Additions to Strikeforce: ShoMMA

Though the Strikeforce: Challengers Series event will certainly be overshadowed by the first appearance of Fedor Emelianenko on CBS, as he takes on undefeated top ten heavyweight Brett Rogers, MMA Opinion will be offering live coverage of the event, so it is worth posting that there have been some additions to the card. Admittedly, the report filed by MMAJunkie is a little late, as the matchup between Zoila Frausto (3-0 MMA) and Elisha Helspur (1-0 MMA) has been noted on the Strikeforce website for a while now, as have a few others.

Central Valley natives Billy Evangelista (9-0-0-1 MMA), Anthony Ruiz (22-13 MMA), Cole Escovedo (12-4 MMA), Frausto and Ben Holscher (3-0 MMA) will all get the local crowd ready to go, especially Evangestlista, who received what was initially a DQ loss against Mike Aina on the last card, before the decision was overturned by CSAC.

The card, at the moment, looks like this:

Main Card

Billy Evangelista vs. Jorge Gurgel (13-5 MMA, 3-4 UFC)

Brandon Cash (4-0 MMA) vs. Shane Del Rosario (8-0 MMA)

Luke Rockhold (5-1 MMA) vs. Jesse Taylor (13-4 MMA)

Ousmane Thomas Diagne (1-0 MMA) vs. Merrit Warren (1-4 MMA)*

Zoila Frausto vs. Elisha Helspur

Undercard

Johnny Goh (1-2 MMA) vs. Ben Holscher

Casey Olsen (10-3 MMA) vs. Chris Culley (4-5 MMA)

Anthony Ruiz vs. TBA

Cole Escovedo vs. TBA

Rico Altamirano (2-2 MMA) vs. Luke Riddering (1-0 MMA)