After Shields victory over Henderson, Jason “Mayhem” Miller in true Mayhem fashion disrupted the post fight interview.
During the interview, Mayhem walked into the ring, and asked for a rematch against Sheilds.  No one is to sure how and who started the brawl, but what ensued will go down in MMA history along the lines of Coleman/Rua back in Pride.
Shields team, members of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu including Melendez and the Diaz brothers, stormed in and took Miller to the ground.  Gus Johnson got in on the action trying to break the fight up yelling, “Gentleman, we’re on National Television.”
After the fight broke up, Shields apologized, and Miller wasn’t allowed to the post fight conference.  He did have time to get on his [...]

Jake Shields went into his fight against Dan Henderson as the Strikeforce champ, and he walked away still the Strikeforce Champ.
Shields fought a tough fight against an MMA legend in Dan Henderson, but during the fight he was able to counter Hendo’s wrestling.  On the ground Shields was able to get in some ground and pound and a few submission attempts.
For Shields is what a great win, but Hendo almost had him in the first 30 seconds when he rocked Shields with a heavy punch that dropped him.
“I was dizzy for a while there,” said Shields. “I didn’t know where I was in the first minute.”
Shields scored a takedown with just over a minute left in the first setting the [...]

Gilbert Melendez proved why he was the lightweight champ after he destroyed Shinya Aoki last night.  Aoki is known as the 2nd or best Lightweight in the world, but last night he had no answers for the fans.
Aoki, who is a submission specialist, seemed less then ready to faceoff in the cage.  Melendez seemed to dictate where the fight would go, always stuffing the takedowns from Aoki.
“I just wanted to show I’m a complete mixed martial artist,” Melendez told MMA Fighting. “There are lots of guys who are good at one thing or another, I think I’ve proven I can do it all.  That guy’s tricky, you make one mistake and he gets you,” he said. “It was around the [...]

Last night Muhammad “King Mo” Lawal showed why he was a rising star in MMA after an almost complete domination against former Strikeforce Champ Gegard Mousasi.
Mousasi, known for his power, was never able to fully get his offense started.  King Mo always answered Mousasi’s stand up with amazing wrestling takedowns.  Although Mousasi was able to land some punches from his back, it was King Mo who was able to dominate more from the ground.
Lawal did take some damage as an accidental eye poke forced his eye shut.  Lawal said he had dealt with eye pokes on more then one occasion and fought through it. While it may not have been a masterpiece, Lawal should get credit for his game planning [...]

Shinya Aoki is the lightweight champion of Dream, Japan’s biggest MMA promotion.  He firmly established himself as the best in Japan.
Now he’s ready to take North America by storm.  After signing a multi-fight deal with Strikeforce, and a fight contract against Lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez, Aoki said adding the Strikeforce title would mean something important to him.  He says it’s not just for personal pride, but for national pride as well.
“I believe that Japan is the number one country in mixed martial arts, so I want to show that through this fight,” Aoki said Wednesday, through a translator. “Being the champion of two promotions, Dream and Strikeforce, that has a special meaning to me, to show Japan as number one.
Aoki [...]