An update for those of you who are either fans of Josh Barnett or interested in knowing where his fight career may be heading. Earlier this year, Barnett turned down an offer that the UFC made him to fight which would have offered him…
It looks like the dreams of fight fans wanting to see “The Warmaster” make his triumphant return to the octagon have been inevitably crushed. Recently declining an offer made to him by the UFC, Josh Barnett will no doubt be looking for employment elsewhere…
Multi-time MMA champion Josh Barnett will not fight in the UFC. At least for now.
According to Barnett’s manager, The Warmaster was unable to reach terms…
Whether he likes it or not Josh Barnett has pretty much been MMA’s unofficial Heavyweight journeyman for over a decade now. The last time he fought in the UFC he became Heavyweight champion…
Many a fight fan were disappointed to see “The Warmaster” Josh Barnett left off the list of Strikeforce fighters making the move to the…
Josh Barnett will fight his final bout for Strikeforce on Saturday, and beyond that, his future remains uncertain. Much has been made of his checkered…
MMA fans have been writing off “The Warmaster” Josh Barnett for quite some time now. They wrote him off when he was stripped of the…
Daniel Cormier broke his right hand when he knocked out Antonio Silva in September 2011. Last night he broke it again in his Strikeforce fight with Josh Barnett. In fact, he and Josh Barnett fought most of their five-round war in the cage with broken hands as Barnett broke his left hand early in the first round.
Barnett posted on Twitter this morning:
Here’s what happened in the first :30…still threw it though. Of course that might not have so wise LOL. twitpic.com/9nc4yk
— Josh Barnett
Daniel Cormier seems to be supremely confident heading into his Strikeforce World Heavyweight Grand Prix Final bout with Josh Barnett tomorrow night. Cormier has a right to be confident, but he is indeed facing a man who has 31 wins to his his name and has not lost since he last fought Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira in 2006. Still, Cormier thinks that, although Barnett is a masterful submission technician, the game of MMA is starting to pass him by, and all of the wars he’s participated in will
In a recent interview with MMA Weekly, when asked about a return to the UFC, Josh Barnett said, “I’d love to go over there and beat everybody up and sit on top of that pile too. I believe I’m the best heavyweight out there in the world, so what better way to prove it than to punch everybody else in the face first”.
On a conference call today with Showtime and Strikeforce about the Strikeforce® Heavyweight Grand Prix Final scheduled for May 19, Barnett indicated other plans, which did not
