As we all know, recently Strikeforce announced a HeavyWeight 'GP' to entice the heart and mind of every MMA fan on the planet with access to media of any sort. It's impossible to go anywhere near websites, blogs, youtube pages without being reminded just what's ins tore over the course of the next year and I'm sure I'm not alone when i say i'm past excitement and I'm starting to romanticise the whole event in my head but are Scott Coker and Rich Chou taking a risk? the potential for this tournament to peak interest in strikefoce, let alone MMA as a whole is tremendous, within the brackets of the tournament lay some of the best fighters on the planet but as we all know, in a GP this can mean everything, but it can also mean nothing.. at this second the Strikeforce heavyweight roster boasts (but isn't limited to) :

• The current Strikeforce, DREAM and K1 2010 HW GP champion - Alistair Overeem
• Current WAMMA (lol) HW champion, last PRIDE Heavyweight champion - Fedor
• Former M1 Global MFC European HW and UFC HW champion - Andre Arloski
• Former UF HW champion, Open-weight King Of Pancrase - Josh Barnett
• Current world submission wresling champion (ADCC) - Fabricio Werdum
• 2 time HW title contender and perennial sam's club employee of the month - Brett Rogers
• 6 time Russian Airborn Troops Hand-to-Hand combat champion - Sergei Kharitonov
• Cage Rage/Elite XC HW champion and Cage Warriors Super HW champion - Antonio Silva
• Undefeated Olympic team captain, XMMA & King of the Cage HW champion - Daniel Cormier
• XMMA and King of the Cage Light-Heavyweight champion - Mike Kyle
• WBC Muay Thai Heavyweight champion - Shane Del Rosario
• 2 Time Armed Forces Champion - Bobby Lashley
•  Lavar Johnson
•  Devin Cole
• Chad Griggs.

and while I'm unsure the addition is permanent, the addition of tournament alternate Former WKBA Super heavyweight world champion and constant K1 battler Ray Sefo who is a veteran of over 80 fights branching across MMA, kick boxing and boxing

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