Scott Coker confirms delay of the Heavyweight Grand Prix; Two title fights set for April 9th

i dont buy that......

Ya, this makes no sense at all, or if it is actually the case, why weren't they prepared in the first place? You'd never see this happen in the UFC. Say what you want about Dana the fascist dictator but, just as advertised, he keeps the trains running on time.

oh well lol . daley vs diaz . i want too see daley back hi freakn big mouth up now.

F*ck! What kind of personel does Coker have in his team? What a disaster and bullshit excuse!

most likely it had something to do with Josh Barnett and being declined

on fighting cause of past steroid use..,and Daiz has declined on drug

testing because of smoking some weed and other testing in the past

but most likely it was Josh, they thought California would say yes and let him fight and probably didnt leaving them screwed in California

and have to start all over some where else...lol.. Josh was a big part

of why Affliction went under having to cancel or completely change venues cost a ton

The cause of this delay is Josh Barnett not being able to fight in California, and most other states, because he is being a asshole about applying for a fight licence, and dealing with his issues in California. The sole fact that Texas is the new target state to hold this event confirms it. One of the few states known for ignoring other states AC suspensions

look on the bright side, i live in Dallas, im going to the FN event now woooo hooooo

Just when you thought Strikeforce was gaining some kind of momentum, yet they still found a way to ruin it.

just step on my heart

o nice either way i'll be happy, i want to see diaz vs daley

Yeah that'll be a stacked card if all the fights listed above are on it, so I won't be too disappointed about the GP delay. i just want to see Overeem fight! Hopefully he'll get a fight in Dream sometime between now and then.

Fail Coker! Alistair is now the only reason to watch the tourney! You're gonna push it off until you can't even get it done inside the year, then end up with Fedor and Alistair having only fought once in the entire year again!

and this is why SF is lame....

I think we found a winner in looking for explanations here.

Gilbert Melendez just posted on facebook via twitter that the fights will be in San Diego - should be a pair of good Championship fights. sure hope the Skrap Pack and represent and win both fights. The Daley fight should be fun, Nick can hang in there with his boxing and submit him @ will...go Gracie JJ!

Just when i thought Strikeforce was finally becoming organized....

strikeforce doesn't have the brand-name nor the promotional materials that the UFC has. If the UFC decided to have a tournament this epic not only would they be able to have it any where they please, but sell it out almost instantly. Hopefully this gives Reem the incentive not to resign with Strikeforce and join-up with the UFC soon.

So you're telling me Coker setup this tournament without planning where the events would take place and stuff? I'm calling shenanigans.

IF ONE MORE PERSON SAYS SHANANIGANS IM GONNA!

Hey what's that goofy restaurant like? You know, the one with all the shit on the walls?

What Shananigans?

The replacement card ain't half bad. The only positive thing I have to say about this two bit promotion.

I can not believe all of you whiney little girls just looking for any opportunity to bash on Strikeforce. SF has come a hell of long way and has done very well, especially the last couple yrs. The positives outway the negatives by a large margin.



Who knows exactly what the setback w the GP is all about...and who gives a f*ck? Its a minor setback...and there will be 2 great title fights in the mean time.



I certainly don't agree w all the decisions the UFC and Zuffa have made in their history. Maybe a lot of you need to find a strictly UFC fansite where you can chat w other little UFC fanboys about how perfect the UFC and is and bash on everybody else in the MMA biz just like your idol Dana. F*cking pathetic.

you didnt get our point, we are not ufc nuthuggers. we appreciate how the ufc run their company wht if thet delay every show they have? would ufc be succesful? we just want some other oranization that can compete with ufc and have a healthy competition instead SF is ruining their own organization with useless excuse, its important this time specially that they are gaining and impact and have a good run with the HW division. be open minded dmbass.

Awesome point.



lol

the replacement card looks great but i sm still dissapointed looks like the HW tournement is going to take two years instead of the six to eight it should of been

I dont know what all the bitching is about. If a fighter gets injured regardless of what organisation he fights in there's a chance fights get delayed. Look at Rua Evans for example. In this case it has more to do with Barnett as we all know, but none the less the fight is delayed and instead 2, yes TWO title fights. It isn't like anything has been cancelled you haters so stfu wivya immature hating on anything non UFC and if you really think they suck i hope not to see any of your pathetic opinions about Diaz Daley or Melendez Kawajiri. In fact if you really think Strikeforces sucks follow something else instead that you do like.

Your right having two titles fights is a bonus for the fans and we have some exciting fights to look forward to. However I have always been disappointed with SF consistency and thier ability to organise things correctly, the John Barnette issue should have been dealt with swiftly and would have been if he were in the UFC. What makes the UFC so much bigger is the ability to draw in the casual fan, the HW tournament was what brought such good numbers on Showtime for SF. SF have some of the best fighters in the world and thats why I watch their cards, but when Dana calls SF ''bush league'' it definetly applies to SF as an organization imo.

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What makes UFC so much bigger is they have been around for alot longer and Pride folded allowing them to snap the majority of talent that was around a few years ago making them the premier MMA organisation, coupled with a rise in interest and better media technology to attract and deliver to a wider audience. Strikeforce has put on some great nights of mma last year. Not as many as the UFC, but great non the less. Barnett is a mistake IMO, they should never have signed him given his track record and the licensing problems, but they haven't and whilst it seems bad for a big org to delay a tournament of this significance and anticipation, they are still a serious outfit that will continue to deliver great mma.



Like I already said, fights get delayed due to injury all the time and replacement fighters are found or fight postponed with replacement fights instead. the only difference in this instance is it is not an injury causing the delay but two title fights, Daley - Diaz in particular is fantastic.

