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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 [+] Fightmania Mailbag: Cain-JDS, Emelianenko brothers: It’s been too long, my friends, and now we will finally have another edition of the mailbag with topics including last week’s UFC debut on Fox, Fedor’s post-Strikeforce career and more. We’ll get started with a couple [+] Strikeforce Champs vs. UFC Champs?: During last Saturday’s Strikeforce show, I was more than a little surprised to hear play-by-play announcer Mauro Ranallo talk about the possibility of Strikeforce’s best facing the UFC’s champs. The sentiment was repeated in a more [+] 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: Gilbert Melendez Post-Fight Interview (Video): Strikeforce Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez talks about his win over Tatsuya Kawajiri at the 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 [+] And Then There Were Three: It’s easy to take for granted that the top fighter in the world in each weight class usually receives checks from Zuffa. While there have been notable exceptions over the years (such as Fedor Emelianenko for [+] Assessing the Damage from the Strikeforce Brawl: As a person who enjoys the entertainment that comes from seeing crazy, random or absolutely ridiculous things, I was torn immediately after viewing the now-infamous Strikeforce: Nashville brawl.  On one hand, it was unquestionably the most riveting [+]