Nate Marquardt is your new Strikeforce welterweight champion!

Nate Marquardt is your new Strikeforce welterweight champion!

Nate Marquardt is your new Strikeforce welterweight champion!

Jason Nawara

Jul 14 |19:43

Last Updated on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:11

Wow. Just, wow. If you didn't enjoy the hell out of that Strikeforce welterweight title fight, you're sadly jaded, my friend. That was awesome. Tyron Woodley did not come to grapple, he came to friggin' fight, and after four rounds the dust settles and Nate Marquardt is your new Strikeforce welterweight champion. Whoa!

I can't even count how many times the fight went back and forth. Both fighters rocked each other, with rounds going to both dudes - ultimately Nate Marquardt weathered down T-Wood with superior ring savvy and an accurate standup attack. Then, the fourth round came, and Marquardt knocked out T-Wood with one of the most brilliant combinations of the year, it seriously looked like a videogame. Let's say it again - WOW.

The Strikeforce welterweight title is cursed with awesome fights.

Thanks to Zombie Prophet for the .gif.

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+61 # Guest 2012-07-14 20:05

Would love to see T Woodley's mom after that K.O

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+29 # Guest 2012-07-15 00:29

Yeah, I wasn't sure who I was gonna root for in this fight, and then I saw Tyrone's mother in the crowd.

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+40 # benny 2012-07-15 07:20

Thank God Nate shut her the fuck up.

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+15 # Guest 2012-07-15 08:25

This guy, right here! (everyone else is afraid to say it)

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+15 # Guest 2012-07-15 10:55

Im sure everyone with the misfortune of having to sit next to such an inconsiderate idiot was saying it too.

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+18 # Sambro 2012-07-15 10:06

UFC fucked up by gutting this promotion. Way more exciting than the last 3 UFC cards.

The best part was when Tyron faceplants when he's on all 4s.

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+1 # Guest 2012-07-15 10:17

Quoting Joey6:

Would love to see T Woodley's mom after that K.O

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmlzq9WFMU1qaoq1c.gif

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-1 # Guest 2012-07-15 17:27

Quoting guy who lols:

Quoting Joey6:
Would love to see T Woodley's mom after that K.O

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmlzq9WFMU1qaoq1c.gif

LMFAO!

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+42 # Guest 2012-07-14 20:09

Best Walk Away Ko of the year , i could not do better on my Ps3

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+31 # NokkonWud 2012-07-14 20:17

Marquardt looked scarier tonight than he has in any of his Hollywood movies.

And that walk away channelled Mark Hunt levels of awesome.

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+12 # Guest 2012-07-14 20:30

dude anyone see that jason high is taking shit about marquardt on his twitter? LOL marquardt would destroy high

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+13 # Guest 2012-07-14 20:48

he's all amped up because he caught a dude in :26 seconds

easy to talk shit from twitter

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+23 # Guest 2012-07-14 20:38

Nate Marquardt, so hot right now, Nate Marquardt

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-13 # Sidecheckkick 2012-07-14 21:48

he´d lose to chael sonnen again, and he´d definitely lose to anderson silva.

being sf champ right now is a cool thing for up and comers, what does it mean to marquard?

dont get me wrong im not hating on you or marquard, just wondering whats so hot about him right now?

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+15 # Guest 2012-07-14 22:44

You think that you're too cool for school, but I have a newsflash for you Walter Cronkite... you aren't.

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-13 # Hairy Potter 2012-07-14 23:05

Give him the Magnum!

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+6 # Guest 2012-07-14 22:59

Well, good thing he's not in the UFC or at middleweight anymore...

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-13 # Sidecheckkick 2012-07-14 23:16

Well where or at what point did i say he was in ufc or mw? cause i said he cant beat chael or silva? after just 2 fights at ww idk if he stays there for good- some ppl switch their weightclass every couple fights.

anyway welterweight has no silva, but other then that i think it has more talent, nick´s gonna come back, condit would pick him apart not even resorting to bs greg jackson gameplan, FUCK id bet my money on Siyar against him im pretty sure he would kill Marquard.
Oh no wait u think he can take GSP´s belt now?
I dont fuckin know whos walter cronkite is and i dont care, but i guess it should be some whitty pop culture reference well shove it up your ass, and read carefully before posting bs responses.
No one still told me why marquard is hot right now after beating woodley...
he was on his way to fight A.Silva as i remember when chael beat him.
now tell me fuckin newfags.

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+11 # Guest 2012-07-15 02:16

new weight class means new weight class, means new people in new weight class. diff organization means new people and dont forget, new weight class. if you want to post questions about yester year you might want to send him some emails bruh.

