Cung Le has decided to resign as the Strikeforce middleweight champion and has relinquished his belt. Strikeforce CEO, Scott Coker, confirmed the news to MMAWeekly.com earlier this evening.
Le has agreed to a part in another major motion picture and feels his commitments with the movie will limit him in training and further elongate the time frame that he can defend his title. Jason “Mayhem” Miller and Jake Shields will compete on the November 7th show headlined by Fedor Emelianenko vs Brett Rogers.
Source: MMAWeekly.com
it’s the right thing to do,strikeforce should have made this decision ages ago.keeping the belt on a guy who aint fighting isnt good buisness at all.not when you have good talent at mw to fight for the belt.ufc could pick cung le up now he has no ties with strikeforce.that is what i would like to see.
I would not like 2 see him in the UFC IF…IF he’s gonna be a movie star instead of a fighter. Randy did movies, he fights…Roger Huerta, DON’T GET ME STARTED WITH HIM!!!…Chuck, GSP, RAmpage, Jardine have all made appearances and still continued to commit to fighting. Chung Le would be very interesting in the UFC but not until he’s ready 2 fight.
Honorable move by Cung Le. This guy is an awesome fighter, but if he’s having opportunities elswhere, more power to him, and to whoever steps up and takes the Strikeforce middleweight belt.
Yeah, it was the right move for Le to make, a little later than I feel he should have, but whatever, I have no real business criticizing a guy like that on his business decisions. Mayhem/Shields is a great fight, very tough to call I think. They are both good enough grapplers to avoid being submitted by the other guy, and I would probably give the kickboxing edge to Mayhem at this point. I think this fight will go to decision, and the guy who dominates the positions on the ground will take it, just not sure which one that is yet.