“Jacare” (10-2) advanced to the finals of DREAM’s middleweight grand prix last year with wins over Ian Murphy, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, and Zelg Galesic, but lost to Gegard Mousasi in the finals. Souza, a decorated grappler who won the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship in 2004 and 2005, returned to action in May in a rematch with “Mayhem,” but the fight ended in a no contest.

Lindland (21-6) left the UFC in 2005 following back-to-back wins and has since gone 6-3, but has dropped two of his last three. After suffering a first-round submission to heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko in 2007, Lindland bounced back with a unanimous decision over Fabio Nascimento last July at Affliction’s debut event. In his most-recent fight, Lindland suffered a brutal 37-second knockout at the hands of Vitor Belfort in January.

“King Mo,” an All-American wrestler at Oklahoma State, has emerged as one of the sport’s top prospects since making his MMA debut last September, winning four-straight in Sengoku in Japan before making his US debut in August with a 25-second knockout of veteran Mark Kerr. An opponent has not yet been announced for Lawal’s Strikeforce debut.

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Pictured: Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza

Strikeforce’s December 19th is beginning to shape up, fighters already rumored for the event include Robbie Lawler, and Scott Smith. Now joining them is a proposed middleweight match up between Matt Lindland and Ronald “Jacare” Souza, and the promotional debut of Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal against an as yet unknown opponent. [Fanhouse]

Pictured: Matt Lindland

A lightweight matchup between UFC veteran Jorge Gurgel and undefeated prospect Billy Evangelista will headline a November 6 “Strikeforce Challengers” event, which airs live on Showtime from the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California.

Pictured: Jorge Gurgel

An opponent has not yet been confirmed for the top-ranked heavyweight, though rumors have been making the rounds in recent days that Emelianenko could fight Ricco Rodriguez in the main event.

Matt Lindland has signed a three-fight deal with Strikeforce and will also make his promotional debut at the Showtime-televised event, with fellow-middleweights Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza and Jake Shields also expected to be in action on the card.

UFC President Dana White said last week that the UFC is considering adding a second October event to its schedule, joining UFC 104 on October 24 in Los Angeles, potentially setting up a head-to-head showdown between the UFC and Strikeforce on October 10.

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Dan Cramer has been released by the UFC following a Saturday loss to Matthew Riddle at UFC 101. The UFC.com profiles for Cramer, Thales Leites, George Roop and Danillo Villefort, have all been taken down, fueling speculation that Leites, Roop, and Villefort may have also been cut following their UFC 101 fights.

Pictured: Anderson Silva

Five preliminary “Day of Reckoning” bouts will air live on HDNet while six main card fights, including the heavyweight main event featuring former UFC heavyweight champions Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett, will air live on pay-per-view.

The Affliction “Day of Reckoning” fight card features:

MAIN CARD

• Josh Barnett vs. Andrei Arlovski
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
• Matt Lindland vs. Trevor Prangley
• Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Lauzon
• Pedro Rizzo vs. Ben Rothwell
• Jay Hieron vs. Drew Fickett

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Roy Nelson vs. Paul Buentello
• Mike Pyle vs. Jason High
• Albert Rios vs. Antonio Duarte
• Jay White vs. Chase Gormley
• Brett Cooper vs. Patrick Speight

Also, Matt Lindland (21-5) has found an opponent for his “Day of Reckoning” bout as he will meet UFC veteran Trevor Prangley (17-5) on the pay-per-view main card reports MMA Junkie.

Affliction “Day of Reckoning”, the upstart promotion’s second-ever event, takes place on October 11th at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Three bouts on the event’s preliminary card will air on HDNet beginning at 8pm ET with the pay-per-view main card commencing at 9pm ET.

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“Vitor is out, I spoke with him I think yesterday and he told me,” said [Affliction vice president Tom] Atencio. “Actually, it was on Tuesday we had a conversation for about an hour or so, and yeah, I guess he broke his hand in two places is what he told me and he had been having 2, 3 and 4 opinions on it. He finally got the opinion that he wanted I guess and they told him to step out for a while.”

Now, Atencio and the Affliction team will make an effort to find Lindland a new opponent as quickly as possible.

Speculation has run rampant that current Elite XC welterweight champion, Jake Shields, may be the fighter Affliction is courting to face Lindland on the Oct 11 show, but Atencio had no comment.

“I don’t confirm anything until I have all the papers signed,” he simply said.

Belfort defeated Terry Martin via second-round knockout at Affliction “Banned” while Lindland topped Fabio Negao via unanimous decision at the late-July event.

Belfort (17-8) defeated Terry Martin at Affliction’s first-ever event in July, but is currently serving a 180-day medical suspension and will need to be cleared early to take on Lindland (21-5), who topped Fabio Negao via unanimous decision at the July event.

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Vladimir Matyushenko was also officially added to the main card.

On the three-bout preliminary card, which will be broadcast on HDNet, IFL heavyweight champion Roy Nelson will meet Paul Buentello and Mike Pyle will take on Jason High.

The promotion also announced on Wednesday the signing of IFL lightweight standout Chris Horodecki. Horodecki will make his Affliction debut at “Day of Reckoning”, but his opponent has not yet been determined. IFL welterweight champion Jay Hieron is also expected to be in action at the October event.

Noticeably absent from the press conference was former UFC light hevayweight champion Tito Ortiz. Ortiz, who had reportedly signed a deal with the promotion on Tuesday that was to be announced at the Wednesday press conference, remains a free agent according to reports but is still expected to sign with Affliction in the coming days. He is expected to face UFC veteran Renato “Babalu” Sobral on the Affliction “Day of Reckoning” main card.

Rumored Affliction “Day of Reckoning” participants Aleksander Emelianenko, Tim Sylvia, and Ben Rothwell were not added to the fight card on Wednesday and are unlikely to fight at Affliction’s second-ever event.

Tickets for the event go on sale on Saturday, August 9th, at UNLVTickets.com and range in price from $75 to $500.

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“It’ll be a great fight, we’ll see who is the best of the world there”, Belfort told Tatame. “I saw his fight with Negão and he’s a warrior. He comes be over you, but I don’t think he has the strength to stay over me. I’ll go to knock him out. My punches are well-aimed and when it hits he won’t stand.”

Lindland (21-5) defeated Fabio Negao via unanimous decision at Affliction “Banned” on July 19th.

Belfort (17-8) knocked UFC veteran Terry Martin out cold in the second-round of their bout at Affliction’s first-ever event.

Affliction 2 will be headlined by a WAMMA heavyweight championship bout between title-holder Fedor Emelianenko and former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski.

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