{"id":251232,"date":"2010-01-30T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-216634:1"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:05:21","slug":"strikeforce-interview-hieron-passed-on-zaromskis-for-riggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/251232","title":{"rendered":"Strikeforce interview: Hieron passed on Zaromskis for Riggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YBzY60MX99c&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Jay Hieron has been hunting Nick Diaz. Unfortunately Diaz&#8217;s issue with marijuana and state commissions screwed Hieron out of the opportunity to shoot for the Strikeforce welterweight belt during 2009. So when Hieron was offered a shot to fight DREAM 170 champ Marius Zaromskis, he had to wrestle with the consequences of a loss. Hieron and his manager Ken Pavia, decided Zaromskis wasn&#8217;t a big enough name in the U.S. to risk a fight against the emerging Lithuanian star. Joe Riggs is a better name in the states and a win over the veteran puts Hieron in line for a Diaz fight in Strikeforce or an exit to the UFC. Watch Hieron when he talks about his contract. He suggests that he&#8217;s unaware of whether he has one or two fights left on the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Hieron has been hunting Nick Diaz. Unfortunately Diaz&#8217;s issue with marijuana and state commissions screwed Hieron out of the opportunity to shoot for the Strikeforce welterweight belt during 2009. So when Hieron was offered a shot to fight DREAM 170 champ Marius Zaromskis, he had to wrestle with the consequences of a loss. Hieron [&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-251232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251232","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=251232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}