Has Jason Miller Created a Significant Rivalry with Jake Shields?
by Anthony Pace on Apr 18, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
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PrintGoing into Strikeforce: Nashville, Scott Coker and crew surely understood the risk of having three championship fights on live network television, especially one featuring noted grinder Jake Shields. If all went to decision and weren’t similar to the epic Gilbert Melendez-Josh Thomson match, they stood the risk of a weeklong barrage of criticism from the MMA media and blogosphere. When Shields was pulled off of Dan Henderson in the fifth round that seemed all but inevitable. And then Jason "Mayhem" Miller got in the cage.
Miller interrupted Gus Johnson’s interview with the victorious Shields, asking the defending middleweight champ if he was ready for a rematch of their fight last November. Shields, still hyped up from the grueling contest with Henderson in which he was dropped twice in the first round, shoved Miller. Sprinkle in a little Nick Diaz and all hell broke loose. The ensuing brawl was only partially aired as CBS cut to stock footage. When the live feed came back in the fight was still going on as Gus Johnson implored them to stop.
Things settled down but a very thick dust cloud hangs over the aftermath. Miller seems to have done the improbable: generated heat for a rematch with Shields. He is currently scheduled to face Robbie Lawler next and Shields is in contract limbo. After Shields’ victory, the free agent will surely be receiving an enticing offer from the UFC. If all prior indicators pointed to him leaving Strikeforce, this invigorated rivalry certainly makes things interesting in the coming weeks.
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I don’t think anyone is clamoring to see a Mayhem-Shields rematch after the 5-round snoozer they put on in November. Miller’s antics this weekend satiated his constant need to be the center of attention but in my eyes his boorish behavior is quickly growing tired.
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Sheilds didn’t shove Miller.He just kind of touched his chest with the back of his glove,like “Hey buddy”.Honestly,Sheilds didn’t look upset at all with Miller being there.It was Melendez and the Diaz boys who flipped their lids.Melendez is the one who shoved Miller first,and then Nick Diaz came in throwing bombs.
Personally,I think Melendez and Diaz need to be suspended.They attacked a man with no cause.Is what Miller did in bad taste?Sure.That’s not cause for assault and battery.If that happened on the street,Melendez and the Diaz boys would be in jail right now.
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are you kidding me? Miller should be the only way to receive any disciplinary action. He had no right to even be in the cage. I can not for the life of me understand why strikeforce staff would allow him in the cage to begin with unless they wanted the entire event to happen.
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Did Hughes’ camp jump GSP when he said “I am not impressed by your performance”?Did Shane Carwin’s camp jump Brock Lesnar?
What happened Saturday night is not how adults act.
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by Brian Mayes on Apr 18, 2010 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice to see individuals perpetrating criminal assault get a pass in your estimation.
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by RearNakedPoke on Apr 19, 2010 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Agreed it is not how adults act, and under no circumstances should it have ever happened.
If you break the action down it all starts with the confrontation instigated by Miller. Looking at the facts, Miller was not a competitor, Miller was not a corner man, Miller created the confrontation, Miller created first physical contact (shoulder bumping/pushing is still physical contact).
The only purpose for Miller to be in that ring is to cause trouble. Now the others involved, anytime a group of people are fighting 1 person it is just disgusting and cowardly. Yes we know the Diaz brothers have a few screws loose and are flippin crazy, but in this case blame can be placed solely on Miller due to his intentions on entering a cage he had no business in.
Address the cause of the problem and you wont outcomes such as this brawl.
Also big difference in the GSP and Lesnar talking, they were brought into the ring by UFC officials, and they did not physically the other person.
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there is no way that i’m going to agree with you that bumping shoulders instigated a 5-on-1 criminal assault. Even Camp Caesar Gracie have come out and said as much, it was the more the interruption that set them off….
To say Mayhem was in there purely to cause trouble is subjective. Im not trying to pick on ya or piss ya off but i would suggest to you that there is a line of thinking where his presence was an act of self promotion in an attempt to create hype and potentially create and earn himself a rematch with Shields when no one wanted to see it prior to his grand entrance.
I think however ill chosen his timing was (imo it was a minor infraction) it remains to me that it was an ingenius idea, just perhaps purely executed. There is not a hope that I’m going to blame the man for being cheap shotted and soccer kicked whilst being held down. Like my first reply inferred, thats criminal battery. If i bump into a man giving an interview on the street to the local news network you’ll find very few people who would then blame me as the culprit if i was then to be mugged by 5 of his friends on live tv.
and yes the lesnar gsp occassions have no relevance, but thats why i didnt bring them up.
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by RearNakedPoke on Apr 19, 2010 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Miller shouldnt get anything. the big wigs had miller go in there or allowed him at least. sheilds contract is up. why not have the top contender run in the ring and talk shit. shields dont have a reason to stay with strikeforce. why would they not try to give the man incentive to stay. now if he dont fight, it makes him look like a punk and if he does then strikeforce wins. if strikeforce ran their program a little better this wouldnt be a topic. this wouldnt happen in the ufc. dana would drop everybody envolved.
by Terry Dickey on Apr 21, 2010 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions
shields will leg hump miller to death over 5 rounds. again. maybe miller will realize that shields won’t stand with him and actually drill his wrestling/takedown defense more this time.
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by theworldsoldestsport on Apr 18, 2010 5:56 PM EDT reply actions
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it’s the fight game. guys get heated…a good old fashioned brawl in the cage/ring postfight is awesomeness. :)
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by theworldsoldestsport on Apr 18, 2010 5:57 PM EDT reply actions
agreed
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by Anthony Pace on Apr 18, 2010 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Leave the brawling in the cage.
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by circuitbreaker on Apr 19, 2010 7:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Addendum
I was buzzed when I wrote this at midnight, but I still am interested in the fight. What I’d be even more interested in—suspensions aside—is a Mayhem/Diaz fight at 180lbs.
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