Report: Joe Riggs hospitalized, won't rematch Nick Diaz on Aug. 15 for Strikeforce

wow this PPV sucks now……there is no way im gunna buy this PPV just 2 see a women fight a man for 5 rounds

what ppv? its on showtime!

Its not a ppv its on showtime!!!!

BREAKING NEWS…Affliction Trilogy has been canceled according to MMAWeekly.

YES lmfao

They fought in a hospital once, they can do it again!

This is EXCELLENT FOCKING NEWS! Diaz should be in shape and ready to go, and now there is nothing holding him back from fighting Jorge Santiago at Affliction 3 next saturday! WHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Best news so far this week! There has been no talk about Diaz/Santiago because Diaz was an intrical part of the August strikeforce card, but strikeforce wont have anyone worthy for him to face, so I am going on RECORD, pREDICTING RIGHT NOW, that we will See Santiago/Diaz at Affliction 3! If it happens, this fight will be nothing short of AMAZING!!!!!

Fingers Crossed! Lets go Atencio, prove me to be a prophet once again!

I hope you’re right. But I’ll remain pessimistic just in case.

It’s done, Diaz vs Santiago – Belfort vs Fedor!!
I’m watching big brother right now and this was def the right time to backdoor Riggs to save the Affliction card!

Good focking call John. That would be just as good a match imo. Strikeforce and Affliction need to go out with a bang so that at least we will remember them fondly.

mahde~ strikeforce isnt going anywhere..

affliction?~ most likely, but i hope not.

john~ i think that match up is very possible as well as grim fighting werdum at the next strikeforce..

it seems like vitor will be fighting fedor

and i heard strikeforce wont let grim fight fedor cause they were in the middle of working something out so brett could fight werdum.

if those fights happen, both shows should still be decent..

personally?~ i want to see vitor fight santiago and grim to fight fedor. leaving nick without an opponent, but hopefully strikeforce can get ‘nacy boy noons’ to fight diaz..

bitch nancy boy noons walks around at about 175/180~

if he is in shape[which he should be] he could make 170 for aug/15..

i say keep the vitor/santiago fight!!

All week, while everyone has been complaining about Fedor vs. Vitor, I have been posting about how much Vitor scares me, as Fedor’s #1 cocksucker! Seems like I was right! Check out what Fedor had to say about Vitor fight:

You know, I’m being really honest here. I am equally interested in a fight with either Belfort or Rogers. I’ve never fought with either one. I used to watch Belfort fight, even before I started competing. So there is a history there for me with him. It is very interesting to me; he was a fighter who faced and beat a lot of the greatest fighters in MMA at the time. Rogers is a fighter who is tearing through the heavyweight division with 10 fights and 10 wins. And, I have to add, he beat Arlovski.

“To be honest, in terms of his speed at that weight, I honestly don’t know if being heavier is an advantage with a fighter who is as fast as him at his current weight. I have always found it harder to fight the lighter, faster guys, rather than the really big, plodding heavy and super heavyweights. And Belfort has always stood out in terms of his speed.”

THanks guys! Hope I am right! I just think Affliction needs to get NIck Diaz to face Jorge! It NEEDS TO HAPPEN!

Affliction did strikeforce a huge favor by shipping Arlovski over to fight for them TWICE, the last time, basically being a stepping stone for the young career of one of strikeforce’s few promising heavyweights (Grim). ko’ing Arlovski, ruined one of Afflictions major assets and simultaneously gave a big boost to strikeforce, with grim’s jump in the rankings!

TIME FOR STRIKEFORCE TO PAY AFFLICTION BACK FOR THE HUGE FAVOR AFFLICTION DID FOR THEM!!!!!

uFC 107 Rumors (December 13th):

Rampage vs. Rashad
Cheik Kongo vs. Frank Mir

kongo/mir.. not too bad.

i was hoping to see mir fight heath but this is a good matchup..

mir should beat kongo..

Rampage wins, and Kongo wins… fun thing about Belfort vs Fedor is that they’re at the same height or Belfort may even be a bit taller

If Mir can figure out how to get it to the ground, he’ll tie Kongo in knots. If Mir is still in love with his alleged striking abilities he will get KTFO.

he has about 10% shot at beating Kongo!

Interesting Kongo vs Mir. Mir fancies himself as a top striker nowadays, if he tries it on with Kongo it’ll be a short night for him. Mir’s TD’s suck big time but so does Kongo’s TD defence, so you’ve gotta beleve Mir can take him down. If that happens Kongo’s bang in trouble as the upturned turtle is no defence against Mir’s jits.

