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A community portal about Mixed martial arts with blogs, videos, and photos. Mixed martial arts involves two competitors battling for victory and allowed to use a number of diverse martial arts techniques, including striking and grappling. The two big MMA organizations are the Ultimate Fighting Championship and PRIDE Fighting Championships.
Strikeforce fighters Cung Le, Josh Thomson, Gilbert Melendez, Robbie Lawler, Scott Smith, Matt Lindland and Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza will be playable characters in the upcoming MMA videogame release, "EA Sports MMA."
Company officials unveiled the newest roster additions today.
The game, available on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms, is expected to be released in late summer 2010.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Welcome to the discussion thread for tonight's
"Strikeforce: Evolution" event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.
Catch round-by-round updates and official results from tonight's
preliminary and main cards in our "Strikeforce: Evolution" live results post . And then discuss the action, including the Cung Le vs. Scott
Smith and Josh Thomson vs. Gilbert Melendez co-headliners, in this
thread.
Tonight's preliminary card begins at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT), and the
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Strikeforce's longtime home produced another solid crowd as 14,749 attendees packed the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., for this past weekend's "Evolution" event.
The crowd created a live gate of $633,674.50, California State Athletic Commission officials confirmed with MMAjunkie.com.
The Showtime-televised event featured Scott Smith's dramatic, come-from-behind win over Cung Le in the night's headliner, and interim champ Gilbert Melendez unified the titles with a unanimous decision... Read Full Story
SAN JOSE, Calif. - MMAjunkie.com is on scene for today's "Strikeforce: Evolution" official fighter weigh-ins in San Jose, Calif.
Today's weigh-in ceremonies are set in the San Jose Ballrooms 1-4 of
the San Jose Marriott in downtown San Jose, Calif. Saturday's fight
card takes place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose.
Former Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le and fellow main-event
fighter Scott Smith, as well as the 16 other fighters booked for the
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - MMAjunkie.com is on scene and reporting live from
tonight's "Strikeforce: Evolution" event at the HP Pavilion in San
Jose, Calif.
Join us for live round-by-round coverage and official results of
tonight's card, which includes a main event between middleweight
strikers Cung Le and Scott Smith, and a co-headliner title-unification
bout between lightweight champion Josh Thomson and interim title-holder
Gilbert Melendez.
Preliminary-card action begins at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m... Read Full Story
Despite his status as a part-time fighter, Cung Le remains a star attraction.
More than a year and a half removed from his most recent bout, the Sanshou-trained martial artist returns to Strikeforce Saturday night to headline the promotion's final show of 2009. Le draws Scott Smith in a bout that is anything but a tune-up to ease back into combat.
In our official event preview, MMAjunkie.com's Steve Sievert discusses Le's long-awaited return to the cage, a lightweight title... Read Full Story
After going head-to-head with "WEC 45: Cerrone vs. Ratcliff" on Versus, Showtime's broadcast of "Strikeforce: Evolution" scored a nearly identical audience size.
WEC 45 drew 330,000 viewers, and Strikeforce's latest offering topped it slightly with 341,000 viewers, MMAjunkie.com today confirmed with officials.
"Strikeforce: Evolution" took place Dec. 19 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Gilbert Melendez got his revenge and topped Josh Thomson to unify the lightweight titles, but the story coming out of "Strikeforce: Evolution" was Scott Smith's stunning, come-from-behind knockout victory over the previously undefeated Cung Le.
The two bouts co-headlined Strikeforce's season-ending event, which took place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., and aired on Showtime.
It was a remarkable finish for the promotion, which saw a potential
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Despite suffering a shocking loss to Scott Smith in the night's headliner, Cung Le earned an event-high $150,000 at this past weekend's "Strikeforce: Evolution" event.
MMAjunkie.com today requested and received the list of disclosed salaries from the California State Athletic Commission.
The total disclosed payroll for the event, which took place Dec. 19 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., was $481,200.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Official fighter weigh-ins for Saturday's "Strikeforce: Evolution" event took place today at the San Jose Marriott in downtown San Jose, Calif.
The HP Pavilion in San Jose plays hosts to Saturday's Showtime-televised event, which features a main event between Cung Le and Scott Smith and a co-headliner title-unification bout between lightweight champion Josh Thomson and interim title-holder Gilbert Melendez.
Check out images from Strikeforce's Esther Lin as all of the... Read Full Story
