Joe Riggs vs. Louis Taylor, women's tournament at Strikeforce Challengers in Phoenix Aug. 13
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Phoenix, Ariz. (July 8, 2010) - Phoenix native and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) star Joe "Diesel" Riggs will headline a stacked STRIKEFORCE Challengers event from Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Ariz., when he takes on knockout artist Louis Taylor at a catch weight of 182 pounds in the main event on Friday, Aug. 13, LIVE on SHOWTIME at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast).
The event, STRIKEFORCE's first in the state of Arizona, will also feature a four-woman single elimination welterweight (135 pound) tournament comprised of four female prospects to be announced soon.
The tournament will be completed over the course of the evening's fight card. The winner of the tournament will likely face the champion of the July 23 STRIKEFORCE Women's Welterweight Title fight between undefeated, defending champ Sarah Kaufman and challenger Roxanne Modafferi in Everett, Wash., LIVE on SHOWTIME.
A former super heavyweight who once competed at over 300 pounds, the 27-year-old Riggs (32-12) is now a dangerous threat in multiple STRIKEFORCE divisions. He holds the rare distinction of having competed at heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, and welterweight during the course of his eight-year career.
A former UFC star, Riggs holds notable victories over STRIKEFORCE Welterweight champ Nick Diaz, Kendall Grove, Chris Lytle and "The N.Y. Badass" Phil Baroni. He is coming off a controversial unanimous decision loss to streaking, former world champ Jay Hieron at STRIKEFORCE: Miami on Jan. 30, 2010.
Prior to the loss to Hieron, the 6-foot Riggs tallied up four consecutive wins including an impressive unanimous decision victory over Baroni at STRIKEFORCE: Lawler vs. Shields on June 6, 2010 in St. Louis, Mo.
Taylor (6-1), of Chicago, has rattled off two consecutive knockout wins since his first career loss to Nate Moore on the undercard of the STRIKEFORCE and M-1 GLOBAL: Fedor vs. Rogers event in Hoffman Estates, Ill. on Nov. 7, 2009.
The 5-foot-11 Taylor has scored knockouts in four of his six consecutive victories and has only gone to the judges scorecards once in his professional career.
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id like to see riggs come back...always liked the dude..like to see him put together a winstreak and be relevant again
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its about time a good mma show comes to my home state..
it aint brock lesnar vs cain velasquez but ill take it
Joe Riggs vs. Louis Taylor, women’s tournament at Strikeforce Challengers in Phoenix Aug. 13
joe riggs in the women’s tournament? FINALLY, i think he might be able to string some wins together
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so the 2 winning women will compete again that same night to win the tourney?
I don’t have any problems with it. I just thought same night, multiple competing wasn’t legal in the USA?
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by daniel worby on Jul 9, 2010 8:47 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
It isn't so this means that either
1. It’s in a state without a commission (but am pretty sure it’s legalized in AZ)
2. Single elimination not single night elimination. So it’s over two events.
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by NNR (formerly NameNotRequired) on Jul 9, 2010 9:00 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
mania: "he tournament will be completed over the course of the evening's fight card. The winner of the tournament will likely face the champion of the July 23 STRIKEFORCE Women's Welterweight Title fight "
^^That’s the part that led me to believe it was all one night for the 4 competing^^
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1 Brock Lesnar
2 BJ Penn
3 John Fitch
4 Matt Hughes
5 Matt Serra
by daniel worby on Jul 9, 2010 9:09 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
*The. Not he.
Brock Lesnar is the #1 P4P fighter in the world. My top 5 P4P list is.
1 Brock Lesnar
2 BJ Penn
3 John Fitch
4 Matt Hughes
5 Matt Serra
by daniel worby on Jul 9, 2010 9:12 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yeah, that reads 2 fights in the same night.
Hasn’t Bellator done tournys where you fight more than once that same day? I could swear I’ve seen it before. Maybe I was watching something from Japan?
Not sure who Taylor is
But that headline made i sound like Riggs is fighting woman now.
ok that headline confused me...
I was like WTF!? Joe Riggs has fallen so far he’s entered a woman’s tourney?!?!
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