From MMA Junkie

A potential fight between two of the world’s top 155-pound fighters outside of the Ultimate Fighting Championship is one step closer to fruition.

Just hours after officials from Bellator Fighting Championships distributed a press release campaigning for a fight between their lightweight champ, Eddie Alvarez, and Strikeforce lightweight title-holder Gilbert Melenedez, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said he’s open to co-promoting the champion-vs.-champion bout.

“If the stars align and we can work out all the terms and conditions and timing, we’d do it,” Coker told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “Of course we would. Why wouldn’t we? Let’s go do this.”

With the likes of Frankie Edgar, B.J. Penn, Kenny Florian, Gray Maynard, Jim Miller and Diego Sanchez, the UFC has a stronghold on the world’s best 155-pound talent. That, of course, has long been the case and given the promotion just about every major lightweight fight of late.

But Alvarez vs. Melendez would pit two of the world’s top-10 lightweights against each other. And with the UFC’s upcoming Edgar vs. Penn II and Florian vs. Maynard bouts, it couldn’t come at a better time.

The long running idea of “Co-promotion aka The Scourge of Boxing” being bad for MMA is starting to ring hollow with possible super fights like this being in the works. The sheer objectivity obliterating nature of having the best fight the best regardless of promotional allegiance while not entirely new to mma, it is still rarely seen. Hopefully both organizations can come to an agreement and make this mma fanboys dream a reality.

Thanks to Bloody Elbow for the pic.

With the Strikeforce event coming to a close we have yet another weeks worth of talking to do over another middleweight title fight. After surviving a gauntlet of a first round Jake Shields went on to out grapple the former Pride Champion and UFC vet Dan Henderson and retain his title.

And then things got interesting, Jason “Mayhem” Miller lived up to his nickname by interrupting Shields post victory speech to ask a seemingly simple question.

“Where’s my rematch, buddy?!”

Jakes teammates from Ceasar Gracies bjj academy were not amused by Millers scene stealing and promptly swarmed and attacked the lone middleweight. In a night with 3 title fights that went the distance, this debacle stole the show. And while I personally am a huge fan of Nick Diaz I can totally see why such a short tempered man is not in the UFC anymore.

With King Mo wrestling his way to the title and Gilbert Melendez beating the crap out of Japans top lightweight and retaining his title. The show was a tepid one at best to say the least but had its entertaining moments here and there.

Look at it this way, at least it made Dana White happy. And just like Anderson Silvas last performance it has given the mma blogesphere a huge chunk of material to bump our gums over.