Strikeforce Putting on Comparable Shows to UFC
Dec 21st, 2009 | By viratas | Category: MMA
Saturday night’s Strikeforce Evolution event on Showtime was very entertaining, with a couple of impressive wins from new Strikeforce fighters King Mo and Jacare Souza, followed by a couple of back-and-forth brawls with Gilbert Melendez beating Josh Thomson and Scott Smith beating Cung Le.
But was it as entertaining a show as a UFC pay-per-view?
Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow wrote after the fights Saturday night that “Tonight’s card and the January card are both stacked with intrigue for the serious and the casual MMA fan and compare quite favorably to UFC 108 and 109.” That’s a bold statement.
The UFC is the gold standard in MMA, and no American promotion has been able to put on shows consistently that can hold a candle to what the UFC gives MMA fans week in and week out. Affliction, for instance, put on two very good pay-per-view cards — but Affliction existed as a promotion for a year, did two cards, and then went out of business.
Read the entire article by Michael David Smith of www.mmafighting.com here…
