{"id":15842,"date":"2011-09-11T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15842"},"modified":"2011-09-11T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:11:52","slug":"josh-barnett-strikeforce-results-mmaufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15842","title":{"rendered":"Josh Barnett: STRIKEFORCE RESULTS \u2013 MMA\/UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15842\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11066\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"mma header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mma-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>By Siri Karri\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I LOVE saying \u201cI told you so\u201d . . . . so I\u2019ll go ahead and say I told you so.<\/p>\n<p>I predicted that Kharitonov, despite having cinder blocks for hands, would be taken to the ground and submitted by Josh Barnett. Interestingly enough . . . that\u2019s EXACTLY what happened!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t lie, I didn\u2019t predict how the fight got there. Kharitonov actually caught Barnett with several punches that snapped his head back early in the round. Now I expected Barnett to simply close the distance and take Kharitonov down . . . but he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Barnett hit Kharitonov several powerful counter hits that made Kharitonov think twice about charging in . . . and THEN he went ahead and took him down. Once again, Barnett actually went for the knockout as he dropped more elbows than Randy Savage (god rest his soul) on Kharitonov.<br \/>\nBut when it was all said and done, Barnett sunk in a choke to win. So why am I writing a post that has thus far stated the obvious?<\/p>\n<p>Barnett took shots from someone who is possibly the hardest hitter left in Strikeforce\u2019s heavyweight tournament . . . and won. Not just won, but got the better of the standup portion of the fight before dominating the rest of it. This basically means that if any fighter hopes to beat Josh Barnett, they will not be able to do it on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>So that, by process of elimination, means that the tournament winner will need to out grapple Josh Barnett . . . who is a world class wrestler and holds 2 international grappling titles.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, no sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of Siri&#8217;s Work: <a href=\"http:\/\/fightunity.wordpress.com\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Siri Karri\u00a0 I LOVE saying \u201cI told you so\u201d . . . . so I\u2019ll go ahead and say I told you so. I predicted that Kharitonov, despite having cinder blocks for hands, would be taken to the ground and submitted by Josh Barnett. Interestingly enough . . . that\u2019s EXACTLY what happened!<\/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":[5430,510,1051,736],"class_list":["post-15842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-josh-barnett","tag-mma","tag-strikeforce","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842","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=15842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}