{"id":2108,"date":"2009-08-03T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2009-08-03T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:23:09","slug":"inside-the-fight-game-80309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Fight Game 8\/03\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2109\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2109\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=2109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2109\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2109\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fedor-emelianenko-8-3.jpg\" alt=\"Fedor Emelianenko Signs with Strikeforce\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fedor Emelianenko Signs with Strikeforce<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->By George Hernandez<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the\u00a0 #1 heavyweight and best pound for pound fighter in the world Fedor Emelianenko couldn&#8217;t finalize a deal with the worlds #1 MMA promotion the UFC, Fedor signed a multi-fight deal with the UFC&#8217;s biggest competition Strikeforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the fall of Affliction&#8217;s MMA brand last week, everyone thought there would be no doubt that Fedor was headed to the UFC. The UFC president Dana White was not willing to co-promote with Fedor&#8217;s management M-1 Global.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So Fedor jumped right in the heavyweight title picture. The current champion is Alistair Overeem who hasn&#8217;t defended his title since he won it in November 2007. Overeem was supposed to fight Fabricio Werdum August 15 but pulled out due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fedor&#8217;s only competition in Strikeforce besides Overeem and Werdum will be undefeated Brett Rogers and veteran Paul Buentello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}