Strikeforce Event Ends With a Brawl

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Posted April 17th, 2010 at 9:47 pm

At the conclusion of the Strikeforce event on Saturday night, Jason “Mayhem” Miller entered the cage during the post-match interview being conducted with a victorious Jake Shields. After walking up to the mic, interrupting, and asking for a rematch all hell broke loose. You can check out a video of the brawl after the break along with thoughts on what this could mean for the promotion and EA Sports MMA.

An incident like this not only threatens the promotion’s viability and overall credibility, but could even risk the current deal with CBS. In doing so the marketing tie-in that EA has with Strikeforce loses significant value. Dana White quickly posted a message after the melee that succinctly expressed his feelings in the form of a smiley face.

General reaction to the actual card seems to be mixed with a slant towards the negative, with some feeling the fights were at least good on a technical level while many others have expressed that they were just flat out boring. The big names which came into Strikeforce heavily promoted like Dan Henderson and Gegard Mousasi went down, and Jake Shields who was impressive in defeating Henderson is a threat to depart for the UFC. At least by defeating Mousasi the up-and-comer Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal extended his undefeated record in winning the light heavyweight title.

My initial thought after the brawl was of how this incident makes the promotion look very second-rate. Obviously that is what Dana White was happy about and is the general sentiment streaming in on places like Twitter. At the same time I wondered if this attention could actually give Strikeforce a boost, right now outside of hardcore MMA fans it has very low awareness. This will shine some light on it, with a very WWE-style conclusion to the evening, but in the end I can’t see it being a good thing regardless for the long term viability of the promotion.

Quite simply this was not a good night for Strikeforce. The level of association gamers have between Strikefore and EA Sports right now is probably inconsequential, but the potential to build on that over the next 6-8 months until the game is released may be taking a hit. How that could ultimately affect EA Sports MMA remains to be seen, but this is not the type of attention that will build a following with Strikeforce that would then ultimately carry over to awareness and sales of the video game.

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  • gregg

    Strikeforce is a joke…

  • TMO

    this will probably get SF in the news at least. thats more than they could say most of the time lol

  • http://twitter.com/MarkG31 Mark Gambacorto

    This was a marketing thing IMO. Here is why I think that. Mayhem was escorted in the ring. He was laughing the whole time. The “brawl” ensued and Mayhem had a few MMA fighters including Gilbert, and the Diaz brothers kicking/punching. He came out unscratched. This is a ploy to get in the news along with UFC to pick up new fans. Current fans think this is a joke but will still watch Strikeforce. Imagine the testosterone filled teen seeing a guy get jumped going “WOW!! That's awesome man whens the next event?” hoping for a repeat.

    They also wanted to compete with the Silva news about UFC. It's all everyone has talked about even though this event was coming up. Anderson this, Anderson that. Now Strikeforce will be the talk of MMA for a bit and might even overtake the WEC event with word of mouth.

  • http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

    I'm not surprised to see this theory out there either…

  • howiye

    made a disapointing fight worth watchin…diaz layin the kicks in

  • http://twitter.com/MarkG31 Mark Gambacorto

    The biggest problem I see with this being legit (it may actually be) is editing the west coast version. If they truly thought it was a disgrace they could of removed it. Sure people may see it online but not as many as a national broadcast.

  • shotTreg1

    strikeforce is crap. walking in with girls. three judges decisions, and an out of control brawl. If it were ppv i would be pissed off. F- strikeforce

  • Hrithmus

    They could of cut away and never showed this. But they didn't. They knew bringing Mayhem up in the ring would start something. Jake and Mayhem hate each other. Someone knew this would happen.

  • PastaPadre going DOWNHILL

    Could of sworn this is a VIDEO GAME FORUM

  • heisman988

    actually jackass pasta covers more than just videogames if you read the article and site more……and this incident has some sort of PR impact, though minimal, on the EA MMA game, since SF is featured in it.

  • vegastwan

    best thing that happend all night.. most exciting

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dylan-Favorite/593488563 Dylan Favorite

    The brawl aside, this was one of the worst cards I have ever seen put on. Three very boring fights…

  • tunes522

    well…looks like the white trash and hillbillies have another sport to watch besides NASCAR…

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  • big jerm

    fake,fake fake,fake!

  • Carlos

    lol the only action that happened all night, what was up with gegard mousasi… shows he was fighting nobodies..and what was REALLY UP with the gameplay footage of EA MMA… those ugly looking punches were JUST TURR-IBLE, my only Charles Barkley reference lol.

  • GoMadden

    If this was staged, then Strikeforce is dumb beyond belief, and just going the same route EliteXC did. Didn't CBS learn anything from EliteXC? Like, oh I don't know, don't try to make a mockery out of the sport by not being truthful in their broadcasts? (like making a big deal about how great Kimbo Slice is, etc, calling his loss the GREATEST UPSET IN MMA HISTORY LOL).