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0 # Joe O. 2012-07-15 19:01

Quoting Sidecheckkick:

-nick´s gonna come back, condit would pick him apart not even resorting to bs greg jackson gameplan, FUCK id bet my money on Siyar against him im pretty sure he would kill Marquard.

Nate Marqaurdt fights for Strikeforce right now, not the UFC.

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i did put my money on woodley simply because i dislike marquard for elevated t levels

Ohhhkay so why are we supposed to be concerned with your opinion then?

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I dont fuckin know whos walter cronkite is and i dont care

Oh lord...

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-1 # Sidecheckkick 2012-07-18 17:14

All i said is, being a SF champ means nothing for Marquard right now.
Different organisation under same management- that will be merged into UFC sooner or later anyway, everybody and ur grandma knows that.
And again im half terrorist half commie i dont give a fuck about your capitalist western devil worshippers media propaganda- deal with it.

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-10 # Sidecheckkick 2012-07-14 20:38

i did put my money on woodley simply because i dislike marquard for elevated t levels- hes no chael u know he cant get away with that.

however U know who fucked my parlay? i could live with it if it was woodley.

Fuckin amir khan, fuck boxing, i just had to take a couple of fights from boxing into my bet because they didnt offer all strikeforce fights for betting in germany, i could only bet woodley and rockhold. Amir Khan was 1,25 Garcia was 5. dammit.

im glad i was still sober then and lost only 50 euro.

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+19 # Guest 2012-07-14 20:39

Marquadt looked awesome the whole fight, so did Tyron. And that KO... man those were bombs, no surprised at all at the walk away.

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+40 # Sidecheckkick 2012-07-14 20:40

come on tyron did good, but he needs to tell his family to stay the fuck at home.

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+8 # Guest 2012-07-14 20:47

dammmmmm....nig ga got knocked out.

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+24 # MustacheHero 2012-07-14 21:09

I won't lie. It was awesome seeing T Wood's hump train get derailed in more ways than one. I enjoyed seeing him open up and put together some strikes. It was even better seeing him get KTFO via Killer Instinct juggle combo.

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+16 # Guest 2012-07-14 21:35

First the Gouveia combo, now this.

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+10 # Guest 2012-07-15 03:38

That was badass wasn't it!

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-8 # Guest 2012-07-14 22:18

is it just me or was that elbow straight to the back of the head vitor belfort style

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-13 # Sidecheckkick 2012-07-15 00:10

yeah i saw it too immediately, glad someone saw it too, but you cant call it illegal, or even on purpose.. stuff like this just happens in mma

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+14 # benny 2012-07-15 07:22

Just stop talking

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-2 # Sidecheckkick 2012-07-15 17:00

well im typing badass.

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+3 # Guest 2012-07-15 04:43

To the side of the head, behind the ear. The back of the head rule needs some clarification; what exactly is "back of the head"?

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0 # Fatty_Sam86 2012-07-15 10:55

If you draw a line from your ears over the top of your head, anything behind that is "back of the head."

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0 # Twinny 2012-07-15 12:20

It depends on the ref. Some refs enforce the "mohawk" definition and some refs enforce the "headphones" (everything behind a hypothetical set of headphones is back of the head) definition.

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0 # Sambro 2012-07-15 10:23

that was a legal shot. If the punch, in this case the elbow touches the ear then its legal.

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+13 # Guest 2012-07-14 22:57

Most Tekken like finish since:
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh165/narcisist13/marquardt-1.gif

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+12 # Guest 2012-07-15 08:46

Nate 'button-masher' Marquardt. Exactly, it reminded me of when he went all super saiyan video game underboss dr robotnik against Gouveia too

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+8 # Guest 2012-07-15 09:44

This fight was insane. I was overwhelmed because I did not expect this war at all. respect to both fighters, they went in

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0 # thulsadoom 2012-07-15 11:18

Shoryuken!

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+4 # thulsadoom 2012-07-15 11:20

Nuff said...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9z8F4fgj6Q[/youtube]

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+2 # Guest 2012-07-15 12:58

FINISH HIM!!!!!!!

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+4 # Guest 2012-07-15 13:22

it looked like a mortal combat game after you beat someone and can keep hitting their limp body

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+2 # Tom Hanks 2012-07-15 14:49

Man it's hard to spell hemorage, hemmorage?

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0 # Guest 2012-07-15 22:52

brutality!

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+2 # Guest 2012-07-16 01:33

Marquardt looked scarier there than he ever has in his career, good job Nate.

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0 # Guest 2012-07-16 23:18

Holy shit that was some knockout. Absolutely amazing, fair play to Nate the great, dude looked like a stallion. I have to say that part of me was quite glad that Woodley lost in such brutal fashion if only to shut his annoying family up. His mother was distracting and embarrassing screaming like an idiot (she sounded like a drunk Matt Serra). People like this should be banned from ringside.

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