{"id":10639,"date":"2011-05-17T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10639"},"modified":"2011-05-17T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T00:16:43","slug":"maximo-blanco-strikeforce-ufc-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10639","title":{"rendered":"Maximo Blanco STRIKEFORCE &#8211; UFC DECISION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10643\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"maximo blanco header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/maximo-blanco-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Sean Farrell <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MMA transaction of the year has just happened, Venezuelan fighting machine and fan favorite Maximo Blanco has signed with Strikeforce.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Blanco has confirmed with Sherdog.com that the Sengoku Raiden veteran and former lightweight King of Pancrase has signed a four-fight deal with Strikeforce. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This signing is only the first step towards not only Blanco competing in the U.S., but the Pan-American freestyle wrestling bronze medalist is considering permanent relocation to the United States. Currently, Blanco&#8217;s handlers are seeking an agreement for him to train stateside before his official debut in the cage, which by all means, makes a lot of sense instead of rushing him in like many other prospects coming in from Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco&#8217;s terms with Sengoku Raiden officially came to a halt when his promotional support and housing was withdrawn earlier this year, following the SRC&#8217;s failed relationship with its top sponsor, Japanese retailer Don Quijote.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco moved to Japan as a teen, and went on to wrestle at Sendai Ikuei High School before attending Nihon University on a wrestling scholarship. In his MMA career, Blanco has trained under the tutelage of Olympic judo gold medalist Hidehiko Yoshida at his dojo and J-Rock Workout Studio in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>In search of newer career opportunities, Blanco also has signed with American management group SuckerPunch Entertainment in his hopes of relocating to the United States. Blanco will enter the cage with a cumulative 8-2-1 record, his last bout came by way of a decision victory over South Korea&#8217;s Won Sik Park in Sengoku Raiden&#8217;s &#8220;Soul of Fight&#8221; last December. Blanco&#8217;s showing in that event was subpar however, as he didn&#8217;t look anywhere near as impressive as his earlier outings with the promotion. 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A source close to Blanco has confirmed with Sherdog.com that the Sengoku Raiden veteran and former lightweight King of Pancrase has signed a four-fight deal with Strikeforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1051,736],"class_list":["post-10639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-strikeforce","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}