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Jorge Santiago Is Open To Fighting For Strikeforce

From Graciemag:

Jorge Santiago – I’m stoked in Japan and intend to stay there a good while. I haven’t fought in the United States since 2007, but now with Pezao [Antonio Silva], who also fights in Sengoku, we now have a good opening in Strikeforce. That’s something we started talking about last week and, if all goes well, I’ll start fighting in two countries. It could be I get a shot at Strikeforce, if just because the event will let me fight in Japan too, so I’ll be able to fight the whole year.


We mentioned a couple of months back that Santiago was interested in fighting in America again, but mentioned that the exclusivity that UFC requires made it unlikely.  However, now that Strikeforce is allowing some of their fighters to fight in Japan as well as the U.S., Santiago appears open to the idea.  Santiago would be an incredible addition to a growing middleweight stable of fighters for Strikeforce.  However, Santiago has a tough match up in Mamed Khalidov in his next fight at Sengoku. 

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I know DREAM and Strikeforce have a partnership...

… but I’m not sure if DREAM would be too happy if Strikeforce let Sengoku’s MW Champ fight for them, considering Sengoku is DREAM’s biggest competitor in Japan

by TDITZ on Oct 15, 2009 12:16 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

It would be tight though..

… if DREAM and Sengoku merged! It would be much closer to Pride days. Then, they could collaborate with SF to give UFC some real competition with world class fighters. Almost all top 10 fighters are in these 4 orgs + WEC.

by TDITZ on Oct 15, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ehh

Even if they mereged….they wouldnt’ be a big threat to the UFC IMO…the UFC still has way past the majority of the best fighters…plus name brand recognition…

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by Kelvin Hunt on Oct 15, 2009 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

No doubt

But that would be about as sick of a collabo you could hope for outside of Zuffa.

by TDITZ on Oct 15, 2009 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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