Strikeforce – Fedor Vs Rogers Results

With Strikeforce’s first CBS outing now over its time for us to bring you the results from the Strikeforce – Fedor Vs Rogers.  It was a night of great MMA action that broke new ground in so many ways, and Strikeforce just continue to impress with their line up of MMA cards which are stacked top to bottom with great fights, and with their feeder show the Strikeforce Challenger series getting new names and up an comers out there too the future looks good for the San Jose based outfit.

Fedors Vs Rogers lived up to expectation with Rogers showing that punching power by landing one straight on Fedor busting his nose up and forcing the Russian to act fast right from the start of the fight.  By the end of round one, Fedor had tossed Rogers like a rag doll hit him with flurries and also been mounted himself in a action packed round.  In round two we saw Fedor come in looking for the finish and while Rogers showed improved wrestling and grappling skills, it would be a sweet right hand punch from Fedor that would land directly on Rogers chin putting him down hard with Fedor jumping in to finish the fight.  Fedor walks away with the victory but Rogers showed some skills and hasn’t really lost any value in this fight.

For the Strikeforce middleweight title fight, Jake Shield squared off against Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller in a battle which saw Shields win a decision victory with a very dull smothering tactic and a serious lack of any quality ground and pound punches. There were submission attempts a plenty from both sides, but it was only Miller who ever got close to finishing the fight when he had a sunk in rear naked choke on Shields at the end of round three, Shields would have had to tap but was saved by the bell by a matter of seconds.

Mousasi and Sokoudjou only went two round with Mousasi proving too much with his grappling, striking and all round calmness getting him a TKO victory early in the second round, and just cementing the fact that Mousasi is the real deal at 205lbs.

In the Heavyweight division the first fight of the evening saw Antonio Silva and Fabricio Verdum go head to head in a clash of the Brazilians.  A few things were shocking in this fight, firstly Verdum throwing kicks that looked good, and the fight went the decision after an early flurry in round one looked like it might have been stopped in Silva’s favour.  In the end the decision went to Verdum, in a very close fought battle.

Overall Strikeforce – Fedor Vs Rogers was a great card, one of the best in recent times and a resounding success for Strikeforce!  Hopefully this will be the first of many, and if the ratings are good, then Strikeforce should be able to move forward and bring in more up and coming talent and put on more events that hopefully match up to the quality we saw last night.

Main Card

Fedor Emelianenko Vs Brett Rogers – Fedor Emelianenko wins by second round TKO
Jake Shields Vs Jason Miller – Jake Shields wins by unanimous decision
Gegard Mousasi Vs Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou – Gegard Mousasi wins by second round TKO
Fabricio Werdum Vs Antonio Silva – Fabricio Verdum wins by unanimous decision

Preliminary Card

Marloes Coenen Vs Roxanne Modafferi – Marloes Coenen wins by first round submission (armbar)
Jeff Curran Vs Dustin Neace – Jeff Curran wins by first round submission (injury)
John Kolosci Vs Shamar Bailey – Shamar Bailey wins by unanimous decision
Louis Taylor Vs Nate Moore – Nate Moore wins by second round submission (strikes)
Christian Uflacker Vs Jonatas Novaes – Christian Uflacker wins by unanimous decision