RISK

As we all know, recently Strikeforce announced a HeavyWeight 'GP' to entice the heart and mind of every MMA fan on the planet with access to media of any sort.

It's impossible to go anywhere near websites, blogs, youtube pages without being reminded

just what's ins tore over the course of the next year and I'm sure I'm not alone when i say i'm past excitement and I'm starting to romanticise the whole event in my head

but are Scott Coker and Rich Chou taking a risk?

the potential for this tournament to peak interest in strikefoce, let alone MMA as a whole

is tremendous, within the brackets of the tournament lay some of the best fighters on the planet

but as we all know, in a GP this can mean everything, but it can also mean nothing.. at this second the Strikeforce heavyweight roster contains :

• The current Strikeforce, DREAM and K1 2010 HW GP champion - Alistair Overeem
• Current WAMMA (lol) HW champion, last PRIDE Heavyweight champion - Fedor
• Former M1 Global MFC European HW and UFC HW champion - Andre Arloski
• Former UF HW champion, Open-weight King Of Pancrase - Josh Barnett
• Current world submission wresling champion (ADCC) - Fabricio Werdum
• 2 time HW title contender and perennial sam's club employee of the month - Brett Rogers
• 6 time russian airborn troops hand-t0-hand combat champion - Sergei Kharitonov
• Cage Rage/Elite XC HW champion and Cage Warriors Super HW champion - Antonio Silva
• Undefeated Olympic team captain, XMMA & King of the Cage HW champion - Daniel Cormier
• XMMA and King of the Cage Light-Heavyweight champion - Mike Kyle
• WBC Muay Thai Heavyweight champion - Shane Del Rosario
• Forced Buttsex Champion and courtroom semi finalist (guilty plea charges reduced) - Devin Cole
• One Time Frag Vest - Lavar Johnson
• 2 Time Armed Forces Champion, WWE unied states and 2 time ECW champion - Bobby Lashley
• Chad Griggs.

and while I'm unsure the addition is permanent, the addition of tournament alternate

Former WKBA Super heavyweight world champion and constant K1 battler Ray Sefo who is a veteran of over 80 fights branching across MMA, kick boxing and boxing

with the tournament panning out over the year, the brackets set and designed to give us the exciting fights first I've started to worry, what of the aftermath?

When all is said and done, and we have our GP champion... who comes next?

Strikeforce currently runs the risk of having their current champion win a tournament initially designed to present us with/whittle down a top contender for their HW strap

if Alistair wins or looses, the roster looks meaningless in terms of challengers

all note able fighters with any sort of name, will be coming off a loss due to the seeding and arrangement of the tournament, leaving the "challengers" series to provide some sort of gore fodder for the casual fan

The questions it leaves Strikeforce are - "out of all the challengers, who is the most ready?"

and "what do we do now?"

Is Cormier ready to ready to take on an Overeem?

can Del Rosario handle Antonio Silva?

is Kharitonov gonna repeat his feat?..Can he be the last, and next man to best Overeem?

Can Fedor stop Silva?

one way or another, in the year/year and a half we're about to find out.