Which promotion had a more impressive April card?

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: phoenix-mma
Date: April 19, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

I've talked with some of you guys that weren't overly impressed with the Strikeforce card last week, and the comments i'm reading indicate ever more people are less impressed with UFC 97.
So, in the battle for the almighty viewer....who had the better performance, Strikeforce or UFC? And will their April cards influence your choice to watch their next fights?
Strikeforce had some nice fights with 'Grim' Rogers KO of Humphreys via knees, Cyborg in a lopsided win, Gilbert Melendez spectacular KO, Smith/Radach (early favorite FOTY), and Nick Diaz' domination of Shamrock.
UFC 97 saw the reanimated Shogun put the Iceman into retirement. Luis Cain win a standup war over Cantwell, The Polish experiment make quick work of Brian Stann. Sam Stout won a real gut check fight, and AS struggled to get Leites to fight with him.
Me personally, i'm excited for the Lawler/Shields card with Babalu/Feijao, Riggs/Baroni. And UFC 98 looks good on paper, but we'll see.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Castellammarese
Date: April 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

The Strikeforce card delivered from top to bottom
The UFC 97 card delivered until the main event. One of the worst fights in the history of MMA
So I will go with Strikeforce

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: FamilyGuy
Date: April 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

Both impressed me. A bad MMA card is still good.
Kinda like sex... bad sex is still good. No??!?

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: mmafanatic
Date: April 19, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

Castellammarese said:
The Strikeforce card delivered from top to bottom
The UFC 97 card delivered until the main event. One of the worst fights in the history of MMA
So I will go with Strikeforce
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+1

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Castellammarese
Date: April 19, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

FamilyGuy said:
Both impressed me. A bad MMA card is still good.
Kinda like sex... bad sex is still good. No??!?
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Erm, no

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: bp
Date: April 19, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

Both were good but I'll go with UFC. Other than the main event, it was a solid night. Hell, I even enjoyed watching a Kongo fight.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Jak
Date: April 19, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

Both were good. Diaz vs. Shamrock was about as competitive as Silva vs. Leites, the only difference was that Shamrock gave up a lot quicker than Leites did.
Neither headlining fight was good, but every televised fight on both cards were great.
bp said:
Hell, I even enjoyed watching a Kongo fight.
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+1

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: veritas
Date: April 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

it was a striker vs a grapplers, i dont know why everyone is shocked to see the result of this fight. leites was not ready and did not want to fight. itwas a horrible match up by the ufc. but still the rest of the card was great. strikeforce does not belong in the same sentence as ufc as of right now. there card was not good. this is not one of ufc best and strikeforce just had its best card every and there is still a debate of which is better...
ufc

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: cool14
Date: April 20, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

UFC 97 had better fighters and match ups but the Silva fight made the card look bad.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: RexBeavers
Date: April 20, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

FamilyGuy said:
bad sex is still good. No??!
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IDK bad MMA cards never gave me herpes, but they did steal 45 of my hard earned duckets

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: ArcArsenal
Date: April 20, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

RexBeavers said:
FamilyGuy said:
bad sex is still good. No??!
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IDK bad MMA cards never gave me herpes, but they did steal 45 of my hard earned duckets
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as opposed to the sex, which gave you herpes AND cost 45 bucks.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: RexBeavers
Date: April 20, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

ArcArsenal said:
RexBeavers said:
FamilyGuy said:
bad sex is still good. No??!
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IDK bad MMA cards never gave me herpes, but they did steal 45 of my hard earned duckets
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as opposed to the sex, which gave you herpes AND cost 45 bucks.
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Now this guy gets me

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Castellammarese
Date: April 20, 2009 at 07:31 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

ArcArsenal said:
RexBeavers said:
FamilyGuy said:
bad sex is still good. No??!
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IDK bad MMA cards never gave me herpes, but they did steal 45 of my hard earned duckets
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as opposed to the sex, which gave you herpes AND cost 45 bucks.
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:lol: :lol:

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: phoenix-mma
Date: April 20, 2009 at 08:18 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

