Strikeforce Signs Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante
by -Neil- on Jun 7, 2010 4:57 PM EDT
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MMA Junkie is reporting that Strikeforce has signed JZ Cavalcante, and may fight as soon as August of this year.
JZ was a hot commodity in 2007, making many top ten lists, but he's been plagued with knee injuries for quite a while. In more recent competition, he went 0-1-1 against Shinya Aoki at Dream.1 in Dream's lightweight grand prix, going to a no-contest in their first fight due to a questionable elbow, then losing a unanimous decision a month later at Dream.2. He took time off after to rehab his knees, and was supposed to fight Joachim Hansen at Dynamite!! 2008, but Hansen was forced to pull out days after failing the medical examination. Since then Cavalcante has fought once, losing a decision to Tatsuya Kawajiri at Dream.9.
Is JZ healthy enough to compete? Will Strikeforce actually give him fights, or treat him like Shaolin?
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Sweet
he should maybe get a warmup, then fight Josh Thomson
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Ehh...good for him...I guess
he might get the Shaolin treatment though….which makes me question why he went there…but they’ll prolly let him fight in Japan still…so…..
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Shaolin treatment sucks :-(
BUT yah I read that if they cant put on Melendez-Alvarez it will be Melendez-JZ…..?? I wouldnt mind seen it but as much as I love JZ does he really deserve it… but then again does majority of SF title fights have deserving contenders.
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I'm personally a little concerned about the Shaolin treatment
But even more than that, whether or not that knee will hold up. Time will tell!
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well
he hasn’t fought in over a year…so he’s had time to get it right I guess….as you said..we’ll see.
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FUCK YES! Apologies if anyone’s offended by the use of profanity but it seems appropriate for this situation. This is great news. When JZ fights (about once a year), dude is a pretty big bad ass.
As far as him signing with the UFC goes, I would be willing to bet he’ll never fight in the UFC. He is way too injury-prone and Zuffa isn’t going to pay what he demands to have him fight once a year.
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