UFC Announces List of Fighters Moving from Strikeforce to UFC
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 01.16.2013
Daniel Cormier, Gilbert Melendez, Nate Marquardt and more...
The UFC has revealed a big list of Strikeforce fighters moving over to the UFC. The list was announced on FUEL's UFC Tonight. Several of these names were already more or less confirmed, but this makes it official. Included in the list are Daniel Cormier, Gilbert Melendez, Luke Rockhold, Tarec Saffiedine, and Nate Marquardt, as well as Gegard Mousasi, Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza and Tim Kennedy.
Among those not yet announced as moving over are Josh Barnett, Dion Staring, Mike Kyle and Jorge Gurgel. More announcements may be forthcoming. The full list as announced is below:
Daniel Cormier
Gegard Mousasi
Gian Villante
Roger Gracie
Tim Kennedy
Lorenz Larkin
Luke Rockhold
Ronaldo Souza
Roger Bowling
Jason High
Nate Marquardt
Tarec Saffiedine
Bobby Voelker
Ryan Couture
Pat Healy
Kurt Holobaugh
Adriano Martins
Gilbert Melendez
K.J. Noons
Josh Thomson
And here are some of the more notable guys whose fates are up in the air
Josh Barnett
Ovince St. Preux
Rafael Cavalcante
Keith Jardine
Jorge Santiago
Billy Evangelista
Jorge Masvidal
I sort of expected the UFC to take a while to grab Barnett but I am very shocked that have not looked into the following:
Carlos Inocente
OSP
Feijao
Adlan Amagov
Yancy Medeiros
Chris Sprang
Kazuo Misaki
Jorge Santiago (he has looked good since going to WW)
Jorge Masvidal
Estevan Payan
YES YES YES Finally we get to see Tim Kennedy come over and get the ass whooping he deserves!
His unrelenting and boring bashing and calling out of every single UFC middleweight for the last 2 years is sure to earn him a good few beatings and i will be front row with a huge smile on my face! Just becasue you're a war vet doesn't mean you can be a friggin asshole and get away with it! RANT OVER!
Doesn't the UFC already havde Brian Stann? Why sign the cheap knock off?
Joking aside its a decent list that I am just surprised OSP, Masdival and Fejao didn't make but Calvacante likely will get signed once he is cleared to fight.
Feijao, Masvidal and Santiago need to be in the UFC. It was BS Santiago got cut to begin with especially since he was dropping to WW and it seems like every other fighter was given a free pass when dropping down in weight.
You guys were annoyed that they had too many cards before?
Can't wait to see how this moves the UFC forward. Hopefully One FC or SFL takes off with Strikeforce gone. Bellator is still there, but it'd be cool to have another one pop up now to reaplace the one which has fallen.
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