NO HOLDS BARRED

The upcoming Strikeforce Fighting Championship mixed martial arts show has a new main event and a new web site to boot.

An injury to Kevin Randleman has forced him to withdraw from his fight with Vitor Belfort. This had been scheduled as the main event for their next show on Friday, June 9, at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. Now Belfort will be facing Alistair Overeem, a regular in Pride. This fight is actually a rematch, as on April 23 of last year, Overeem defeated Belfort in Pride by a guillotine choke at 9:36 of the first round.

More information is on the Strikeforce press release, which we have also posted on the Combat Sports News.

And you can also check out their new web site, at http://www.strikeforceusa.net/ , which includes information on how to order tickets for this event.

SUMO TOUR UPDATE

The new World Sumo League (WSL) has updated its 2006 tour schedule for North America. Here are the latest dates for the 13 venues on this leg of the tour:

Friday, May 26, at The Palace at Auburn Hills, MI
Saturday, May 27, at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, IL
Saturday, June 3, at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, June 6, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada
Friday, June 9, at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, NJ
Sunday, June 11, at the Bank Atlantic Arena in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Monday, June 12, at St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, FL
Friday, June 16, at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, CA
Saturday, June 17, at Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA
Tuesday, June 20, at Everett Events Center in Everett, WA
Wednesday, June 21, at Rose Garden in Portland, OR
Friday, June 23, at Glendale Arena, Glendale, AZ
Saturday, June 24, at Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV

WSL is also bringing to New York Thursday eight of its wrestlers to tape commercials for a British television series which will air in July and feature this tour. They are Levan Altunashvili of the Republic of Georgia; Stilian Georgiev and Petar Stoyanov of Bulgaria; Kaleo of Japan; Sidney Carty of The Netherlands; Hans Borg and Ronny Allman of Norway; and Wayne Vierra, Jr. of Hawaii.

LET’S TALK BOXING WEB SITE

Thanks also go to Armando Cabrera of Let's Talk Boxing.

His site posted the release about the NO HOLDS BARRED podcast as well as SecondsOut Radio.

It’s good to see the combat sports media, and especially those with the good sense to be online, supporting each other.