10% ~ really??

i agree with pw’s break down~ so that makes it 50/50 for me..

but i do believe mir can get him down for the sub..

Lol I know when he caught Brock with that knee it went straight to his head. I have a bad feeling about this fight but I will still be rooting for Mir by achilles lock.

btw I tried out the match up on fightnight and Mir KO’d Kongo, whooo! I am now predicting Mir by devestating uppercut, this game can’t be wrong!

yeah i don’t think he has what it takes to submit Kongo.. I’ve seen Kongo’s sub defense and it is better than u would think!..
Mir also gives up when someone’s hitting him in the face too hard which is what Kongo’s gonna do!

Get a clue! This is the beginning of Mir fulfilling my prophecy about him getting exposed and becoming irrelevant. Kongo is a tough guy to take down. It takes a great wrestler with strength to take Kongo down, and sorry…mir does not fit the description. KONGO VIA 1ST ROUND tko!!!!!!!!

i LOVE IT, THE BROCK FIGHT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END for the gREAT WHITE HYPE!!!!

Everything is going according to my script! lol

sorry but mir definitely doesnt ‘give up’ when hes getting hit in the face..

if he ever tapped due to strikes, but mir always rids out the beating and lets the ref stop it..

u wont see mir tapping from punches.~.

i do agree though~ kongo has improved his sub defense..

either way it should be a good one..

lol john~ ur hate for mir is getting stronger day by day~

surely u would give mir a decent chance at beating kongo?

Mir certainly “gives up” any semblance of mounting offence when he’s getting whacked in the face and seems to abandon all defence too and seems content to block punches with his face.

yes he does, all he does is covering up so that the ref “can” come in and stop it!..

yeah dood~ when u get punched in the face and it rocks u, defending yourself is easy right??

that is how a tko happens, understand?

the fact that mir doesnt tap due to strikes shows he is not afraid to get ko’d. meaning ‘giving up’ is the last thing running through his mind~

kdogg~ johng~ and rob~

the ’i hate frank mir club"!!

how do u get a membership??

I know bro, but if you have the will to fight on you do.. and if you wanna get out you get out!.. It’s a question about heart and his instinct!..
Like Eric Scafer and Gonzaga those are two dudes that doesn’t want to be in there when they receive a beating, they turn around and cover their head with two hands instead of trying to get out..

feel free to join the club after Mir loses to Kongo!

it sure looked like mir was covering up and waiting for the ref to stop pano cruz from all the elbows and punches…lol!!

or when brock was smashing his face in, it looked like he just wanted the ref to jump in..lol

u guys r nuts! mir is a tough sob that doesnt even know what quiting means..

i wouldn’t say i hate mir, but i have always thought he sucked. really mid level at best.

I wouldn’t describe mir as being tough. He just lies there and lets the ref come in, instead of trying to whether the storm by bettering his positon.

It was exactly the same when Ian Freeman was reigning down blows on him back at UFC 37 or whatever, his natural instinct is to just lie there and be rescued instead of fighting on at all costs.

I am DONE coming to this site for the week. Everytime I come here there is bad news followed by, well, more bad news. WTF!

I am not sure that Stikeforce will be so willing go give up Diaz to the Affliction card to face Santiago. I would love it, but don’t think its likely. Strikeforce seems to be wanting to keep thier August card in tact as much as possible and Diaz is a big draw for them. Strikeforce should be looking for an opponent for Diaz for their card instead of lending out thier best fighters for Affliction’s last event.

I agree that Riggs didnt’ deserve a fight against Diaz, but after the ‘hype’ I really wanted to see it go down. Curious as to what “DRUG” the diesel was on?

thank u roy. at least thats a realistic stand point..

these other nerds just seem to have a ‘hate on’ for the man..

i think the hate comes from the big nog lovers and the guys swinging from the brockness cockness..

dont get me wrong~ i am a fan of both mentioned above(huge nog fan), but i dont let fights influence my attitiude towards certain athlete’s talent..

Do you have paypal stinky??? The annual membership is $49.50, just pay me Rob or John and you’ll be a fully paid up member of the Frank Mir Haters Club!

i heard diesle od on some #4..

im done talking about mir~

what do u guys think about strikeforce keeping diaz and having him fight kj noons for a vacant title??

