guycanada

Below is a list of the Strikeforce current roster. I have excluded the female division.

Who do you think should be absorbed by the Ufc and who should look for work elsewhere?

Obviously the HW's, LHW's need some fresh blood, the MW's could still use a boost.

The WW's and LW's are the most stacked in both organizations but there are several fighters who could add some new match-ups to the middle of the division.

An idea to bring some of these lesser known fighters from Strikeforce with a decent record to be brought into the mainstream would be take 16 WW's and 16 LW's and make them have a "win and your-in" and then run a TUF-Strikeforce with 8 WW's and 8 LW's. Winner's get a new 6 fight contract.

Obviously the Marquardt's, Woodley's, Melendez'ssss, and such should just come over right away.

Heavyweights (265 lb, 120 kg): 3 fighters

Name Strikeforce record (MMA record)
Daniel Cormier (C) 7–0 (10–0)
Josh Barnett 2–1 (31–6)
Dion Staring 0–0 (28–7)

Light Heavyweights (205 lb, 93 kg): 9 fighters


Name Strikeforce record (MMA record)
Mike Kyle 3–3–1 (1) (19–8–1 (2 NC))
Ovince St. Preux 6–1 (12–5)
Rafael Cavalcante 4–2 (1) (11–3 (1) )
Gegard Mousasi 3–1–1 (32–3–2)
Gian Villante 3–2 (10–3)
TJ Cook 1–2 (12–5)
Virgil Zwicker 1–2 (10–3)
Guto Inocente 1–0 (6–0)
Yoel Romero 0–1 (4–1)


Middleweights (185 lb, 84 kg): 16 fighters


Name Strikeforce record (MMA record)
Luke Rockhold (C) 9–0 (10–1)
Robbie Lawler 3–5 (19–9 (1 NC) )
Ronaldo Souza 6–1 (16–3 (1 NC) )
Tim Kennedy 5–2 (14–4)
Lorenz Larkin 4–0 (1 NC) (13–0 (1 NC) )
Adlan Amagov 3–1 (10–2–1)
Derek Brunson 3–1 (9–2)
Roger Gracie 3–1 (5–1)
Lumumba Sayers 2–2 (6–3)
Anthony Smith 2–1 (17–8)
Trevor Smith 2–1 (10–2)
Keith Jardine 0–2–1 (17–11–2)
Keith Berry 0–3 (12–10)
Yancy Medeiros 2–0 (9–0)
Nate James 1–1 (13–8–1)
Benji Radach 0–2 (21–6 (1 NC) )


Welterweights (170 lb, 77 kg): 17 fighters


Name Strikeforce record (MMA record)
Tyron Woodley 8–1 (10–1)
Roger Bowling 4–3 (11–3)
Tarec Saffiedine 5–1 (13–3)
Bobby Voelker 4–1 (24–8)
Nah-Shon Burrell 3–1 (8–2)
Quinn Mulhern 3–1 (18–2)
Nate Moore 2–2 (8–3)
Jason High 3–0 (16–3)
Jordan Mein 2–1 (25–8)
Chris Spang 2–1 (5–1)
Tyler Stinson 1–2 (23–9)
Kazuo Misaki 2–0 (25–11–2 (1 NC) )
Jorge Santiago 2–0 (25–10)
Brian Melancon 1–1 (6–2)
Nate Marquardt (C) 1–0 (32–10–2)
Yuri Villefort 0–1 (6–1)
Ryan LaFlare 0–0 (6–0)


Lightweights (155 lb, 70 kg): 22 fighters


Name Strikeforce record (MMA record)
Josh Thomson 10–3 (19–5 (1 NC) )
Gilbert Melendez (C) 11–1 (21–2)
Billy Evangelista 7–2 (1 NC) (11–2 (1 NC) )
James Terry 6–4 (11–5)
Justin Wilcox 5–3 (1 NC) (11–5 (1 NC) )
Pat Healy 6–1 (28–16)
Ryan Couture 5–1 (5–1)
Caros Fodor 5–1 (7–2)
Jorge Masvidal 5–1 (23–7)
KJ Noons 3–3 (11–5)
Bobby Green 4–1 (19–5)
Matt Ricehouse 4–1 (6–1)
Jorge Gurgel 2–3 (14–8)
Conor Heun 1–3 (9–5)
Joe Duarte 2–1 (10–3)
Isaac Vallie-Flagg 2–0 (13–3–1)
Estevan Payan 1–0 (13–3 (1 NC) )
Mizuto Hirota 0–1 (14–5–1)
Chad Leonhardt 0–1 (9–3)
Michael Bravo 0–0 (7–3)
Adriano Martins 0–0 (23–6)

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TheLyotoLegion

Barnett, DC, Feijao, Mousasi, Rockhold, Jacare, Larkin, Kennedy, Gracie, Marquardt, Saffiedine, Woodley, Melendez, Healy, Thomson, Masvidal, Noons, Couture and Green. Would love to see Jardine back but he needs to retire.

But, most of all get Nate back in the UFC, St. Pierre/Condit vs. Nate is probably the fight I wanna see most after Machida/Hendo.

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guycanada

I would like to see Jordan Mein have an opportunity as well, but he would fall into a TUF situation,

GSP will avoid a fight with Nate

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Rauno

Why would he?

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Shady1

Because they both train together

Rauno

That explains it. I thought he'd be afraid of him or sth silly like that.

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Tiptup

So many fights I want to see. They should do a strikeforce invasion card.

I've wanted Rockhold v Weidman for ages.

Guy Incognito

Nate has said that he would fight GSP.

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TheLyotoLegion

Weidman would strangle him.

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jonnyg4508

This is a good list.

I'd take Couture and Green off though.