» Fighter: Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

Strikeforce light heavyweight champion “Dreamcatcher” Gegard Mousasi (24-2-1), former Strikeforce champ and UFC challenger “Babalu” Renato Sobral (31-9), and “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (7-6) will compete in a light heavyweight tournament to begin at DREAM.15 May30, according to MMA Junkie.

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UFC light heavyweight “Minotoro” Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (17-3) has emerged from a two-year hiatus from the top ten rankings, during which much of the new MMA fandom knew him only as the brother of Fighters.com’s fourth-ranked heavyweight “Minotauro” Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-5-1).

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Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi (23-2-1) TKO’d “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (6-5) by referee stoppage at 3:43 of round two at Strikeforce in Chicago Saturday night.

Sokoudjou reveresed a trip takedown attempt by Mousasi at the cage, but Mousasi swept into top position and windmilled lefts and right hooks to Sokoudjou’s body and head until the referee ended the fight.

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Fighters.com Heavyweight Champion “Last Emperor” Fedor Emelianenko (30-1) and fifth-ranked heavyweight “Grim” Brett Rogers (10-0) both made weight Friday before their matchup at Strikeforce at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates northwest of Chicago November 7.

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As anticipation builds among MMA fans for Saturday night’s M-1 Global/Strikeforce main event between Fighters.com Heavyweight Champion “Last Emperor” Fedor Emelianenko (30-1) and fifth-ranked heavyweight “Grim” Brett Rogers (10-0), CBS continues its vigorous media push to make the primetime network broadcast a success.

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Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi (22-2-1)  held his final training session Monday in Europe before leaving Tuesday for the United States for his matchup versus “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (6-4) at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates 33 miles northwest of Chicago November 7.

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Fighters on DREAM.11’s card weighed-in in Yokohama Monday in advance of Tuesday night’s fight card.  All fighters made the weight limits.

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Lightweight “Crusher” Tatsuya Kawajiri (25-5-2) and “Barracuda” Melchor Manibusan (1-1) will matchup at DREAM 11 in Yokohama October 6, DREAM announced Friday.

Also, “Beast” Bob Sapp (10-5-1) was officially announced as the replacement for injured “Dreamcatcher” Gegard Mousasi (22-2-1) versus “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (6-4) in the Super Hulk tournament and “JZ” Gesias Cavalcante (12-2-1) was officially withdrawn due to injury from his matchup versus Daisuke Nakamura (18-9).  Both moves had been expected.

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“African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou has signed to be “Babalu” Renato Sobral’s (30-8) new opponent, and welterweight Patrick Speight (7-1) will face Brett Cooper (6-3) at Affliction: Day of Reckoning 24 January in Anaheim, CA, the organization announced Thursday.

Sokoudjou, Fighters.com’s tenth-ranked light heavyweight, was recently released from the UFC after his second-round TKO loss to ninth-ranked “Banha” Luis Arthur Cane (7-1) at UFC 89 in October.

Sobral last fought at Strikeforce: Destruction in November, winning Bobby Southworth’s (9-5) light heavyweight title with a referee stoppage due to a cut.

Speight suffered his first career loss in October via unanimous decision to Alex Cisne (4-1) at King of the Cage.

Cooper KO’d Dusty Arden (10-6-1) in round two in June.

Brazilian “Banha” Luis Arthur Cane (9-1) TKO’d Fighters.com’s ninth-ranked light heavyweight “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (5-3) in a second-round barrage ending at 4:15 at UFC 89 in Birmingham Saturday night.

“I was going forward.  Sokoudjou was keeping the distance.  Everyone was expecting Sokoudjou to go forward; but, he was not the aggressor this time,” said “Banha” after the “W”.

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