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Fightmania December Rankings: December exemplified the rest of 2011, meaning that there were plenty of big events, along with some surprising results and dominant performances, too. While some fighters, such as Jon Jones, have a firm grasp on the top [+] Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal Parting Shots: Another Strikeforce event is in the books, and with a new Showtime deal in place it will apparently be far from the last. It’s only appropriate that the promotion’s best remaining fighter, Gilbert Melendez, led us out [+] Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal Live Blog: Join us tonight at 10:30 ET/9:30 CT for a live blog covering Strikeforce’s “Melendez vs. Masvidal” event. I will be here providing my take on the fights themselves as well as seemingly random observations about everything else [+] Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal Preview: With apologies to Luke Rockhold, Gilbert Melendez is Strikeforce’s last big name champion. His contemporaries, Alistair Overeem, Dan Henderson and Nick Diaz, have already left for the UFC, so fans can be excused for thinking the writing [+] Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley Parting Shots: Strikeforce’s last event until June went off with a bang, as all but one main card fight ended in the first round last Saturday night. In the title matches, it was business as usual as both [+] Strikeforce: Keith Jardine Post-Fight Interview (Video): Keith Jardine talks about the majority draw decision with his fight with Gegard Mousasi at Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley event this weekend. [+] Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley Preview: Shortly here, Strikeforce will promote their first major event since Zuffa purchased them recently, as Nick Diaz will take on Paul Daley in a welterweight title defense. Meanwhile, plenty of other quality action will be on [+] Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson Parting Shots: A busy week for our sport of choice ended last weekend with another solid Strikeforce show, this time headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between then-champion Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante and Dan Henderson. Of course, Henderson [+] K-1 and Dream End 2010 Memorably: K-1 and Dream’s “Dynamite!” event may have surpassed Sengoku’s in every respect, though: in terms of spectacle, sport, and ridiculous subtitle (Dynamite’s was “Power of Courage 2010″, while Sengoku’s was “Soul of Fight”). K-1 and Dream [+] Fightmania September Rankings: It seems like just as much action took place outside of competition as it did inside the ring or cage this month, with plenty of top ten fighters making the news for reasons other than their performance. [+]