{"id":310939,"date":"2010-02-12T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-219269:1"},"modified":"2010-02-12T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T13:15:06","slug":"jose-canseco-training-photo-strikeforce-still-doesnt-want-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/310939","title":{"rendered":"Jose Canseco training photo: Strikeforce still doesn’t want him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is really going to happen? Someone may actually help fulfill Jose Canseco’s request for another MMA fight<\/a>? Who else is shocked that a real mixed martial arts gym would offer to work with Canseco? I guess any publicity is good publicity for Cesar Gracie. No, screw that. This can’t possibly be a good thing, can it? The bigger problem comes when a legitimate promotion throws the sport’s integrity out the window to make some short term proift. Strikeforce will take a massive P.R. hit if it chooses to bring in the clown prince of sportsmen, right? <\/p>\n

Canseco, 45, might deliver a nice television rating but at what cost? This will only further the awful stereotypes about the sport. That said, there’s so sense in remaining in a state of denial. You have to believe there’s something to Canseco’s tweet about meeting with officials from the promotion.  <\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong> Strikeforce P.R. whiz Mike Afromowitz indicated to Bloody Elbow that Canseco fibbed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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"We are not meeting with Jose and he will not be fighting Herschel
\nWalker," said Afromowitz.<\/p>\n

Bloody Elbow says, not much more speculating one can do on the "will they\/won’t they" aspect of
\nWalker\/Canseco in Strikeforce. It’s not happening, and Jose did not meet with
\nany Strikeforce reps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Check out the look on the faces of the Diaz brothers, Nate (on Canseco’s left<\/em>) and Nick (on the right<\/em>). <\/p>\n

Gracie indicated that he can turn Canseco into a real fighter in three months. That takes hard work. When has Canseco ever shown that he would go the distance and not take a shortcut? In MMA, there are no shortcuts. All the performance enhancing drugs in the world won’t help your fight technique and stamina.<\/p>\n

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This is really going to happen? Someone may actually help fulfill Jose Canseco’s request for another MMA fight? Who else is shocked that a real mixed martial arts gym would offer to work with Canseco? I guess any publicity is good publicity for Cesar Gracie. No, screw that. This can’t possibly be a good thing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310939","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=310939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}