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4:00 AM on 11.07.2009, Nick Chester

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EA signs Strikeforce for upcoming MMA title photo

#EA Sports #Electronic Arts #PS3 #Xbox 360

The headline of this story basically says it all, but since I admittedly know little about the world of mixed martial arts, I turned to another source -- friend and Destructoid reader, Kevvo.

"What the f*ck is Strikeforce?" I asked him, via text message.

"Haha, UFC's competition," he replied. "Why?"

EA Sports, I explained, had signed with Strikeforce to appear in its upcoming mixed martial arts title, EA Sports MMA. Knowing he was a fan of sports like UFC, I asked him if he thought this was a big deal.

"Put it this way," he tells me. "If the Nintendo DS is the UFC, then the PSPgo is Strikeforce," he explains. I asked him to clarify -- does this mean that Strikeforce has better graphics and crappier battery life, but you can control UFC president Dana White with a stylus? He doesn't answer.

"They really only have one or two fighters worth watching," he continues.

"Do those guys happen to be Brett Rogers and Jake Shields? Because those two are signed on for EA Sports MMA," I tell him.

Yes, those are the guys, he says. And I think I've cleared this up rather nicely. EA Sports MMA is scheduled for a 2010 release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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Motorhead36

Cung Le homie

Wade Wood

Fedor Emelianenko is the premier fighter in any organization and as long as he's signed to strikeforce they'll make stiff competition for UFC.
by the way, the sport is Mixed Martial Arts, not UFC.
thats like calling boxing Don King, UFC is just a promotion.

kevvo

yea, Fedor is really all they have, look at most polls the majority of the top ranked fighters in the world are in the UFC. Ill try this game out, I really want to see how they work out the gameplay. I thought THQ did a good job overall, especially with the ground game in Undisputed. Hopefully this will bring about good competition like 2k did years ago for football. However there isn't enough big name fighters outside of Fedor to make me care too much about this game.

kevvo

And my pspgo ds comparision. PsP(strikeforce) has a few quality games(i.e fighters) here and there, looks good too, but the DS(UFC) has a bigger install base, overall better selection of games(i.e. fighters) that most people want to see, and appeals to both casual and hardcore fans.

I dont want to start a flame war, I like both equally, its just that the DS(UFC) is the most easily accessible, and you cant deny theres quality.

Was hard to text this to nickwhile driving through traffic....

MCChampaignMillionaire

EA MMA will suck against Undisputed 2...

Joe Mcguffog

"Ground game" sounds like something that could also be used in a porn movie

TheWeaponeer

Gegard Mousasi and Fedor Emelianenko are sad from the lack of respect here. And do not worry - unlike the UFC game, this game will actually have Randy Couture in it...

Strikeforce also works hand in hand with DREAM in Japan, and they have some good fighters too. This is just the start for EA MMA, because signing a deal with Strikeforce will also allow them to use the WOMEN fighters on the roster too. That is going to be a bullet point for this title by early next year I am willing to bet.

But do not take my word for it, WATCH FOR YOURSELF tonight because they are having a fight card on CBS primetime. It should be a good show, and Nick can watch it under the guise of "research" for this web site haha.

GSO Burzum

His chest looks like nursing home tits.

Klipsched

He pities the fool that doesn't buy his game.

Polymath

"They really only have one or two fighters worth watching,"

Yeah, because Fedor, Mousasi, "Mayhem" Miller, Werdum and Overeem are nobodys...

Holiday

More images of grown men rolling around each other try to take off the other guy's underwear.

zer0faults

Without UFC this game has no ability to sell. Strikeforce is just too desperate to sell that they would make a game with a company that bashed MMA as a whole is pathetic. They gave the keys of the kingdom over to Fedor, its hard when everyone knows you have the second best cast of fighters.

@Polymath - Probably because Fedor is the only one you mentioned that anyone knows.

zeroword

Here is a few more fighters "worth watching" - Fedor Emelianenko, Gegard Mousasi, Shinya Aoki, Mitsuhiro Ishida, Gilbert Melendez, Josh Thompson, Fabricio Verdum. Next time don't ask newb MMA fans.

zeroword

That's not all of the good fighters they have access to btw.

Also note that EA Sports MMA will also have Randy Couture as they signed him before he returned to the UFC.

With the DREAM alliance there are a lot of good matchups Strikeforce can make. That said, the UFC at this point still has the best fighters.

akathatoneguy

I was going to list some fighters but I got beat to the proverbial punch. I don't remember anyone mentioning Nick Diaz, though. Also, it's true that Fedor is the best heavyweight in the world, but he's never proven to be a draw. Several of the promotions he fought for recently are now dead...doesn't exactly testify to his popularity. Though, maybe the exposure on CBS will change that...we'll see.

akathatoneguy

Oh, and Robbie Lawler! Can't forget him. Being able to (I assume) create a female to fight in the game wll be sweet, too.

