{"id":4331,"date":"2010-04-18T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2021-03-17T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T01:25:44","slug":"3-title-fights-3-upsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4331","title":{"rendered":"3 Title Fights, 3 Upsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z041810strikeforce_nashvill.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nashville.strikeforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Strikeforce: Nashville<\/strong><\/a> was held last night and aired on <strong>CBS<\/strong>.\u00a0 Three titles were on the line and all three fights were exciting examples of an <strong>underdog<\/strong> going into a fight well prepared, with a plan that he stuck to that led to a win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Muhammed &#8220;King Mo&#8221; Lawal vs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mousasi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gegard Mousasi<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 In just his seventh fight, <strong>King Mo<\/strong> was a huge underdog going in against <strong>Mousasi<\/strong>, who held the title.\u00a0 From the first round on, <strong>King Mo<\/strong> was able to take down <strong>Mousasi<\/strong> at will.\u00a0 Early in the fight it appeared that <strong>King Mo <\/strong>was going to gas out.\u00a0 At the end of the second round, <strong>Mo<\/strong> appeared to have trouble standing and walking back to his corner &#8212; he was that tired.\u00a0 Yet, <strong>Mo<\/strong> continued to score takedown after takedown and ended up winning the decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gil Melendez<\/strong> [<strong>Strikeforce Champion<\/strong>] was the underdog when he entered the octogan against <strong>Shinya Aoki<\/strong>.\u00a0 Most experts thought that once the fight went to the ground <strong>Aoki<\/strong> would submit<strong> Melendez<\/strong>.\u00a0 It seemed that even <strong>Melendez<\/strong> thought that a possibility when the fight started &#8212; so his plan was to make this a standup war.\u00a0 And he did.\u00a0 Each time <strong>Aoki<\/strong> attempted to take <strong>Melendez<\/strong> down, <strong>Melendez<\/strong> punished him with hard punches.\u00a0 <strong>Melendez<\/strong> had a beautiful fight plan, stuck to it, and won a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>biggest upset<\/strong> of the night was <strong>Strikeforce Champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jakeshields.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Shields<\/a><\/strong> scoring a unanimous decision against <strong>Dan Henderson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Early in the first round it looked to be lights out for <strong>Shields<\/strong> when <strong>Henderson<\/strong> rocked him with a punch that dropped him.\u00a0 <strong>Shields<\/strong> recovered enough to keep the fight going, but was dropped again in the first.\u00a0 Again it looked to be an early night for <strong>Henderson<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Shields<\/strong> didn&#8217;t see it that way.\u00a0 From the second round on, he scored takedown after takedown and dominated <strong>Henderson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Several times <strong>Shields<\/strong> even achieved a full mount to rain down punches on<strong> Henderson<\/strong>, who to his credit, each time was able to avoid a ref stoppage.\u00a0 <strong>Shields<\/strong> earned a well deserved unanimous decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikeforce: Nashville was held last night and aired on CBS.\u00a0 Three titles were on the line and all three fights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26202,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/26202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}