Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley

[DixieDestroyer]

Here's the full card for tomorrow's Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley in San Diego, CA.

Main Card

* Welterweight Championship bout: Nick Diaz (c) vs. Paul Daley
* Lightweight Championship bout: Gilbert Melendez (c) vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri
* Light Heavyweight bout: Gegard Mousasi vs. Keith Jardine
* Lightweight bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Lyle Beerbohm

Preliminary Card

* Featherweight bout: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Robert Peralta
* Heavyweight bout: Brett Albee vs. Virgil Zwicker
* Lightweight bout: Joe Duarte vs. Saad Awad
* Welterweight bout: Herman Terrado vs. AJ Matthews
* Featherweight bout: Rolando Perez vs. Edgar Cardenas
* Middleweight bout: Casey Ryan vs. Paul Song


Strikeforce : Diaz vs. Dailey

***The ol' Dixie outlaw will be pullin' for Diaz (vs. afrolete Dailey), Jardine & Beerbohm (vs. jap Aoki).

 

[Liverlips]

Got a decent stream if anyone is interested:

http://www.justin.tv/247wwe1234#/w/1062519168/5

 

[Liverlips]

Beerbohm got tapped. He had the edge when standing but Aoki is not the one to go to the ground with.

 

[Liverlips]

Jardine looking very good. Anyone's fight going into the final round.

 

[Liverlips]

Jardine wins! (OK - it was a draw but nobody was expecting Keith to hang with Gegard).

 

[hawkeye]

Terrible decision by the judges in the Jardine fight. I had Jardine winning the fight. He had round one 10-8 due to the point deduction and he won the third round.

 

[hawkeye]

Aoki is the third best submission fighter behind only Werdum and Nick Diaz.

 

[Liverlips]

Hawkeye - I actually agree with the draw. Keith did not have a proper training camp and got gassed the last round. Would love to see a rematch.

Glad to see Jardine back in the big leagues. He has the heart of a white man.

Also, Gegard might want to consider a move to 185. He is very small at 205 and was manhandled by both Jardine and Lawal.

 

[Liverlips]

Gee - what a surprise. Daley gets KO'd in the first round.

Those blacks are sure great athletes ...

 

[Liverlips]

Daley is 27-10. Yet he gets talked about like he is an elite fighter rather than a journeyman with a big punch.

No way he'd get these title shots if he didn't have black skin.

 

[hawkeye]

Yeah people were talking about how the fight was an early stoppage lol. Daily needed help getting up to his stool.

 

[Howard]

Proper score of Jardine/Mousasi was 29-27 Mousasi. Deaw was the robbery of the year so far.

 

[Howard]

Mousasi/Jardine should have been 29-27 Mousasi. Robbery of the year so far. That is an actual award given out every year by Sherdog.com.

 

[Liverlips]

Jardine won the first round and Mousasi had a point deduction so that was a 10-8 round. Gegard dominated the next two rounds and busted Jardine up but the fight was properly scored.

This was no robbery like Rampage-Machida.

 

[Howard]

First round should have been 9-9. The point deduction was bs to begin with, should have just been a warning. One of the judges gave Jardine the 2nd round! What do u say about that. That judge is a disgrace.

 

[Liverlips]

No, Jardine had 5 or 6 takedowns in the fight and about 3 in the first round. Keith got screwed with point deductions in the past and was on the wrong end of bad decisions himself.

As I told a friend, Mousasi won the fight but the draw was the right decision given the scoring system in MMA.

Also, Mousasi kept losing his mouth piece, giving Keith a few breathers at key moments.

They will likely rematch. Given Keith's chin and Gegard's inability to stop the takedown it will be anyone's fight.

 

[Howard]

Jardine's td's reulted in no damage to Mousasi. One judge gave Jardine the second round! Mousasi won the first 10-9 minus 1 point should have been scored 9-9.

 

[Howard]

Mousasi wins re-match.

 

[Liverlips]

Well, if you have that many takedowns it is going to reflect on the scorecard. And Keith was the aggressor so that is why everyone rightly had him up 10-8 in the first round (with the point deduction). Queen Mo got beat up from the ground by Mousasi yet they still gave the fight to him. Like it or not, takedowns make a big impact on judges.

Keith only had a few days to prep for that fight and he is much bigger than Gegard (who really should go down to 185). Could go either way but Mousasi needs to find a way to stop takedowns or he is doomed to beating scrubs like Sokoudju for the rest of his career.