{"id":248712,"date":"2010-01-29T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-216614:1"},"modified":"2010-01-29T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T01:56:09","slug":"walker-and-lashley-ready-for-their-strikeforce-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248712","title":{"rendered":"Walker and Lashley ready for their Strikeforce debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__16\/ept_sports_mma_experts-446626077-1264806037.jpg?ymVyPmCDkF_QUeVo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their goals are different but&nbsp;the risk is still huge for both Herschel Walker and Bobby Lashley.&nbsp;Walker is&nbsp;risking serious injury&nbsp;fighting in&nbsp;a pro mixed martial arts fight at&nbsp;47-years-old. He has no false expectations. Walker knows he&#8217;ll never be a champion but that&#8217;s not the case with Lashley. He&#8217;s hoping for a fight against the world&#8217;s best, Fedor Emelianenko, down the road. He&#8217;ll face&nbsp;the toughest test of his career in&nbsp;6-foot-10, 258-pound Wes Sims.<\/p>\n<p>The photo above was the first time 26-year-old Greg Nagy had met Walker. The football legend said the kid was a little intimidated. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Strikeforce: Miami&quot; weigh-ins were today at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. All the main card fighters&nbsp;made weight. <\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__16\/ept_sports_mma_experts-359432327-1264832149.jpg?ymVKWmCDPPSE214o\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SHOWTIME TELEVISED CARD (<\/strong><em>weights courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/news\/17731\/strikeforce-miami-live-and-official-weigh-in-results-from-sunrise-fla-.mma\" >MMAJunkie<\/a><\/em><strong>):<\/strong> <br \/>Nick Diaz (169.5) vs. Marius Zaromskis (169)&nbsp; <br \/>Cristiane &quot;Cyborg&quot; Santos (144.5) vs. Marloes Coenen (143.75)<a name=\"remaining-content\"><\/a><br \/>Greg Nagy (210.5) vs. Herschel Walker (214.25)<br \/>Robbie Lawler (185.75) vs. Melvin Manhoef (185.75)<br \/>Bobby Lashley (252.25) vs. Wes Sims (258.25)<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRELIMINARY CARD (broadcast on EASportsMMA.com):<br \/><\/strong>Jay Hieron (170.25) vs. Joe Riggs (170.5)<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired):<br \/><\/strong>Pablo Alfonso (139.25) vs. Marcos da Matta (139.75)<br \/>Hayder Hassan (170.5) vs. Ryan Keenan (168)<br \/>Sabah Homasi (171.5) vs. John Kelly (170.5)<br \/>Michael Byrnes (154.5) vs. David Zitnik (154)<br \/>David Gomez (144.5) vs. Craig Oxley (144.75)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their goals are different but&nbsp;the risk is still huge for both Herschel Walker and Bobby Lashley.&nbsp;Walker is&nbsp;risking serious injury&nbsp;fighting in&nbsp;a pro mixed martial arts fight at&nbsp;47-years-old. He has no false expectations. Walker knows he&#8217;ll never be a champion but that&#8217;s not the case with Lashley. He&#8217;s hoping for a fight against the world&#8217;s best, Fedor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}