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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Strikeforce's April 9 event finally has a venue.
Strikeforce will make their debut in San Diego, bringing the event to the San Diego Sports Arena with a pair of title fights in lieu of the second set of quarterfinal bouts in the Heavyweight World Grand Prix.
Headlining the night's card at the 16,000 seat venue is the Welterweight Championship bout between Nick Diaz and Paul Daley. The co-main event will feature the return of Gilbert Melendez in his first fight in a year as he defends his Strikeforce Lightweight Championship against Tatsuya Kawajiri.
Ticket information for the card is expected to be made available sometime this week.
Penick's Analysis: This will be a very entertaining card, but because of the debacle taking place with the Heavyweight World Grand Prix, they are going to be left with a lot less time to hype and promote these two title fights and this card, along with being overshadowed by the Grand Prix not taking place on the date it was initially announced. This weekend's Columbus card and the April 9 event are not going to benefit from the ratings boon they saw on February 12. Now they're spinning the move to June as an attempt to "capitalize" on the February ratings, but running four months later, with two months between major events, isn't going to help them in that respect.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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