Both Jake Shields and Gegard Mousasi will be free agents after Strikeforce's CBS Show--Say What?
by Zak Woods on Mar 19, 2010 11:30 AM EDT
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Strikeforce has a lot riding on their April show and the news that both Gegard Mousasi and Jake Shields (both champions) will be free agents after the CBS show. For Strikeforce there is only one way to describe this, "Yikes!". Mousasi and Shields represent two of their most talented fighters and legitimate top-ten presence within their respective divisions.
Shields and Mousasi are both taking different approaches to their impending free agency.
Jake Shields told MMA Junkie that he wants to keep his options open and that makes sense. Strikeforce's middleweight champion is much better suited at 170lbs. and the UFC has that division almost completely locked down and Shields won't fight his teammate Nick Diaz. Thus a possible move to the Octagon would make sense for him though if Jake loses in unimpressive fashion to Dan Henderson then Zuffa may think twice about offering him a lot of money, despite desperately needing challengers for Georges St. Pierre (assuming Dan Hardy isn't using a vodoo doll next weekend).
Where Jake wants to keep his options open Mousasi told MMA Junkie that he is hoping to finalize a long term deal with Strikeforce.
That news will certainly cause some MMA fans to go...
A lot of North American fans were hoping that Mousasi's change of representation, away from M-1, was a sign of a possible deviation from Strikeforce. But even if Gegard doesn't re-sign with Strikeforce after the April show that doesn't mean he will signing with Zuffa anytime soon as Mousasi is scheduled to fight at DREAM.15 in May.
For better or worse Mousasi does value the freedom of being able to fight in Japan.
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I gotta agree with Luke
After Mo and Hendo at LHW and a potential money match down at 185 with Nick I don’t see anything there for Mousassi. Oh well.
WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING MOUSASI CAN/WILL FIGHT AT 185?
he himself has said he can’t make the cut anymore, and will eventually fight at HW.
“I’m planning to fight (at) 205 for two or three years, get a little bit older, put on some muscle,” Mousasi said. Eventually, though, the Red Devil Sport Club fighter wants to move up yet again. “Eventually, I will go to heavyweight but not right now”
"They [DREAM] wanted me to defend my belt one more time, but going from 216 to 185, it’s not possible for me anymore," he says. "I have to move up."
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"It’s going to be like sex with a grizzly bear, you know, a lot of scratching and growling on both sides." - Don Frye
I read somewhere else that he’s interested in signing a 7-fight deal. What the fuck for? I don’t see how long contracts benefit the fighter in the first place, cause the promotion can always cut you if you lose so it doesn’t really provide job security, and if you’re winning like crazy then odds are by 7 fights down the road you’re not getting paid what you should be (unless you’re on a sliding pay scale). And second, exactly who is he supposed to fight after King Mo and Henderson?
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