A light heavyweight bout has been added to next months Strikeforce Challengers 17 (aka Strikeforce Challengers: Bowling vs. Voelker III) event between rising star Ovince St. Preux (10-4) and promotion newcomer Joe Cason (9-1).News of the matchup comes via MMAFighting.com who learned of the bout on Saturday from event sources.
Strikeforce Challengers: Bowling vs. Voelker III marks the promotions first ever event held at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event will take place on July 22 and is headlined by a welterweight grudge match between Roger Bowling and Bobby Voelker.
St. Preux has won seven straight fights, earning all of his victories in less than a years time fighting four times for Strikeforce. His last win, a Jan. 7 unanimous decision victory over Abongo Humphrey at a previous Strikeforce Challengers event. That was St. Preux’s third straight Strikeforce win having also stopped Benji Radach and Antwain Britt.
Cason will make his Strikeforce debut after competing almost entirely with local Iowa promotions. The promotion newcomer has won eight straight wins, earning his last victory in May over one time UFC/Strikeforce fighter Sean Salmon. Seven of Cason’s nine wins have come via (T)KO.
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