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Strikeforce mixed martial arts event in 2012 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier was a mixed martial arts event held by Strikeforce. It took place on May 19, 2012, at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.[1][2]
| Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) The poster for Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier | ||||
| Promotion | Strikeforce | |||
| Date | May 19, 2012 | |||
| Venue | HP Pavilion | |||
| City | San Jose, California, United States | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Nate Marquardt was expected to fight Tyron Woodley at this event for the vacant Strikeforce Welterweight Championship.[3] It instead took place at Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Kennedy, where Marquardt won the title by fourth-round knockout.
| Main card (Showtime) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Daniel Cormier | def. | Josh Barnett | Decision (unanimous) (49–46, 50–45, 50–45) | 5 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 1] |
| Lightweight | Gilbert Melendez (c) | def. | Josh Thomson | Decision (split) (47–48, 48–47, 48–47) | 5 | 5:00 | [lower-alpha 2] |
| Light Heavyweight | Rafael Cavalcante | vs. | Mike Kyle | No Contest (overturned) | 1 | 0:33 | [lower-alpha 3] |
| Welterweight | Chris Spång | def. | Nah-Shon Burrell | TKO (knees) | 1 | 3:25 | |
| Preliminary card (Showtime Extreme) | |||||||
| Lightweight | Isaac Vallie-Flagg | def. | Gesias Cavalcante | Decision (split) (29–28, 29–28, 28–29) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Bobby Green | def. | James Terry | Decision (split) (28–29, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Quinn Mulhern | def. | Yuri Villefort | Decision (split) (30–27, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Gian Villante | def. | Derrick Mehmen | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Guto Inocente | def. | Virgil Zwicker | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Fedor Emelianenko | 2 | |||||||||
 Antônio Silva | TKO | |||||||||
| Antônio Silva | 1 | |||||||||
 Daniel Cormier** | KO | |||||||||
 Alistair Overeem | UD | |||||||||
| Fabrício Werdum | 3 | |||||||||
| Daniel Cormier | UD | |||||||||
| Josh Barnett | 5 | |||||||||
 Andrei Arlovski | 1 | |||||||||
| Sergei Kharitonov | KO | |||||||||
| Sergei Kharitonov | 1 | |||||||||
| Josh Barnett | SUB | |||||||||
| Josh Barnett | SUB | |||||||||
| Brett Rogers | 2 | |||||||||
** = Replacement
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