Nick Dias Vs Frank Shamrock - Confirmado!

[UrubuThai 0]

Three-time world champion and mixed martial arts legend, Frank Shamrock (24-9-1), will make his dramatic return to the cage when he squares off with fellow knockout artist Nick Diaz (18-7, 1 NC) in the main event of Strikeforce’s first MMA event of the year at San Jose, California’s HP Pavilion on Saturday, April 11.

The event represents the dawn of a new age for Strikeforce as it will be the first event under its new television agreement with premium television network SHOWTIME. The live telecast will feature up to five fights including the Shamrock-Diaz main event beginning live at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).

The matchup, which will be contested at a catch weight of 179 lbs, is an opportunity for the hard-punching Diaz to avenge a devastating, 21-second knockout that his trainer, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master Cesar Gracie, suffered at the hands of Shamrock in the main event of Strikeforce’s historic MMA debut event at HP Pavilion on March 10, 2006.

Also on the fight card, middleweight (185-pound limit) sluggers Scott “Hands of Steel†Smith (16-5, 1 NC) and Benji “Razor†Radach (19-4) will battle each other in a featured contest.

“I’d be pretty pissed off if someone smashed my coach,†said the 36-year-old Shamrock, who is regarded by many as the father of modern day MMA. “Diaz is going to be carrying the pride of his school with him, but a fight’s a fight. Someone’s getting smashed and it’s just not going to be me.â€

A San Jose, Calif. resident, Shamrock earned his lofty stature by bringing to the sport a polished, hybrid fighting style combining western boxing, kickboxing and submission wrestling in the mid-90’s when most MMA competitors’ skills were heavily concentrated in a single fight discipline. He was crowned the first UFC middleweight champion in history after stopping “The Huntington Beach Badboy†Tito Ortiz with an onslaught of strikes in what is regarded as one of the greatest MMA battles of all-time.

“I’m done breaking myself for entertainment,†Shamrock continued. “I’m just going to break everybody else and they’ll be entertained by that.â€

Diaz, a stone-faced 25-year-old Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt from Stockton, Calif., responded, “Frank and I have always lived in a 100 mile radius of each other. When I got into this (sport), the people around here were all about Frank Shamrock, so I turned around and walked the other way.â€

“I’ve crossed paths and trained with people who have also trained with Frank,†continued Diaz. “I know what they do, how they fight, and the way they act, so it’s great for me to get this fight while I’m still young. There’s a lot of things I can talk about, but I’m going to represent Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and I’m down for whatever’s going to happen in this fight.â€

Diaz is long known as one of MMA’s most rebellious characters with a short fuse and crowd-pleasing style. He exploded onto the national MMA scene when he stunned fellow rising star “Ruthless†Robbie Lawler with a right hook to the jaw that put Lawler flat on the canvas at UFC 47 on April 2, 2004.

Resumo: A notícia fala basicamente do retorno de Frank onde fará o evento principal da noite enfrentando Nick Dias, parace que fecharam com uma nova emissora de televisão americana , que irá transmitir o evento. Nick Dias espera vingar seu mestre de Jiu-Jitsu Cesar Gracie que foi nocauteado por Frank.

"Eu também estaria muito chateado se alguém tivesse quebrado o meu mestre " - Disse Shamrock

O card principal ainda conta com a presença de Scott Smith 16-5, 1 NC) Vs Benji "Razor" Radach (19-4).

Fonte: mmarated.com

Editado March 5, 2009 por UrubuThai

[Leocádio 0]

Essa notícia ta velhissima

[RamOn MMA 0]

Porra... muita diferença de peso! Vai ser até 83??

[Staffbull 0]

Porra... muita diferença de peso! Vai ser até 83??

>The matchup, which will be contested at a catch weight of 179 lbs< Até 80, peso alternativo.....

[SHAMROCK 0]

Porra....o frank com 80 kgs vai ficar so a capa da gaita

[O Predestinado 0]

Torcendo pelo duplo K.O.

[Convidado Diego Silveira]

Torcendo pelo duplo K.O.

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[He4v3n 0]

torcendo pelo diaz!

[andre nishimura 0]

nick diaz !!!!!

o frank é bom mais é muito muito marrentaooooo !!!!

entao nessa eu vo torcer por nick diaz !!

[Diego85 0]

luta desnecessária... rolava mais Shanrock x Baroni2, ou Shanrock x Jacaré, Diaz x Gomi2,

[ADAO.JULIANO 0]

Boa luta. Porém um luta com peso alternativo é foda.

Se a moda pega, poderiam arrumar um jeito por exemplo de Fedor e Anderson Silva se enfrentarem. hehe

[Gustavowww 0]

Torcendo pelo Frank.

[Convidado DANGER189]

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[mordor 0]

Diaz Brothers FTW !