    MMA can easily become the most popular sport in the U.S., and the world, if these cable networks would start broadcasting MMA matches, and stop trying to fabricate drama. I hope for Strikeforce and CBS' sake that it wasn't staged.

  • GoMadden

    Carlos, did you even look at the stats from the Mousasi fight after it ended?

    He absolutely dominated Lawal on the stats sheet, in pretty much every area except takedowns I believe. He just didn't do enough to win the fight. He needed to be more active when Lawal was tired, and never got around to doing it for whatever reason.

  • Derik

    Not really.

  • icecoldmma

    I'm not buying it. Hendo wasn't trying, He came out in true Hendo fashion throwing punchesand then like it was written he layed down and pretended to defend himself. It looked more like a training fight more than a title defense. Go back and watch Hendo as he lays there and just lets Jake climb on top of him into a full mount position. When has Hendo ever just let anyone get a full mount that easily? Sorry Shields fans but I've given Strikeforce too much of my time. The fighters are amatuerish and the main events are unimpressive.

    Dana White was interviewed recently on his thoughts on this match up. He said this was a stupid match up and that strikeforce was trying to devalue shields for his upcoming contract. So the question is Was Hendo doing a favor for Shields to give him more value on his contract or was he trying to bring credibility to Strikeforce? Either way I'm sure there will be plenty of people that will disagree with me and to themm I say go back and look at the fight again. Watch as jake sits on top of Dan and at several times sits with his hands on his hips , his punches did no damage at all “i.e. the end of the fight Dan stood up and walked away as if he were in a gym sparring” and watch as Dan lays there not moving his legs and when he wanted to get Jake off of him he wiggled out and got out.

    Whatever the deal whether Hendo did this or Strikeforce had a hand in it this was a fixed fight. Sorry SF fans and Shields fans something smells fishy. Jake is not in the same league.

  • effmadden

    who the fk takes strikeforce or mma alone that seriously. bunch of bar fighters masquerading as legitimate athletes. get mad

  • killakrok

    I agree completely. It reminded me of that fake ass Kimbo-Thompson fight where it looked like Thompson threw the fight for Kimbo to win. Henderson CLEARLY had the fight won, then just stopped doing anything. When Shields grabbed his legs, instead of pushing him back and getting on top of him like any human being would, he just sat down and got mounted.

  • http://www.facebook.com/a.j.gadberry Anthony A.J. Gadberry

    lol this looks like some shit WWF would pull smh

  • killakrok

    that's exactly what I was thinking.

  • LDUthecoach

    Somewhere, wherever he may be… Dana White is laughing, and when I say that, I mean his abs are probably starting to hurt. Yeah, ‘any publicity is good publicity’ but having this happen on CBS national television was a complete mockery of StrikeForce and will just allow the UFC to excel even more… if you missed the fight, check it out at http://www.lionsdenu.com/mma-strikeforce-post-f…
    Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if Dan Henderson comes back to the UFC after that joke

  • Glade

    I agree, If you watch the video Miller is at the bottom of the pile getting kicked by someone who is putting little to no effort into his kicks. These are trained fighters, if they want to kick someone with shoes on while they are down there will be damage.

  • Carlos

    lol he did outstrike him but didn't do anything, even in the standup he just stood around and got taken down, he'd hack away but then just lay there and breathe. sloppy fight but he definitely didn't do ANYTHING.

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  • Th3 FuTure

    Hahaha i wouldnt be surprised if Coker convinced Miller to get in there and provoke Sheilds knowing he is probably going to the UFC that way he has a motive to stay in Strikeforce because of Miller, Dana White has every reason to smile. That card last night was obnoxiously boring and Hendo had Shields in the same spot he had Bisping in and couldnt get the job done.

  • mgee222

    Na this makes them look really bad. It doesn't make MMA look good to the casual person. It gives off the idea that MMA is just a bunch of barbarians trying to kill each other with no rules. The person that said Strikeforce is a joke is kind of right by the way. Brett Rogers is getting a title shot coming off a loss. How can anyone complain about Lesnar getting one when he was 1-1 if Rogers gets one off a loss. They hyped Henderson to no end and he got dominated 4 out of 5 rounds by a guy who isn''t fighting in his proper weight class. If Fedor loses or doesn't fight by July then Strikeforce is finished. All of their big guys have lost. Mousassi, Hendo, Aoki. What if King MO loses in Dream. Theyre scrwed

  • mgee222

    Also the announcer saying “Sometimes this happens in MMA” is just really shitty of them if it was staged. Sometimes this happens in MMA? No. The worst you'll ever see in the UFC is what Lesnar said. Fighters would be cut if that happened in the UFC

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