With this being the last event before Strikeforce's highly anticipated Heavyweight Tournament, the promotion didn't hold back on bit, giving the fans two championship bouts as part of a four fight main card. Welterweight champion Nick Diaz will defend his crown against Brazilian Muay Thai striker Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos. In the co-main event, BJJ black belt and submission specialist Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza defends his middleweight belt against top contender Robbie Lawler.
In the other main card bouts, Herschel Walker returns to the cage for his second MMA bout as he takes on Scott Carson in a heavyweight bout. To start off the card, submission master Roger Gracie would take on veteran Trevor Prangley.
Gracie - Prangley
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What Happened: gracie landing inside leg kicks early. gracie looks very comfortable on his feet. pumping a jab now, nothing with much power behind it. gracie clinches and prangley pushes off. more jabs 90 secs in. they clinch and gracie lands several knees before breaking. gracie clinches and trips prangley to the mat. gracie holding prangley down, slowly advancing and landing brief strikes. gracie moves to side and then to mount. gracie very patient taking his time. prangley pushes off the cage. gracie holds on amaingly with his hips and locks in a body triangle and takes prangley's back. he slowly works in a rear naked choke, eliciting a submission with 40 seconds left in the first round.
What Next
Walker - Carson
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What Happened:carson opens up with a head kick that causes walker to scream. they exchange and herschel drops him. herschel stacks him up and moves into guard. herschel maybe too aggressive here. carson goes for a leg lock, but walker is able to get loose. herschel jumps around and takes carson's back and drops some punches. carson gets back to his feet, but herschem ul lifts him up and drops him to the mat. herschel lands knees from the side and uppercuts under the armpit. more punches from herschel. carson turtling here, showing no real offense or defense. carson rolls over to his back. walker back to his feet. carson gets up and herschel pounces and drops him with a left hand. the ref jumps in to save carson, maybe a little prematurely, with just under 2 minutes left in the first.
What next:
Lawler - Jacare
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What Happened: lawler bouncing around a lot on his feet. lots of feints. looks very tight. ready to explode. head kick misses for souza. fling knee from robbie and they clinch. souza pushes robbie against the fence, and takes him down. jacare moves to side control. robbie unable to move. jacare to north south. passes to other side now. robbie shrimps out and gets to his feet. breaks away from the clinch. robbie throws a counter flurry. jacare backs up. a flying knee and right hand hurt jacare. robbie lands a right and a big left uppercut puts jacare on his back. lawler runs in and dives into jacares guard, where he is immediately tied up. jacare gets his breath back. robbie inactive in jacares guard. big john stands them up. lawler lands a kick and a couple of punches before souza drags him to the mat to end the round. a close back and forth round, 10-9 lawler.
round 2: jacare shoots in after some kicks are excahnged. robbie stuffs it, but jacare keeps pushing and gets him down. souza mounts momentarily but robbie uses the fence to get to half guard. jacare landing shots from half guard. looks for an arm triangle but cant cinch it. jacare passes to side control, then north south. back to the other side now. more punches land on robbie. robbie showing no signs of getting off his back. more hammerfists from jacare. brief scramble, jacare to guard, regains side control. goes for a knee bar but lawler defends. lawler tries to get up, jacare brings him back down, goes for an arm bar, lawler gets loose somehow. jacare stands over lawler, goes for his back again, goes for another armbar and once again lawler is able to get loose. robbie moves into guard and rests to end the round. 10-9 jacare, maybe even 10-8
round 3: jacare gets the thai clinch and lands several knees. jacare shoots, robbie stuffs it, but souza pushes him against the cage holding on to a leg, shoots for a double and takes robbie down. robbie shakes his head, obviously frustrated and being unable to stay on his feet. jacare landing knees on lawler. souza takes robbie's back and sinks in his hooks. puts in a body triangle. robbie keeping his chin tight, but not defending too well. jacare sinks in the rear naked choke and lawler taps out 2 minutes into the 3rd round.
What next
diaz - cyborg
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what happened: cyborg comes out right away with a huge head kick that misses diaz, followed by a spinning low kick. cyborg comes out landing hard leg kicks to the inside of diaz's lead right leg. diaz talking all sorts of trash early on. diaz pushes forward with punches and lands before clinching against the cage, they split and diaz lands more punches while cyborg lands more low kicks. diaz not needing to utilize angles much, just landing jabs and straight left hands. diaz gets tagged with a big shot, but rocks cyborg with straights and hooks and uppercuts. cyborg is rocked and backs up against the cage. cyborg looks winded while diaz is still pushing forward strong. diaz has found his range. just pawing at cyborg and landing everything he throws. jabs, straights, hooks. cyborg throwing knees and winging punches but landing nothing solid. 10-9 diaz
round 2: more kicks coming now from cyborg. big hooks, but nothing lands solid. nick letting cyborg throw shots to his body. keeps pushing forward with his pawing jabs and straight lefts. cyborg cant connect clean and diaz is trash talking him. cyborg lands more low kicks but nothing else of significance. a couple of hard right hands land. diaz lands a knee to cyborg. 90 seconds left, cyborg moving around more now. diaz looks bored. a few exchanges ensue before cyborg gets the takedown with 35 seconds left. diaz locks up an armbar within seconds and cyborg taps out. diaz jumps on the cage and talks shit to someone in the crowd. as he walks back into the cage he has beer thrown at his back.
what next
cyborg vs manhoef
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