Strikeforce St.Louis Heavy Artillery Picks

May 15th, 2010 admin

Strikeforce St. Louis: Heavy Artillery

Date: May 15, 2010

Location: St. Louis, Mo.
Venue: Scottrade Center
Broadcast: Showtime

MAIN CARD

  • Champ Alistair Overeem vs. Brett Rogers (for heavyweight title)
  • Andrei Arlovski vs. Antonio Silva
  • Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. Joey Villasenor
  • Roger Gracie vs. Kevin Randleman
  • Antwain Britt vs. Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired)

  • Justin DeMoney vs. Jesse Finney
  • Lyle Beerbohm vs. Vitor Ribeiro
  • Darryl Cobb vs. Booker DeRousse
  • Mike Chandler vs. Sal Woods
  • Lee Brousseau vs. Fransisco France
  • Tom Aaron vs. Erik Steenberg
  • Matt Ricehouse vs. Greg Wilson

Firstly a reminder to all Canadians that Stikeforce on Showtime is available to Rogers customers for free right now on SuperChannel.  There is currently a free promotion that is running for the next 2 months, so hopefully that will extend to next month’s Fedor fight as well.  You might have to call in to Rogers to get this activated.

This strikeforce event in St.Louis: Heavy Artillery will likely act as a redemption event.  After the chaos and disappointments of the previous CBS event, Scott Coker will need this to be a good fight night to put Strikeforce back into the good books for mma fans.  UFC is countering with a very impressive Fight Night Special for free on spiketv.  Spike TV presents a special telecast of 2010’s most action-packed mixed martial arts fights, including the heavyweight showdown between Shane Carwin and Frank Mir and the unforgettable slugfest between Leonard Garcia and Chan Sung Jung (aka “The Korean Zombie”)  in “UFC’s Ultimate Fights” on Saturday, May 15 (10:00 PM – 12:30 AM ET/7:00 PM – 10:30 PM PT).

Featured bouts include:

o    Shane Carwin vs. Frank Mir (UFC 111) in a battle for the interim UFC heavyweight crown
o    Leonard Garcia vs. “The Korean Zombie”, Chan Sung Jung (Aldo vs. Faber) in
“The greatest fight I’ve ever seen!” according to Joe Rogan
o    Mark Munoz vs. Kendall Grove (UFC 112) in a matchup of middleweight contenders that earned “Fight of the Night.”
o    Terry Etim vs. Rafael Dos Anjos (UFC 112) in a hard-fought contest between rising lightweights
o    Matt Serra vs Frank Trigg (UFC 109) in a match between two veterans.
o    Nate Diaz vs Rory Markham (UFC 111) in Diaz’ debut at welterweight
o    Paulo Thiago vs Mike Swick (UFC 109) in a fight that moved one man up the ladder of the welterweight division.

Onto  the Strikeforce Picks

Alistair Overeem has been untouchable the last few years, but he has also been ducking a lot of tough fighters.  Brett Rogers will be his toughest opponent since holding the belt, and I think the underdog Rogers will take home the belt tonight.  We really haven’t seen Overeem need to take a punch lately, and with the punching power of Rogers, its a strong possibility that Overeem will go down.

Glass jaw Arlovski will attempt to redeem himself with a tough match against Antonio Silva.  Andrei has played the giant killer role before in beating Tim Sylvia, but I don’t think he has much of a chance against Big Foot here. Plus Silva is an underdog in this fight, great pick opportunity!

Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza over Villasenor is a no contest.  Way too good of a BJJ game for Jacare.

Kevin Randleman kinda sucks now, and I’d only take him at +1000 over anybody

Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante should win over Atwain Britt in a close fight.

You can bet on Strikeforce fights at BetUS or Bodog

There is also a Shine Fights event featuring Din Thomas vs Ricardo Mayorga tonight that you can bet on.

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