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Although we saw one of the most brutal finishes this year come from the elbows of Nate Marquardt to Tyron Woodley last Saturday night at Strikeforce:<\/p>\n
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Rockhold vs. Kennedy, how relevant is Strikeforce to the MMA world right now.\u00a0 The televised portion of the night opened with Davenport native, \u201cRuthless\u201d Robbie Lawler facing Lorenz Larkin.\u00a0 This was Larkin\u2019s first cut down to middleweight and after weathering an early storm from Lawler, Larkin pushed the pace to a unanimous decision win.\u00a0 Someone should tell \u201cThe Dean of Mean\u201d Keith Jardine that it may be time to call it quits as Roger Gracie took Jardine down at will for the first two rounds of their fight.\u00a0 Jardine had no answer for Gracie\u2019s high caliber ground game as Roger went on to win unanimously over Jardine.\u00a0 The co-main event could have easily been the main event of the night as fast rising star, Tyron Woodley stepped up to take on Nate Marquardt.\u00a0 This was the first fight for Marquardt since being dropped by the UFC earlier this year for testing high in his levels of testosterone.\u00a0 This was also his first time cutting down to 170lbs.\u00a0 The fight went back and forth in rounds one through three but it was in the fourth round that Marquardt pushed Woodley up against the cage, landing a huge elbow, stunning Woodley and after another elbow and an uppercut, Woodley dropped as the ref jumped in to stop the fight.\u00a0 In the night\u2019s main event, Tim Kennedy finally got his middleweight title shot against recently crowned, Luke Rockhold.\u00a0 It was a lackluster fight at best as neither fighter looked to go in for the kill.\u00a0 Rockhold did attempt a few spinning backhands and kicks but had no power behind them.\u00a0 Kennedy pushed the pace in the later rounds, even getting the back of Rockhold a few times but could not finish.\u00a0 Rockhold would go on to get the unanimous decision win over Kennedy and retained his belt, but most watching had to wonder what would be next for Rockhold.\u00a0 As the UFC seem to be cherry picking the fighters that do well in Strikeforce, the winners from Saturday night, Larkin, Gracie, Marquardt and Rockhold better hope that Dana takes another look at them because there are just not that many more high profile fights left for them in the Strikeforce organization.<\/p>
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