GEGARD MOUSASI TO DEFEND STRIKEFORCE TITLE ON NOVEMBER 7TH

Examiner.com
October 7, 11:38 AM

StrikeForce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi is apparently
making his first defence on the November 9th card where Fedor
Emelianenko will fight Brett Rogers.

Another impressive performance from the young Armenian should go a
long way to making him into a real star rather than a relative secret
only known about by the hardcore fans. Particularly because the card
is airing on CBS and should already sell a good amount from its main
event alone.

An opponent has yet to be named, although given that he beat Renato
‘babalu’ Sobral so easily, the challenger will seemingly have to come
from outside StrikeForce. The leading contenders so far are Paulo
Filho and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou. Filho and Mousasi have bad blood
for some reason, and a fight would be interesting if probably not
that competitive. Sokoudjou was scheduled to fight Mousasi in Dream,
but Gegard was forced to pull out from injury.

Also on the card are Jason Miller, Bobby Lashley, Antonio Silva,
Fabricio Wedrum and Jake Shields, making this card one of the most
stacked outside the UFC in recent years. Whether the sales will
reflect all the stars included on the card isn’t certain, but if any
card can do decent numbers in a UFC saturated market, then this is it.