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Royce put the UFC on the map.
Ok...so the name Shamrock was still a household name in mma at this time.
Ken surely was the better known guy between them, just because of his old UFC past and his WWF run...Frank once tried his hands on a horrible martial arts movie, that is bad bad bad...i think Randy is in there, Dan...it was something with:
"..of the.." (...somebody got me help out there...)
Whatever...
In 2006 Strikeforce held their very first own MMA Event which was also the very first (regulated) MMA Event in California.
The Main Event was...
Frank Shamrock vs Ceasar Gracie....Ceasar got decked inside 0:22 into the very 1st round.
Cung Le was also on this card, making his MMA debut, winning by KO in the 1st round...
Shamrock was coming back from another layoff, in this case he had fought Sinosic at a K1 Event which was 3 years ago!
And before that he had a 1 year or so layoff after the Tito fight) when he wanted to come back he was in contact with Scott Coker and they went together.
Cung Le was fighting out of San Jose, California.
So was Frank Shamrock...
Actually, both were fighting out AKA.
And Frank is the 1st UFC Champ from AKA, if im correct.
Shamrock did headline all of his Strikeforce fights, which were 4 between 06-09..
Cung's first Main Event fight was against against none other than Shamrock himself.
But he fought on 5 other Main Cards before and Cung was fucking over!!!!
Making his debut at the very 1st Srikeforce MMA and ran a train on the other guys
He crushed Frank and his arm, Main Evented the next Card against Scott Smith and got finished by Smith via crushing punches in the 3rd round after winning every other second before...in dominant fashion.
Revenged it one Fight later...by some crazy spinning kick on Scotts liver...
In 2008 Strikeforce got its first show on cable...HDNet
Same year they got a deal with NBC
A year later they bought EliteXC and got the EliteXC Deal with Showtime...
Both guys were in fun fights (Frank in the Main Event) at this time and Cung was putting on massive highlights and both guys were there from the beginning.
Good houses and the crowd was wild when they fought...
...so who put Strikeforce on the map?
Le?
Shamrock?
A California based organization featuring 2 guys fighting out of California
...who else was there?
maybe Melendez?...
He was on the first shows and had a couple of fights in Japan, before and between...
Josh Thompson?...who was crazy good at this time
All of them fought at the first Event and all of them were all over the place at like...lets say..the first 10 Events
Both guys were in an outstanding back and forth fight series with each other, watch it,
and were trading the belt back and forth
Never forget about Diaz...but he was with EliteXC at this time...
Ok...so the name Shamrock was still a household name in mma at this time.
Ken surely was the better known guy between them, just because of his old UFC past and his WWF run...Frank once tried his hands on a horrible martial arts movie, that is bad bad bad...i think Randy is in there, Dan...it was something with:
"..of the.." (...somebody got me help out there...)
Whatever...
In 2006 Strikeforce held their very first own MMA Event which was also the very first (regulated) MMA Event in California.
The Main Event was...
Frank Shamrock vs Ceasar Gracie....Ceasar got decked inside 0:22 into the very 1st round.
Cung Le was also on this card, making his MMA debut, winning by KO in the 1st round...
Shamrock was coming back from another layoff, in this case he had fought Sinosic at a K1 Event which was 3 years ago!
And before that he had a 1 year or so layoff after the Tito fight) when he wanted to come back he was in contact with Scott Coker and they went together.
Cung Le was fighting out of San Jose, California.
So was Frank Shamrock...
Actually, both were fighting out AKA.
And Frank is the 1st UFC Champ from AKA, if im correct.
Shamrock did headline all of his Strikeforce fights, which were 4 between 06-09..
Cung's first Main Event fight was against against none other than Shamrock himself.
But he fought on 5 other Main Cards before and Cung was fucking over!!!!
Making his debut at the very 1st Srikeforce MMA and ran a train on the other guys
He crushed Frank and his arm, Main Evented the next Card against Scott Smith and got finished by Smith via crushing punches in the 3rd round after winning every other second before...in dominant fashion.
Revenged it one Fight later...by some crazy spinning kick on Scotts liver...
In 2008 Strikeforce got its first show on cable...HDNet
Same year they got a deal with NBC
A year later they bought EliteXC and got the EliteXC Deal with Showtime...
Both guys were in fun fights (Frank in the Main Event) at this time and Cung was putting on massive highlights and both guys were there from the beginning.
Good houses and the crowd was wild when they fought...
...so who put Strikeforce on the map?
Le?
Shamrock?
A California based organization featuring 2 guys fighting out of California
...who else was there?
maybe Melendez?...
He was on the first shows and had a couple of fights in Japan, before and between...
Josh Thompson?...who was crazy good at this time
All of them fought at the first Event and all of them were all over the place at like...lets say..the first 10 Events
Both guys were in an outstanding back and forth fight series with each other, watch it,
and were trading the belt back and forth
Never forget about Diaz...but he was with EliteXC at this time...