So, we've learned that the UFC is a hooker that you paid $45 for a quickie and gave you the herp. Strike was a free one night stand that gave you crabs

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: CPT
Date: April 20, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

I think UFC 97 was a better card, Strikeforce was a better event.
WEC 40 was better than both though.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: PayaamElixir
Date: April 20, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

How the f--- can people say Strikeforce had a better card? That makes zero sense. That card only had 1 great fight. Radach and Smith.
Melendez and Damm was sloppy as s---
Cyborg and Akano was a complete joke and a disgrace
Shamrock and Diaz was weak cause Frank had busted ribs and the fight was not compititive
How was that Strikeforce card so great. Weird.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: phoenix-mma
Date: April 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

NarlyPersianDude said:
How the f**k can people say Strikeforce had a better card? That makes zero sense. That card only had 1 great fight. Radach and Smith.
Melendez and Damm was sloppy as s**t
Cyborg and Akano was a complete joke and a disgrace
Shamrock and Diaz was weak cause Frank had busted ribs and the fight was not compititive
How was that Strikeforce card so great. Weird.
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was there anything on the UFC card comparable to Smith/Radach? IMO thats FOTY so far. Cyborg was lopsided...i give ya that. Grim vs Humphreys was pretty good. And whether you think Shamrock/Diaz was weak or not, it was still more exciting that AS/Leites. Sure there have been much better cards in the past...but we're talking just these 2 cards.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Fungu
Date: April 20, 2009 at 01:10 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

Strikeforce (Shamrock/Diaz)!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: phoenix-mma
Date: May 19, 2009 at 06:28 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

**JUNE CARDS**
STRIKEFORCE
MAIN CARD
Robbie Lawler vs. Jake Shields
Nick Diaz vs. Scott Smith
Kevin Randleman vs. Mike Whitehead
Phil Baroni vs. Joe Riggs
Brett Rogers vs Andrei Arlovski
PRELIMINARY CARD
Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante vs. Jared Hamman
Josh Bumgarner vs. Jesse Finney
Tyron Woodley vs. Sal Woods
Lucas Lopes vs. Scott Ventimiglia
Pat Benson vs. Dave Cochran
Booker DeRousse vs. James Wade
UFC
MAIN CARD (televised)
Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva
Heath Herring vs. Cain Velasquez
Ben Saunders vs. Mike Swick
Marcus Davis vs. Dan Hardy
Spencer Fisher vs. Caol Uno
Mirko Cro Cop vs Mustafa Al-Turk (rumored)
PRELIMINARY CARD (un-televised)
Justin Buchholz vs. Terry Etim
Dale Hartt vs. Denis Siver
Peter Sobotta vs. Paul Taylor
Roli Delgado vs. Paul Kelly
Denis Stojnic vs. Stefan Struve
Mustapha al Turk vs. Todd Duffee
John Hathaway vs. Rick Story
WEC
MAIN CARD
Champ Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber (for WEC featherweight title)
Jose Aldo vs. Cub Swanson
Donald Cerrone vs. James Krause
Josh Grispi vs. Jens Pulver
PRELIMINARY CARD (un-televised)
John Franchi vs. Manny Gamburyan
Kyle Dietz vs. Charlie Valencia
Mike Campbell vs. Anthony Pettis
Antonio Banuelos vs. Scott Jorgensen
Frank Gomez vs. TBA
Seth Dikun vs. Rolando Perez
So far Strikeforce & UFC99 are neck and neck (IMO)

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: ronkiz21
Date: May 19, 2009 at 06:34 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/which-promotion-had-a-more-impressive-april-card.12733/

The Strikeforce card weekend will be sick. Then will see Urijah Faber vs. Mike Brown 2 the next night, which to me is almost a super fight and two times a better matchup then Urijah vs. Jens 1. Not too mention Jose Aldo will be on that card too.
But I think if UFC 99 get Cro Cop on the card it's the best individual one of June. I really am interested to see where he's at right now. But with no Cro Crop I give it to Strikeforce. If they still had Babalu defending his belt it's the best of June wether UFC 99 has Cro Cop or not.