UPDATED: Shields signs with UFC, will move to 170 pounds
by Matt Bishop on Jul 16, 2010 9:55 AM EDT
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Former EliteXC welterweight and Strikeforce middleweight champion Jake Shields has officially signed the UFC, his camp's website says.
And after much debate, it appears it will come at 170 pounds, not 185.
Jake Shields will be debuting at the 170lbs weight division in the UFC. After careful consideration and consulting with UFC representatives it was determined Jake would be finally going back to his original fighting weight.
Jake's opponent is one of the UFC's top contenders and will be announced shortly.
Shields (25-4-1 overall) was a perfect 8-0 under the banners of EliteXC and Strikeforce and retained his middleweight championship at "Strikeforce: Nashville" with a decision win against the highly-favored Dan Henderson. But Strikeforce allowed him to go into the fight without signing an extension and a week later, he was spotted on camera with UFC president Dana White at the WEC 48 pay-per-view.
Strikeforce released Shields on June 30.
UPDATE: Sports Illustrated's Josh Gross says on his Twitter that Shields isn't officially signed yet.
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Kampmann is a highly under rated grappler. That would be a life and death battle on the ground. It would not be just 15 minutes of Jake Shields in top control. Kampmann has serious game on the ground.
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Truth, Kampmann is no slouch on the mat.
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by doonerthesooner on Jul 16, 2010 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
He's no slouch
But despite having some cred, I’d be surprised if Shields didn’t tool him. I mean, Kawajiri is a pretty damn competent grappler, and look what happened to him. Not the same, of course, but you get what I mean.
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Why would Shields tool him? Kampmann is far and away the best submission grappler Shields has ever fought. This is still the same guy who almost got submitted by Mayhem Miller less than a year ago.
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A 25 minute fight is a long time not to almost get caught by something. And let’s not forget that Mayhem went 15 minutes with Jacare and GSP and didn’t get sub’d, so let’s try and give the man a little bit of credit. I don’t expect Shields to sub his face off, but I don’t think that this is going to be go to some iffy split decision. This is the same guy that a lot of people said that Hendo would KO, because of his awful wrestling and bad stand-up. His stand-up is still pretty bad, but he out-grappled a (decades-later) Olympian.
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Dan Henderson nearly knocked Shields’ head into the third row and won a 10-8 round in the first round. Then he got taken down and controlled for four rounds. This shouldn’t be suprisingly to anyone, since Dan Henderson has absolutley zero defense wrestling. This man spent considerable time on the bottom against Ninja Rua for Christ’s sake. He also got outwrestled by Yuki Kondo for the matter. So outgrappling Dan Henderson isn’t some great feat, especially after he’s totally shot his load trying to finish a dude.
I don’t see how you can think Shields is just going to be able to hold down Kampmann for 3 rounds and dry hump him. This isn’t Jason Miller or Dan Henderson we’re talking about here. Kampmann is quite adapt at creating scrambles and sweeps from the bottom. He is also very agressive from the bottom with submissions.
This is going to be a very competitive fight between two highly skilled grapplers. Thinking it’s going to be a shut out in either direction is just silly.
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You have an odd opinion about the first round of Hendo vs Shields. Dan won the round but 10-8 for a knockdown? Give me a break, especially when Shields out grappled him even in that first round.
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What fight did you watch? Henderson completley dominated that opening round and Shields had zero offense. Sheilds did nothing but hold on and survive in that first round. He did NOT start to outgrapple Henderson until midway through the second round when Henderson started acting like a dumbass and took Shields’ back and looked for a choke. Then it was all downhill from there.
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We'll see
But I think that you’re giving Kampmann a little too much credit here. Sort of like how you give Velasquez too much over Lesnar.
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I’m saying Kampmann isn’t going to get totally dominated and embarrassed by Shields and will more than hold his own. How is that giving him “a little too much credit”. The man’s a legit Top Ten welterweight, for crying out loud.
And Velasquez does pretty much everything better than Brock Lesnar. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to point that out.
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I forsee a fight with alves
So that White can Make him fight a hard fight and see if he is going to be worth the investment/give alves a highlight reel KO.
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