def. Frank Shamrock via TKO (injury) – Round 3, 5:00
Drew Fickett def. Jae Suk Lim via submission – Round 1, 1:14
Gilbert Melendez def. Gabe Lemley via TKO – Round 2, 2:18
Wayne Cole def. Mike Kyle via submission – Round 1, 0:45
Joey Villasenor def. Ryan Jensen via KO – Round 1, 4:45
Billy Evangelista def. [...]

All 18 fighters participating in tomorrow’s Strikeforce/EliteXC co-promoted event hit the scales earlier today in San Jose at the official weigh-ins for “Shamrock vs. Le”
Though most of the card made weight the event was not without its own share of issues, continuing the show’s string of recent problems. Frank Shamrock, who will be looking to [...]