good card, free on cbs....i enjoyed it. jake sheilds looked good. As did melendez and king mo. if anyone saw the end....with mayhem miller and diaz brothers......that was insane. if you saw it lol@ this wikipedia page of mayhem miller. someone took a screen shot before it was changed.
I thought it was a pretty bad showing. You want these network shows to be exciting, as it's the first exposure to MMA for a lot of people. The first fight was terrible. Moussasi couldn't do anything with a guy who couldn't do anything except take him down. That guy couldn't even get into guard. I can't remember a 'worse' champion in my life now that Mo has a belt. The second fight was tactical, but lacked action. I know who Aoki is for sure, and Melendez had the right gameplan. But it meant the road to victory was not overly entertaining. I thought Dan Henderson looked old in the third fight. Before the bell I thought he looked a bit soft. They said he had to drop a lot of weight along with back problems. Either way, Hendo was gassed after the first round and couldn't stop the takedown. After almost KO'ing Shields, he basically spent four rounds mounted. Just goes to show you that Dana White is always right! EDIT: The brawl at the end smelled funny. Struck me as staged, though the blows looked real.
I said the same thing, like they wanted the confrontation, however it quickly got out of hand. Overall, this is the first Strikeforce event which seemed like a letdown to me. You are not going to get any new fans interested with 5 rounds of dry humping and that happened twice. I know people who are already fans may enjoy it, but to new fans, it would be boring to watch. Just my opinion. Personally, I am not a fan of shields. He landed 216 shots and dominated the fight, however he never came close to finishing it.
Here's a video of the incident. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vau4RSvV834&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Strikeforce Nashville Brawl[/ame] Makes Strikeforce look bush league, IMO.
I thought this was a horrible show and glad it was free. Strikeforce is really screwed that they spent all that money on Hendo and he got punished.
Not sure I would call that punished. It would have been more entertaining for me had he taken Henderson's hands and slapped him with them, and kept yelling "Quit slapping yourself" the whole time. Probably would have done the same amount of damage. In all seriousness, there is no doubt that Shields was the dominate fighter, I am just not a fan of his style.
