Silva has to get by Thales first!!!Thales has very underrated striking and some of the best BJJ!!As far as Cung Le he needs to pick whether he IS HE A FIGHTER OR AN ACTOR?

Cung WHO??? Yeah, the guy that WINS the title THEN does NOT fight for ANOTHER 18 months....That guy. Must be sad, that fighters have control over the organization that pays their paycheck. If that were the UFC, I dont care if it were Dana's son, Chuck Liddell, Anderson Silva, or ANYONE....they WOULD NOT be allowed to win the belt, then take off 18 months to pursue another career, then come back WHENEVER he feels like and/or he got bored of filming.
HORSE [profane]!!

Cofield, your blogs on this site have rarely been interesting or informative ... and lately your rather lame contributions have become rather redundant, especially since Maggie's arrival. Many people would question why Yahoo Sports keeps you on board as such, since you contribute little of interesting here, and next to nothing over at the boxing blog.

Cung Le vs. Silvia would be a hell of a fight!

Cung Le:
Sanshou Fighter.
Terrible Actor.
Big Dreamer.

#7 Thats funny...and true

Cung Le vs Anderson Silva would be a fantastic fight, only if Le prepared for it. By that I mean he would have to give up the movie business. Fighting at that level the only thing you can do is, train and fight 24/7. Look what happened to Chuck when he started doing the Hollywood thing, he lost his focus and lost fights to people he should have beat in his sleep! Le should learn from this. Silva is the best MMA fighter in the world and Le must understand
to have any chance at all, he must train like his life depends on it! Once Dana figures out how huge
this fight could be I think Strikeforce and UFC could get by the politics,maybe a 3 fight deal with Le in the UFC, then Le and Silva.For all the fans that want to see this, Dana, make it happen!

yes clevelandsteamer that is funnier it would be even funny if you ended your posts with clevelandsteamer out

i beat up diaz and he would never admit it.it happened outside a bar when i stole his taco!

Are you an actor or a fighter choose one Cunge Le!! Your full of it!!

He's acting because he wants to try something different guys. He's proved himself plenty as a fighter, maybe not an MMA fighter, but he has had a storied fighting career in all levels and in many styles. Can't blame the guy for wanting to play around with acting and having a bit of fun in life outside of fighting every once in awhile. It's like MJ and baseball, yeah she sucked at it, but it's his personal choice. These guys don't live and breathe just to fight for US, they're not some sort of entertainment animal built around to meet our enjoyment.
Anyways back to fighting, Cung Le would do fine against Anderson if it was stand up, but even though Le is learning BJJ, Anderson obviously has as much advantage on the ground as Le is to standing up and seeing how fights can easily hit the ground a lot faster than stay stand up. I'm a Fan of Le but I have to give the fight to A.S. I'm calling it due to style, and not because of pressure or lack of training. I hardly think Le would crack under pressure fighting Anderson or misjudge how much training he needs to fight a match of such caliber. Unlike many others Le's fought huge matches in Sanshou already, I would assume he would just take it as just another big fight.

I doubt A.S. can hang with Le striking, but it'll go to the ground and the Spider will dominate him there. Add the distractions and Le only has a "punchers chance". A slim one at that.

I guess Cofield talking about a fighter/actor is a step up from waiting for Dana to offend someone. I mean it's way more important that any other MMA news out there.

this guy is not a champion, you gotta defend the belt to be a champ.

i would love to fight this guy,i would teach him a lesson without rules,i would crush the little asian dude...

Cung Le is a good fighter, and he's a big draw for Strikeforce. I doubt they'll let him go easily. In that regard, playing up the idea of him fighting Anderson Silva is putting the cart before the horse.

Le should either put he belt up before then or be stripped of it. It's been over a year as it is....At this point he's nothing more than a paper champion. Strikeforce has allowed him to hold the belt much too long without defending it. Time to put up or shut up Cung!

i agree with 22, he's not getting younger, he's not sutpid for not choosing cage over camera, look at Chuck Liddell, he 's fighting hard at 40 and people still diss him, Chuck is dreaming for some movie roles right now.

let the games begin....is all i say. we want to see the champ vs champ...le vs. anderson....obviously whoever loose their organzation may loose a butt load of ratings....meaning $$$$................so does it makes good sense to fight champ vs. champ?
maybe maybe not so good for promotion. one down one up.