Fedor’s Strikeforce debut will take place on November 7th on CBS against Brett Rogers. Still no venue announced. Gus Johnson, Mauro Ranallo and Frank Shamrock will call the action. More info as we get it.

As has been extensively reported over the past few weeks, Versus–the TV home of the NHL, WEC and other sports–has been in a money dispute with DirecTV and as of 9/1/09 they pulled the plug on the network. Here’s the story from USA TODAY’s sports business column:
Manufacturers and retailers — including those peddling TV [...]

A few people asked why Butterbean didn’t throw his name into the fray to take Josh Barnett’s place in the ill fated Affliction: Trilogy fight against Fedor Emelianenko. We’re thinking that he would have had he not been otherwise engaged this past weekend, fighting in Korea at the second event of the upstart MXM [...]