Brackets Announced For Strikeforce World Grand Prix: Heavyweights

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Strikeforce has revealed the brackets for its Heavyweight World Grand Prix Tournament and its certainly contains a big surpise with the winners of Alistair Overeem vs. Fabricio Werdum and Fedor Emelianenko vs. Antonio Silva meeting in the semi-final stage. This goes against expectations that the tournament was designed to build to an eventual match up between the Strikeforce, K-1 and Dream champion Alistair Overeem and the legendary Fedor. It also means that the four most highly rated fighters are all on one side of the draw, with the matchups on the second half being noticeably weaker. The full brackets are as follows:

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