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By Zach Arnold | April 20, 2010

I figured I would quote Dave Meltzer here from his radio show today since he tries to give a fair take on what is happening right now and what the company mindset is within Strikeforce.

“Strikeforce, it was a 1.8 rating… and… it’s… you know, I mean… it wasn’t, you know, after talking to a lot of people today including people there (at the show), it was certainly disappointing. It was not disastrous. They have done worse, you know when they did the show from Stockton and it did come back from that… Will they do it? You know… CBS is going to have to make the call. I mean there’s, it’s not a sure thing either way. It’s not like, ‘Oh my God, they’re dead for sure!’ They haven’t informed, certainly no one in Strikeforce knows that they’re dead. And they haven’t been, I mean just based on talking to people and everything like that today, they’re not acting like it’s a dead thing. There are signs that are positive that they’ll probably do another show in the fall. You know one of the things that you know was brought up to me was that you know realistically in another day or two, no one’s going to talk about that brawl again and certainly by Saturday you know it’ll be a dead subject.

Now the rating, you know, again, the rating was more important thing than the brawl and the rating wasn’t good, but it’s also the learning thing in the sense that we know that with the right match, we can do a good demo play with MMA. We also now know for sure that with you know that Dan Henderson is not the right and Jake Shields was not the right match and that unless we have the right match, you really don’t want to do this show. You can’t just do the show and go like, ‘We got this card with all these guys that are like ranked and this and that or this match is you look on paper and go on paper we got a good show so we’ll have exciting fights and people will tune in.’ It’s not that. There’s no, all you got is star power and the problem of course with Strikeforce is there’s not a lot of that star power there. I mean, maybe Herschel Walker? And that’s not a lock. Gina Carano? Probably, probably… Fedor for sure, but God knows what you know… Fedor and Strikeforce do not have a deal for another fight right now and it’s you know the situation is what the situation is, it’s um… it’s impossible to do deals with those guys you know and so you’re kind of being held under a barrel by that thing. Stealing someone from UFC is probably not going to happen, I don’t see anyone from UFC at this point in time going, “Yeah, I want to jump on CBS, I want to jump on bandwagon.” If anything, people right now would be scared to make that move. Arlovski’s not the guy, you know, no matter, you know, he’s just not that guy. So, um, I suppose they could do a Cyborg/Carano re-match? And that actually would work but the problem is there then, you know, you’re going to have the same massacre more likely than not.”