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Sherdog.com will report from the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas at approximately 9 p.m. ET with play-by-play and live results of Strikeforce Challengers 20, which is headlined by a light heavyweight clash between Antwain Britt and Lumumba Sayers.
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LAS VEGAS – MMAjunkie.com was on scene and reporting live from today’s official Strikeforce Challengers 20 fighter weigh-ins.
Today’s festivities took place at The Pearl Theater at the Palms Casino
Rest in Las Vegas. The same Sin City resort plays host to Friday’s
event, which includes a main card that airs on Showtime.
Main-event fighters Antwain Britt (184) and Lumumba Sayers (185), as
well as co-feature females Julia Budd (146) and Ronda Rousey (146), all
made weight on their first attempt.
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The Strikeforce Challengers 20 headliner will move forward as planned, as both Antwain Britt and Lumumba Sayers hit their contracted weights on Thursday.
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James Reese (pictured) will step up on short notice to face Bobby Green at Strikeforce Challengers 20, promotion officials announced Tuesday. Reese replaces an injured Isaac Vallie-Flagg, who withdrew from the Nov. 18 event last week due to injury.
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Strikeforce lightweight Bobby Green now has an opponent for his fight Friday at Strikeforce Challengers 20.
The promotion today announced that newcomer James “J.P” Reese will step in for an injured Isaac Vallie-Flagg to fight Green on the preliminary card of Strikeforce Challengers
20.
Strikeforce Challengers 20 takes place Friday at The Pearl at the Palms
Casino in Las Vegas. Main-card fights air live on Showtime.
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The year’s final Strikeforce Challengers event takes place this week, and fans are invited to Thursday’s officials fighter weigh-ins.
Strikeforce Challengers 20 weigh-ins take place at the Key West Ballroom at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.
The first fighter is on the scale at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT local time).
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Today just might be an up-and-coming lightweight’s lucky day.
MMAjunkie.com has learned from sources close to
Isaac Vallie-Flagg that the Team Jackson-Winkeljohn
product has been forced out of a planned Strikeforce Challengers 20
matchup with Bobby Green.
While the promotion has yet to make an official announcement, a search is currently underway to find a replacement opponent.
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A new welterweight contest has been added to the Strikeforce Challengers 20 bill, as promotion officials Thursday announced that Quinn Mulhern will lock horns with David Hulett at the Nov. 18 event.
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Next week’s Strikeforce Challengers 20 event apparently has a new addition.
In recent tweet, former King of the Cage champion Quinn Mulhern said he’s “officially” fighting fellow welterweight David Hulett at the event.
Strikeforce officials have not announced the fight, and MMAjunkie.com could not immediately confirm the bout.
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Next week in the Strikeforce Challengers 20 headliner, Antwain Britt returns from a yearlong layoff while hoping to snap a two-fight losing skid with his debut in a new weight class.
Prior to the break from MMA, he admits a busy schedule had him suffering from burnout.
But time away from the sport did him well, and he recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio he’s heading into Friday’s Showtime-televised event with a renewed sense of passion.
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