UFC Announces List of Fighters Moving from Strikeforce to UFC
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 01.16.2013
Daniel Cormier, Gilbert Melendez, Nate Marquardt and more...
The UFC has revealed a big list of Strikeforce fighters moving over to the UFC. The list was announced on FUEL's UFC Tonight. Several of these names were already more or less confirmed, but this makes it official. Included in the list are Daniel Cormier, Gilbert Melendez, Luke Rockhold, Tarec Saffiedine, and Nate Marquardt, as well as Gegard Mousasi, Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza and Tim Kennedy.
Among those not yet announced as moving over are Josh Barnett, Dion Staring, Mike Kyle and Jorge Gurgel. More announcements may be forthcoming. The full list as announced is below:
Daniel Cormier
Gegard Mousasi
Gian Villante
Roger Gracie
Tim Kennedy
Lorenz Larkin
Luke Rockhold
Ronaldo Souza
Roger Bowling
Jason High
Nate Marquardt
Tarec Saffiedine
Bobby Voelker
Ryan Couture
Pat Healy
Kurt Holobaugh
Adriano Martins
Gilbert Melendez
K.J. Noons
Josh Thomson
