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Today Strikeforce held a conference call to help get the word out about Strikeforce: Cung Le vs Frank Shamrock, which takes place in San Jose on March 29th and will be shown on SHOWTIME. Here are a few snippets:

• Frank Shamrock on Cung Le: “Like most people he’s afraid to go to the ground with me. I don’t think it’s going to be a long fight.”
• Cung Le on Frank Shamrock: “If Frank chooses to stand I think we’re going to have a great fight. If Frank believes he’s going to chase me down while I’m striking that’s great I will be happy to greet him with strikes.”
• Frank Shamrock on his brother Ken Shamrock’s fight against Buzz Berry at Cage Rage 25: “I was pretty disappointed. I don’t know if he’s still got the heart of a lion in him… I hope he’s got plenty left in him because I’d like to take it out of him.”
• Gary Shaw on arranging the fight between Randy Couture and Fedor Emelianenko upon their availability: “I would sign it in less than a heartbeat.”
• Jake Shields on his promotion to black belt under Cesar Gracie: “It was mostly symbolic. I’ve been competing at that level for a while. It’s still significant though as it’s not often that Cesar Gracie gives a black belt.”
• Gary Shaw on Frank Shamrock, responding to the claim that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world: “The best fighter in the world, hands down, bar none, is Frank Shamrock.”

Gary Shaw also said that a CBS press release will go out tomorrow listing the date, the announcing team, and some fight matchups of the previously reported network television deal EliteXC has reached with CBS. Someone asked when we might see Gina Carano in action again and though Shaw did his best to not reveal any details about tomorrow’s press release, he did hint that she may appear in tomorrow’s press release.

- Caleb

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