MMA is back in the New York Metro area this week beginning today in Manhattan and ending this Saturday with “a sensational fight card highlighted by the return of Fedor Emelianenko and the beginning of the eagerly anticipated STRIKEFORCE World Grand Prix — Heavyweight Tournament live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J.”
(239 W. 52nd Street just West of Broadway, NYC)
Event Runs from 4 PM – 6 PM (Doors at 3:30)
All eight tournament entrants: Fedor, STRIKEFORCE Heavyweight World Champion Alistair Overeem, former heavyweight champions Antonio “Big Foot” Silva and Andrei Arlovski, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Fabricio Werdum, hard-hitting Brett Rogers, talented Josh Barnett and Russian star Sergei Kharitonov will participate.
Fans in attendance on Tuesday can win free tickets, get autographs, photos, watch fighters work out and much more.