Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives
Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives (also called the Strikeforce Tournament Series) was a mixed martial arts event held at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on November 16, 2007. The event was hosted by Strikeforce in conjunction with bodogFight, and was streamed live on Yahoo! Sports. The event held two distinctions in that: 1) it contained the first MMA tournament sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission and 2) Strikeforce's heavyweight champion was determined during the event in a non-tournament fight.
| Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives | ||||
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 The poster for Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives. | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Strikeforce | |||
| Date | November 16, 2007 | |||
| Venue | HP Pavilion at San Jose | |||
| City | San Jose, California | |||
| Attendance | 7,249 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Tournament Rules
The tournament was a four-man, single-elimination tournament. Each bracket consisted of two five-minute rounds, with a third round being fought in the case of a tie.[1]
Results
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Alistair Overeem | def. | Paul Buentello | Submission (knees to the body) | 2 | 3:42 | [lower-alpha 1] |
| Middleweight | Cung Le | def. | Sammy Morgan | TKO (body kick) | 3 | 1:58 | |
| Middleweight Tournament Final | |||||||
| Middleweight | Jorge Santiago | def. | Trevor Prangley | TKO (knee to the body) | 1 | 2:31 | |
| Middleweight Tournament Semi-finals | |||||||
| Middleweight | Trevor Prangley | def. | Falaniko Vitale | Decision (referee decision) | 2 | 2:12 | |
| Middleweight | Jorge Santiago | def. | Sean Salmon | KO (flying knee) | 1 | 0:24 | |
| Preliminary card | |||||||
| Middleweight | Lemont Davis | def. | Brian Schwartz | Decision (unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Anthony Ruiz | def. | Bobby Southworth | TKO (doctor stoppage) | 2 | 0:52 | |
| Welterweight | Luke Stewart | def. | Bryson Kamaka | KO (knee) | 1 | 0:19 | |
| Middleweight | Eric Lawson | def. | Josh Neal | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 2 | 0:20 | |
| Bantamweight | Anthony Figueroa | def. | Peter Sabala | Decision (split) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Alex Crispin | def. | Clint Coronel | Decision (unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight | Chris Drumm | vs. | Evan Esguerra | NC (punch to back of the head) | 2 | 2:35 | |
| Middleweight | Dennis Hallman | def. | Jeremiah Metcalf | Submission (heel hook) | 1 | 1:39 | |
- For the Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship.
Middleweight Tournament Results
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| 1 | Jorge Santiago | W | |||||||
| 4 | Sean Salmon | ||||||||
| Jorge Santiago | W | ||||||||
| Trevor Prangley | |||||||||
| 3 | Falaniko Vitale | ||||||||
| 2 | Trevor Prangley | W | |||||||
References
- "Strikeforce Tournament". MMA Junkie. Retrieved 2007-11-17.
External links
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