{"id":7485,"date":"2011-02-10T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2011-02-10T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:57:35","slug":"strikeforce-shocking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"StrikeForce: Shocking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7485 \" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7485 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7279\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"strikeforcemeet header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/strikeforcemeet-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>WHO: STRIKEFORCE CEO Scott Coker <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE: Fox News Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN: Friday, Feb. 11, at 7:15 a.m. ET \/ 4:15 a.m. PT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT: Interview on Fox &amp; Friends on Fox News Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coker will discuss the historic, upcoming STRIKEFORCE World Grand Prix \u2013 Heavyweight Tournament, a three-stage, single-elimination tournament that will take place over several events in 2011 that will feature the return of the MMA legend, Fedor \u201cThe Last Emperor\u201d Emelianenko and STRIKEFORCE World Heavyweight Champion Alistair \u201cThe Demolition Man\u201d Overeem. The first two quarterfinal fights take place this Saturday, Feb. 12, live SHOWTIME\u00ae (10 p.m. ET\/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J. In the main event, Emelianenko (31-2, 1 NC) will face Antonio \u201cBig Foot\u201d Silva (15-2) in a STRIKEFORCE and M-1 GLOBAL co-promoted event.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Co-featured on Feb. 12, former world champion Andrei Arlovski (15-8) will face Sergei Kharitonov (16-4), the last man to defeat Overeem. <\/p>\n<p>The other two quarterfinal matchups are as follows: Overeem (34-11, 1 NC) will face the only man to tap out Fedor, the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Fabricio Werdum (14-4-1), while the heavy-handed Brett \u201cThe Grim\u201d Rogers (11-2) will meet a hungry Josh Barnett (29-5). The location and date for these quarterfinal tournament fights are to be announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Pre-Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: STRIKEFORCE CEO Scott Coker WHERE: Fox News Channel WHEN: Friday, Feb. 11, at 7:15 a.m. ET \/ 4:15 a.m. PT WHAT: Interview on Fox &amp; Friends on Fox News Channel Coker will discuss the historic, upcoming STRIKEFORCE World Grand Prix \u2013 Heavyweight Tournament, a three-stage, single-elimination tournament that will take place over several events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[510,2583,1051],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-mma","tag-scott-coker","tag-strikeforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","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=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}