Barnett to Strikeforce?

http://mmabay.co.uk/Story%2003760.html

This would be really interesting. If Strikeforce got their hands on Barnett they would have a great Hw devision.

Fedor
Barnett
Werdum
Overeem
Big Foot
Rogers
Lashley
Sefo
Roger Gracie (I think is under contract)
Monson (Rumoured)

I dont expect much from 47 year old Herschel Walker seeing as he is a very small Heavy and at his age he better make a flying start!

They also have King Mo who said he could fight at heavy and will have fought at heavy for his last 2 fights

Andrei Arlovski anad Tim Sylvia are free agents and Tim is competing in Dream so theres every chance we will see him in Strikeforce.

Also there Ironhead who fight for Dream again with the alliance they could have him compete in the states. Their heavyweight devision really will be strong if they get Barnett and a few of the free agents. With Hendo under contract it seems Strikeforce are getting stronger and stronger.

good signing strikeforce hw division is as or if not better than the ufc's one

Daniel Puder is another who has long standing ties to Strikeforce and could be excellent if he was to commit full time to MMA.

Too risky to sign IMO, he can always screw you over.

Right now Id like to see Fedor fight Werdum, thats an intresting fight. Werdum can cause any fighter in the world fits on the ground. However its unlikely, Fedor should fight Overoid who will finally defend his title in 2007. Fedor should have the first shot. Overoid doesn't deserve to have the belt, it should be between Werdum and Fedor.

But whats going to happen is Overoid will fight Fedor for the title and Werdum will fight someone else for the number one contender spot. Either Barnett or Rogers.

"Daniel Puder is another who has long standing ties to Strikeforce and could be excellent if he was to commit full time to MMA."

From the fights ive seen him in he looks really talented. Good striker, pretty strong, decent ground game. After a warm up fights Id love to see him vs Lashley.

Has he gotten his license apealled yet??



http://mma.fanhouse.com/2009/10/27/josh-barnetts-license-appeal-delayed-until-december/



Would be a risky signing

Forget about Daniel Puder. He hasnt been in wrestling for ages so he probabally wont bring the sort of fans Lashley will be he looks a better fighter. Its a solid enough devision. If they signed Barnett It like to see...

Fedor vs Overeem (title fight)
Barnett vs Werdum (number 1 contender fight)
Brett Rogers vs Bigfoot
Lashley vs Sefo

Doesn't matter, he is a good fighter and was in MMA long before WWE. He isn't a draw but he can provide competition.

dan puder is good but is he tough enough?

Shanemc wrote:dan puder is good but is he tough enough?

he got burned for this by all the wwe veterans in every match he had hereafter.

Did he do something wrong here or what

Never understood why he was trying to go for a Kimura or a "keylock". What the hell hapened with the writers as well, did they expect from Puder to go in with no moves or anything? Still it was stupid from Puder, he could have brocken Angle's arm.

BTW Michael Cole and Tazz are incredibly stupid. Cole is worse because he is annoying. The Mike Goldberg off professional wrestling but worse.

redmeanie77 wrote:Did he do something wrong here or what

Dave Meltzer on the fight...

It was real. If you don't follow fighting, Puder had Angle locked in the Kimura, or keylock as Tazz called it, although Tazz didn't let on the move was fully executed. Not only was Angle not getting out of the move, but most MMA fighters would have tapped already. Angle couldn't tap for obvious reasons. The ref counted a three even though Puder's shoulders weren't fully down, trying to end the thing, because the reality was Angle would have been in surgery had it gone a few seconds longer or had Puder not given up the hold.

redmeanie77 wrote:Did he do something wrong here or what

haha yeah, if he had made angle tap to the keylock it would have embarrassed and ruined one of their most "over" wrestlers. (over = won over the fans, people accept him as one of the best guys in the wwe and will pay to see him), so thats why he pissed everyone off.

look at what happened to bart gunn after he KO'd doctor death in brawl for all, dr death was a guy who wwf wanted to push as a big star. WWF managers ruined Bart's wrestling career after that.


and Tazz isn't stupid, he is just trying to say what his bosses would want him to say, not what is actually going on, he is one of the toughest guys in wreslting and knows what a keylock is haha.

fair play to angle though he toughed it out, and in a wrestling match thats a win.

To capitalise on Bart Gunn's victory over Doctor Death he got put in against Butterbean at Wrestlemania. 30 seconds later Gunn was eating canvas, he was released shortly after.

I thought it was staged and they had Kurt fight the "cagefighter" who tried a kimura but Kurt pinned him in the end.

They should have told him not to try and win then or use the mma moves, they knew he was a fighter right?

redmeanie77 wrote:I thought it was staged and they had Kurt fight the "cagefighter" who tried a kimura but Kurt pinned him in the end.

They should have told him not to try and win then or use the mma moves, they knew he was a fighter right?

no, the pin was an improvisation by angle and the ref once the keylock was on.

i dont know what was supposed to happen.

the contest was called tough enough and the winner got a $million contract with the wwe, puder won btw.

they knew he was a fighter, but going for that was stupid for the reasons i have said below, not stupid if you want to win the fight, stupid if you want a career.

"and Tazz isn't stupid, he is just trying to say what his bosses would want him to say, not what is actually going on, he is one of the toughest guys in wreslting and knows what a keylock is haha.

fair play to angle though he toughed it out, and in a wrestling match thats a win"

Cagefighting doesn't automatically mean UFC. Thats whats annoying and at this point Cole and Tazz were the worst commentaters in pro wrestling. Then I heard the TNA guys.

When you say wrestling match, do you mean pro or real wrestling? Because either way, I don't think Puder's shoulders were on the mat, Cornette was just really clever and realised Puder was being an idiot. Either way Angle has got a lot of balls not to tap to that, his arm could have been brocken. Its not all Puders fault though, the writers really fucked up here.

Enough about WWE,josh-stop taking steroids,get your ass to strikeforce and lets get the fedor fight on!!(tho he will probly lose like everyone else)