AdamantiumHip

fedor is overrated. He dodged the UFC's offer because he knew he would get smashed by Brock Lesnar and quite a few other UFC heavyweights too (Mir, Carwin, Velasquez)

and lol at wade. strikeforce is NO WHERE near as profitible as ufc, doesn't get the buy rates or ratings, and is nowhere near as well known. It's not any sort of real competition for ufc, never mind ''stiff'' competition.

akathatoneguy

You're right, Strikeforce isn't a danger to the UFC. About Fedor, though, how exactly do you claim to know what led to his decision? Anyone who knows MMA knows the negotiations broke down because his sleazy manager insisted on copromoting any events that Fedor headlined with the UFC. Fedor wasn't scared to fight top competition in Pride...you think now all of a sudden he is???

levkar

well they just signed black lesnar... i mean bobby lashley to strikeforce. so that'll give them at least some recognition.

akathatoneguy

Lashley hasn't signed with Strikeforce. There have been talks, but nothing official has happened. His part-time wrestling with TNA may be a hitch, too. Plus, it's not as if he has the name recognition that Lesnar had.

Strikeforce is mostly doing things the right way- building slowly around talented, marketable young fighters and with the advantage of having the only serious women's division in North America. Co-promoting with M-1 Global to sign Fedor may have been a bad choice, but we'll see. That rat Finkelstein who represents Fedor is not a good man to be in business with, period.

Anthony Mangiarciana

AdamantiumHip, please put down the crack pipe before talking about MMA.

MCChampaignMillionaire

Strikeforce is basically the small, ugly cousin of the UFC? xD

kevvo

@zeroword Newb MMA fans? riiight dude, seriously outside of fedor there isnt really anyone else on their roster you will break your bank for a PPV for, if you think thompson or verdum are worth a 50 dollar buy your nuts. And I am not saying that they dont have good fighters, but there is no one outside of fedor that I will go out of my way to see.

RoBoSexual

@adamantiumnhip
Frank Mir couldn't beat a cold let alone Fedor. Stay off the drugs my friend and respect an MMA Monster when you see one!

Aurain

Ben Rothwell shows why Divisions outside the UFC don't get much respect.

Losing to Cain Velasquez, who is far from the real deal at HW, so convincingly at 104 shows that being good means nothing if it's in the UFC.

Fedor isn't in the UFC because he doesn't want to lose. I have little doubts Carwin or Lesnar would knock him out.

akathatoneguy

Sorry, Aurain, but one fighter losing to another proves NOTHING about the quality of every other fighter not under UFC contract. Even common logic shows the ineptitude of such a statement. Brock Lesnar walked into the UFC after a fight with K-1. Was he not good before coming into the UFC? Nogueira has done quite well in the UFC, and he came from Pride. There is not a fighter on the UFC's roster who has had all of his professional fights in the UFC, which means that they were once all talented fighters outside of the UFC, does it not?

It's amazing that people like you think that a man who willingly fought Nogueira multiple times, including when he was the #1 heavyweight in the world, is now going out of his way to duck Shane fucking Carwin. Give me a break.

akathatoneguy

And besides that, any MMA fan worth his/her salt knows that styles make fights. Velasquez is a very talented wrestler, which happens to be one of Rothwell's weak points. This matchup was a bad one for Rothwell from the get-go. How a good wrestler beating a good striker with sub-par wrestling can somehow be turned into a "the only good fighters are in the UFC" manifesto is beyond me.

I think people like yourself want to believe there is no talent outside of the UFC simply because you are ignorant of the sport outside of that particular organization. If you say there are no good fighters outside of the UFC, then you're not missing anything, right? And then you're also not a fan with barely any knowledge of the sport, too.

Unfortunately, you're wrong, and there is plenty of talent outside of the UFC. Even Dana White knows that. If Fedor sucked, why did he offer him a contract that was supposedly better than what they were paying anyone else in the division? Certainly it wasn't because Fedor is a widely popular fighter, because he's not.

Chortles

Oh no... this has devolved into a UFC vs. Strikeforce/Fedor argument. *groan*

As far as I'm concerned, I hope this has a better engine in terms of what I can do in the game than UFC 2009, and that the create-a-fighter will let me recreate any UFC fighters I want to fantasy-fight. Can you say diving punch KO?

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