Don't really know what to make of this, but this is why I'm in favor of a mass exodus of every viable UFC-caliber fighter to the UFC. Keeping a handful of top end guys in the minor leagues isn't going to make Strikeforce any stronger IMO.
I'd like SF to act as a minor league to the UFC and it is what it is must be one of the stupidest phrases in history. Just a response for a nincompoop who can't explain himself properly.
King Mo should be glad that he'll be kept out of the UFC for the time being anyway.
...Keeping Strikeforce operational, the UFC will just collect more money. If you owned a Walmart and a Target, it wouldn't make sense to close Target and bring all the employees over to Walmart when you can rake in money from both businesses...
You are a terrible business person then. I'd close Target and fire all the employees and make everyone shop at Walmart, same overhead cost as before but twice as many customers means more money. Keeping both open would mean you are competing with yourself with the added cost of the extra employees.
Which I am surprised UFC isn't doing this, make UFC the only game in town, and keep Strikeforce the minor league.
Eh, outside of strikeforce and the UFC there arent any real great fights at LHW. At least Strikeforce can put him in there with someone decent every now and again. The second runner up is Bellator and their LHW division is a freaking joke. To sum this up, it could be worse.
It's been said a few times but i'd love to see the UFC keep SF around and flood it with the lower end fighters from the UFC, as a kind of reserve pool, specifically concentrating on LW, WW and MW which are the deepest divisions wouldn't be a bad idea:
Middleweights:
Jason McDonald, Alessio Sakara, Ed Herman, Dan Miller, Eric Schafer and Tom Lawlor.
Welterweights:
Josh Neer, Matt Brown, Dan Hardy, James Wilks, Daniel Roberts and Mike Pyle.
Lightweights:
Spencer Fisher, Yves Edwards, Jeremy Stephens, Mac Danzig, Aaron Riley and Efrain Escudero.
If those names moved over to SF it would deepen and strengthen their divisions massively, and most of the guys listed rarely make it off the pre-lims yet most would be Main and Co-Main fighters in SF.
I definitely agree. It would be fascinating to see young prospects develop as well. I would just take Ed Herman off that list. He's an extremely underrated savage who looked spectacular in his last two bouts. Also maybe Pyle and Stephens too since I have them in my top 20 in their respective divisions. Theres about 60 guys in LW and WW... might as well take guys from the bottom 30 of each.
Strikeforce is going to be around on Showtime for at least this next year. From the looks of it I think ShoMMA is going away. Either these guys are going to stay where they are or they will go to the UFC overtime.
Can we just fold Strikeforce already and bring the good fighters to the UFC while the bad ones are left unemployed? Talk about wasting everybody's time...
Zuffa needs Striforce.
They can't just go out and buy a new company every other 3 years.
There are more and more new talent out there and the UFC alone can't hold all that talent.
Keeping Strikeforce is a great market strategy, they'll be able to absorb the incoming talent, keep the UFc talent on losing strikes and at the same time, they are not giving away "room for other company's to grow.
Honestly I can see both sides of the argument for folding Strikeforce. As has happened in the past it makes sense to import the good fighters into the UFC. Then on the other hand it makes sense to keep Strikeforce as a kind've feeder promotion.
Well if you think about it that's what they did with the WEC for a while. But you have to remember that Strikeforce has a women's division and the UFC does not. It's like when the WEC had bantemweight and featherweight and the UFC didn't.
He's probably contractually obligated to stay in SF just like every other fighter in any somewhat major organization is contractually obligated to stay in their respective league. Not sure of the context in all honesty, but that's what it sounds like to me.
Well you are possibly right. It is possible that maybe after his contract is fullfilled he'll get a shot at the UFC. More than likely that's how it's going to be with most of the major fighters.
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