John, I emailed you back, get me that money!
stinky, we’ll be at ruth’s chris in philly around 7 pm on fri before 101, come join us.
Diaz/noons any body!

it would be good to get it over with but I like John’s idea Diaz/Santiago

hey john i agree with you and have since the start i think vitor would hurt fedor badly.. and rampage in an interview said ufc 107 is in memphis i’ll try and find it on you tube..

and guys kj will not fight at 170 no way no how, he wants nothing to do with diaz, he wants nothing to do with diaz at diaz’s natural weight.. they probably would give him like the goat or something, but i say diaz vs santiago belfort vs fedor werdum vs rogers

If it stays on the feet then advantage Belfort, but he might be slower than usual cause of the weight..

Maniacs,

Drop some knowledge on me.

What about Diaz/Shields, Diaz/Lawler 2?

Werdum/Fedor?

BTW- I don’t like Mir either but I admit that both he and Borck (obviously)impressed me more in their 2nd match than in the first fight. Both show alot of improvement. Mir is alot of things but he is not a pussy. No one who fights for a living is a pussy.

I refuse to believe that.

Diaz/ shields are 2 of only 3 or 4 BJJ black belts under caesar and train together. Lawler and diaz would be a good fight, but I think Diaz takes it again!

comments mania? whats going on today? maybe you’re writing that they have a guy to fight fedor!

Crickets chirping

Riggs isn’t a good enough opponent for Diaz, but I was still looking forward to this one, too. I’ll be back later guys, I have to hurl myself off a bridge.

;-)

Kevin: I gotta sneak on and off here from work. Call u when I get out of this corporate hell hole. I got a different number so answer a 267 area code #!

Stinky: I dont hate Mir, I just dont think he is a very good mixed martial artist. He is a 1 dimensional ju jitsu fighter, and I have really no idea how good his jits is since he wont compete in ADCC, and he wont go to the ground against anyone worth a damn….He has a great shot at beating Kongo, if the fight hits the ground. I dont think Mir can get the fight to the ground, so I give him very little chance…but if they do get to the floor, Kongo is done. I hate Mir, but I keep it real!

Gutted about Affliction, makes the loss of Diaz-Riggs even worse. This was going to be an easy win for Nick and a chance to become a champion as well as avenge an embarrassing defeat, Riggs is a joke and like VM I want to know what this “drug” was. Hopefully Nick will have a quality opponent lined up as he has been the star of the new look Strikeforce and the card won’t be the same without him. Awful week for MMA, don’t know how it can get any worse.

I’m a proud member of the I hate Frank Mir club and running for chairmanship of the I hate Cheick Kongo club, seriously both of them are arrogant, overrated and one dimensional, either Kongo destroys Mir standing or Mir submits Kongo as soon as it hits the ground, neither man will ever be a UFC HW champion again (unless the division goes back to the days when Sylvia and Monson were at the top). I’ll be happy to see either man lose, then laugh when they both lose their next fights. Either Mir is getting KO’d or Kongo is getting an arm snapped Sylvia style, win-win for me.

i’m not on acid or something, ’’i’m on a boat’’. j/k, LOL. youtube vid pissed me off cause it had nothing to do with mma. stop spamming Dragon.

Hahaha, “I’m on a boat” could be an excuse for any fucked up frame of mind. lol.

lol, why does everything has to be about MMA?

have to be about… sorry

realmma relax dude, this was a depressing subject so I was just trying to spread a little cheer :D

“F*ck trees, I climb beuys motherf*cker!!!” lmfao!!

Who the FUCK is Draogn? Not another one! Dragon, your seed is so fertile!

Lol That was my bad Koba!!! I got it right now.

Koba, it’s not Dragon’s fault he misspelled his name, he was too busy spreading cheer.

Yeah, Fagon.

Damn man.. Floor seats, nice!! Im in section 102 so still not a bad area. dead middle of the arena lil bit elevated. I wanna get a pregame thing going in the parking lot of the Eagles. k20-k22. Help the cause!!!

The difference is that UFC has enough talent to easily replace injured fighters with someone just as good. You still get a good fight, and the only people disappointed are the ones who really wanted to to see the injured fighter.

agreed…the depth of the UFC is what makes it the premier org…often times fights get BETTER due to injuries…

do we care ?

hells no. Make them fight, as someone said before me. They are fighters not humans.

Shields-Diaz would be an awesome fight but it’s never going to happen and even by some miracle it does there is no way that it should be a last minute addition, as it is easily a main event caliber fight for SF.