Former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion and current DREAM title
contender has never been one to sit around much between fights.
After a 31-second dispatching of UFC vet Jake O’Brien at this past
weekend’s DREAM.15 event, Mousasi is already itching to get back in
action.
Three times, in fact.
Weigh-ins for Friday’s “Strikeforce Challengers 9: Del Rosario vs. Mahe”
event are scheduled for Thursday at Comcast Arena of Everett in
Everett, Wash.
The event, which begins at 7 p.m. PT local time (10 p.m. ET), is free
and open to the public.
The same venue also hosts Friday’s fight card, which airs on Showtime.
Washington-based grappling ace Miesha Tate is the
third official contestant in Strikeforce’s upcoming four-woman 135-pound
tournament.
Strikeforce officials recently announced the addition of Tate, who joins
Hitomi Akano and Maiju Kujala in
the single night tourney.
While the final slot has yet to be determined, the four women will
square off at Strikeforce Challengers 10, which takes place on Aug. 13 at the Dodge Theatre
in Phoenix, Ariz.
With Bellator’s second season complete, the company’s four champions
each now know which challenger they will face in the rapidly approaching
third season in company history.
With that in mind, our weekly MMAjunkie.com/”Inside MMA” poll asked
readers to predict which champion was least likely to maintain his belt
in his upcoming title defense.
The results were revealed on this past Friday’s new edition of HDNet’s
weekly MMA news show, and while Eddie Alvarez, Lyman Good, Hector
Lombard and Joe Soto each received a healthy amount of votes, one
champion was targeted heavily by our readers.
As a reminder, submissions for the upcoming edition of “The Sunday Junkie” are due Sunday at 10 a.m. ET.
All topics – including Bellator’s upcoming third season and UFC champ Georges St-Pierre’s potential retirement plan – are open for
discussion. The person who sends in the submission we deem the best -
based on timeliness of subject, clarity and overall persuasiveness -
will be invited onto MMAjunkie.com Radio to discuss the topic.
Each winner will also receive a free year’s subscription to Fighters Only, the world’s leading MMA and lifestyle magazine!
Weigh-ins for the upcoming UFC on Versus 2 event take place Friday, July
31, at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, Calif.
The same venue hosts the following night’s fight card, which features a
headliner of Jon Jones vs. Vladimir Matyushenko and three other
televised bouts.
Light heavyweight contender winner Krzysztof Soszynski hosts a Q&A
session prior to the weigh-ins at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT local time).
DREAM’s American representative says the Japanese promotion’s prosperity
depends not only on new capital, but a plan to spend it well.
And when that happens, DREAM hopes more fans will part with their cash.
Mike Kogan, Director of FEG USA, on Friday told MMAjunkie.com that the lucrative new deal between DREAM’s parent
company, Fighting and Entertainment Group, and Shanghai-based investment
bank PUJI Capital is an important step in regaining MMA’s foothold in
Japan and the rest of the world.