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Scott Coker: Overeem's Title WILL NOT BE On The Line In The Tournament!!!!!!!

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#1 ·
While the buzz surrounding Strikeforce's recently announced heavyweight grand prix has been immense, understanding of the specifics of the tourney has been a bit less than ideal.

Today, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker clarified many of the questions that needed to be addressed.

First up, Alistair Overeem's title will not be on the line in the tournament. And while there were some suggestions that every fight in the tournament would be contested as five-round affairs, instead, that will only happen in the grand prix finals, when a newly created Strikeforce heavyweight grand prix title will be on the line.

"All quarterfinal and semifinal matches will be scheduled for three, five-minute rounds," Coker said. "The tournament final will be five, five-minute rounds for the Strikeforce world grand prix championship."

With the heavyweight grand prix set up as an eight-man, multi-night, single-elimination tournament, draws could prove problematic along the way. In order to address that, Coker said a fourth judge will be on hand in each fight to determine which fighter will advance from the tie.

"If any fight results in a draw, an independent fourth judge will determine who advances or who wins based on the fighter's overall performance in the fight," Coker said. "We will have a fourth judge on hand scoring the fight independently of the three that we normally have."

The final question mark in terms of tournament format involved potential injuries to the eight competitors. If a winner were to suffer a serious issue, who would continue on in the bracket.

"If a fighter qualifies to advance in the tournament but for any reason can not advance, we're forming a five-person tournament-review committee who will select a fighter to advance in his place," Coker said. "This fighter will be chosen from a pool of fighters that will include the previous opponent and the winners of reserve matches."

Coker said the tournament-review committee will be headed by Strikeforce rules director Cory Schafer.

While the final regulations for the tournament represent a small shift from the ruleset originally expected to oversee the ambitious grand prix, Coker said the ultimate goal was simplicity.

"In this tournament, everybody has to climb the same mountain," Coker said. "To make it simple, just like they do in Japan, ... the tournament champion will stand on his own. We'll have our heavyweight champion and a tournament champion."
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Totally unexpected!!!

Didn't see that coming!!!

That's a BIG LOL!!!

Overeem's title is not on the line! AGAIN!

I don't even care. At least we will have some great fights!!!
 
#99 ·
Totally un-needed tournement.

Would rather Werdum and Overeem fight for the title right now. Winner of Fedor/Silva gets next shot. They are already doing these fights...why do they have to be in a tournement? They have perfect fights lined up? Why wait on the title?

Makes little sense to even run a tourney. The fights would all be fine on cards. They have a legit #1 contender.
 
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#102 ·
None of these guys are making it out of the second with Overeem anyways but this is still stupid as hell. How does it even matter that Overeem's fights would have championship rounds? It isn't a real tournament. He isn't fighting more than once a night so the other fighters don't gain an advantage.

Why does strikeforce even have titles? They are rarely defended and even when they are it is usually against someone who hasn't done anything to deserve a shot.
 
#103 ·
They have to have a belt because it looks good as part of Overeem collection, look at see for yourself.



Hey I wonder it they make another Belt for the GP Champ that would be cool, I sure I heard somewhere, probably somewhere in this threat they they are doing, and lets face it for at least a year that belt will hold more credibility than any other in MMA right now, they will have to repeat this event tho to maintain it status.
 
#106 · (Edited)
I agree. Overeem will be simply fighting #1 contender. The fight between Fedor and Bigfoot will determine #2 contender. Everyone on the right side is too far in the rankings for fighting the guys from the left side. So the entire side will reveal the best one from the worst and hence the contender #3. Sounds more like intelligent marketing move from SF to get more attention (and a successful one), especially when you take into consideration the fact that Overeem's title was initially expected to be on the line in every single 5-round fight. Later, this idea was dropped, so that the tournament would become more believable when in reality it's just revelation of one-year plan. The champion fighting #1 contenders throughout this year while the others trying to earn this #1 contender status. Structure is very simple, everything else is a beautiful veil.
 
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