Your right again, Barnette was a mistake I said that on here when I first heard of his issues of him getting licensed. TSF should ahve assisted him in th matter and had a clear stratergy in place to do so. But like I said BUSH LEAGUE describes how they run things. It'll be very interesting to see what type of numbrs this show does on showtime. The jake Sheilds v Hendo card didn't do very well and there were 3 tites fights on that card. Fedor's fight with Werdum only did 400k on Showtime as well.

What just happened here its unaceptable and the excuse its horrible, at least 2 title fights will reduce the anger, but still.. WTF?!!

Another bush league, second rate move by Coker and S.F. Pretty soon they will be holding S.F. events in Coker's back yard.

so u think tehres no mma organization but the ufc? everything else is second rate?

So many whiners! Sh*t happens. Accept the facts and move on.



How can anyone be disappointed with the replacement card? Two title defenses with Diaz and Melendez!



Really...you're all whining about that? Get a grip.

woooooooooooooooooooooooooow gegard back in action and also gilbert melendez...........gilbert is best, he would **** frankie edgar up baaaaaaaad...........yeah ufc fanboys I said it, so come and get it bitches

gilbert would get owned by ufc top lightwheights

No.

Here is my thought on this one. Probably, Coker is playing safe and it is all because of Barnett. Barnett cannot get his license, so Coker made this delay, so Barnett has some time to get it. In case, if Barnett fails again, it gives Fedor 3 months to recover and train to replace Barnett in June. So, if Barnett comes clean and ready, it will be Barnett vs Rogers, if not , possibly Fedor vs Rogers.

I love this tactic now employed by the blatant anti-UFC crowd: If you call someone a "fanboy" of something, everything they've said, no matter how true, correct, valid or fair it is, is automatically thrown out the window.



You ****ing morons such as wartaal and YourMom are more bias than any fan of the UFC could ever hope to be. You really want to defend this amateur shit? It has NOTHING to do with SF v. UFC; it has to do with the FACT that this would NEVER happen in the UFC, not in a billion years, all of the issues would have been sorted out and if they couldn't have been sorted, they wouldn't have made the tournament in the first place.



The tourney fights got pushed back TWO MONTHS?? That is not just a bit of a delay, that's a full cancelation and future scheduling of a distant event. Bushleague, indeed - ****ing anti-UFC-fanboys. Strikeforce keeps setting up the world in its palm and then spitting on it and shaking hands with retardation.

exactly, people who call other people ufc fan boys are just dana haters and are the most biased of all. the tournament is dead to me now. its gonnna take over a year to get done, that is if it even gos through. i dont see how overeem is just gonna accept being able to fight like one or two times the whole year. hopefully he leaves that halfassed orginization and comes to ufc so i can see one of my dream match ups, overeem vs dossantos. and you dana and ufc haters just think of this, if strike force and all its fighters just dissapeared, there would still be fights every month, but the ufc and all its fighters dissapeared there would be an event every 2-3 months.

I like to watch the UFC fights and SF. I don't hate DW, but I don't like him. I have fighters whom I like and whom I don't like from both organizations. But your statement is just false, if the UFC fighters just disappeared and SF stays, believe me, there would not an empty space. It is just a law of life. Look at Pride, it disappeared, now, we have the UFC as the largerst organization.



The UFC puts good shows and sometimes with problems, sometimes not. The same is with SF. I give credit to SF trying to put the HW GP together for the first time and it is no always smooth. There is no guarantee if the UFC tries to put HW GP or LHW GP, it would go as planned.

You obviously have a very blinkered knowledge of mma if you think there would only be an event every 2 to 3 months without the UFC.



Firstly, you seem unaware of the various other mma organisations putting on shows. I assume you are American so you should be aware of Bellator and Strikeforce. Google it or wiki it and you will see there is alot more to the mma world than them.



Secondly, without the UFC where do you think most of their talent would go to?



I personally would love nothing more than the UFC to fold as I think DW ultimately will be ahinderence to the growth of MMA with his totally unprofessional immature behaviour. MMA is on the verge of mainstreamdom and needs professionalism at this point in time for the next step IMO. Most of the fighters would sign with Strikeforce or Bellator and we could well see the obstacle that is DW contract rights prohibiting cross promotional fights removed and we could all get to see dream match ups we currently cannot.

Fighters like Overeem and fedor would not sign a contract with UFC because they lose all rights and freedom. he also blocked Couture from fighting fedor a couple of years ago. Other orgs are copying the UFC (gotta own everything) BS which at present is one of the biggest obstacles to it being a legit sport. How can any champion be undisputed when they are not allowed to fight other champions? At least in boxing they have unification bouts. With DW that is impossible.

At least Daley is going go KO Diaz



WAR DALEY

@MMA ADDICT, Wishful thinking on your part bud. Most of the Brit fighters are one dimensional, smack talking p*ssies and Daley is the biggest p*ssy out of all of them.



...and just looking at the guy you can see he secretly likes knobbing the hobgoblin!



....if you catch my drift?!

"Tired of Zuffa Zombies"

Look Strikeforce is doing the right thing.

It is plus for MMA fans to have more than two org

that do well. Just remember fight is fight anything

can happen,if ufc is superior just co-promote and see.

When ufc sent Chuck liddell to fight PrideFC fighter,what happened, he got his AZZ hand it to him by Rampage.



So enough with that ufc rant, and learn to support all MMA.

Also, it is a known fact that Liddell fought through that tournament not having fully recovered from an injury, leg related I think.

Yup two title fights in one night, including Diaz - Daley and so many whining fannies. Not many true fans around on lowkick. Alot of big UFC fans though.

It sucks that this happened but it is a short delay and they seem to be putting together a pretty sick card to replace it so I am just as happy.