It'll be a quick trip to Nashville today as I'm bailing town this morning for the 5 hour drive and getting there just in time to check into the hotel, run around a little bit, and head to the Strikeforce show... aptly named Strikeforce: Nashville. It'll be easier for you to catch it as it's live on CBS tonight. Watch for me, I'm in the 3rd row on the risers so maybe you can see me. Since it's on network TV the card should be finished by 10:00 PM give or take (with 3 title fights... it's hard to say) so surely we'll get some time to run around downtown a bit after the show. I'd love to get to one of my favorite bars, The Beer Seller, for a couple of cold draft Stone brews.There are 3 huge title fights are at the top of the card:
* Champ Jake Shields vs. Dan Henderson (for middleweight title)
* Champ Gegard Mousasi vs. Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal (for light heavyweight title)
* Champ Gilbert Melendez vs. Shinya Aoki (for Strikeforce lightweight title)
I'll go with one of my favorite fighters, Dan Henderson, to KO Shields and take the belt in round 2, Mousasi over King Mo by a later round submission and Melendez over Aoki by KO in about the 2nd or 3rd round.
One thing is for sure, I'm getting to add some great fighters (I've already seen Shields choke out Robbie Lawler) to the long list of guys I've seen fight live... which already includes BJ Penn, Tito Ortiz, Wanderlei Silva, Lyota Machida, Shane Carwin, Robbie Lawler, Nick Diaz, Phil Baroni, Andrei Arlovski, Kevin Randleman, Brett Rogers, Vito Belfor, Rich Franklin, Junior Dos Santos, Mike Swick, Josh Koscheck, Frank Trigg, Tyson Griffin and others. A virtual who's who of MMA stars!
The undercard doesn't blow me away but that's just because I'm not familiar with many of the guys. Bully Beatdown's Jason "Mayhem" Miller (went the distance with GSP in the UFC, has fought in WEC and Dream) and Cale Yarbrough (he was on TUF season 7 and fought once in the UFC, getting smashed by Tim Credeur, and hasn't lost since) are both on there so it could be fun.
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