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SHOWTIME®
TO RE-AIR DIAZ-NOONS I
PRIOR TO
LONG-AWAITED OCT. 9 REMATCH
Beginning Friday, Sept. 24 at 10 P.M.;
Also Available on Showtime On Demand
 NEW
YORK (Sept. 21, 2010) – In anticipation of their must-see grudge
rematch on Saturday, Oct. 9, SHOWTIME® will re-air the
memorable first fight between Nick Diaz and KJ Noons
as part of an hour-long, multi-fight highlight package on SHO 2
beginning Friday, Sept. 24, at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the
West Coast).
The Diaz-Noons special, which features their
original showdown along with three of Diaz’s past fights and three
of Noons’ past fights, will also air on Tuesday, Sept. 28,
at 10:10 p.m. ET/PT on SHO 2 immediately following an airing of
Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker. It will air again
on Monday, Oct. 4, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHO2. The program
will also be available On Demand beginning Sept. 24.
The first slugfest ended in bloody controversy
when Noons won a disputed, first-round upset TKO over Diaz in a
thrilling, give-and-take brawl, Nov. 7, 2007, on SHOWTIME. Both
fighters have gone undefeated since their last meeting and bad blood
between the brash fighters has only been growing.
Diaz-Noons II will be for Diaz’s STRIKEFORCE
World Welterweight Title in the main event of a sensational fight
card at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., which
will also feature Sarah Kaufman defending her STRIKEFORCE
Women’s Welterweight World Title against No. 1 contender Marloes
Coenen.
The following Diaz and Noons fights, consisting
of five knockouts and one submission, will also appear on the
highlight video: Diaz vs. Thomas Denny (July 26, 2008), Diaz
vs. Scott Smith (June 6, 2009), Diaz vs. Marius Zaromskis
(Jan. 30, 2010), Noons vs. James Edson Berto (July 27, 2007),
Noons vs. Yves Edwards (June 14, 2008) and Noons vs. Jorge
Gurgel (Aug. 21, 2010).
About
STRIKEFORCE
STRIKEFORCE (www.strikeforce.com)
is a world-class mixed martial arts cage fight promotion which, on
Friday, March 10, 2006, made history with its "Shamrock vs. Gracie"
event, the first sanctioned mixed martial arts fight card in
California state history. The star-studded extravaganza, which
pitted legendary champion Frank Shamrock against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
black belt Cesar Gracie at San Jose's HP Pavilion, played host to a
sold-out, record crowd of 18,265. Since 1995, STRIKEFORCE,
sanctioned by ISKA, has been the exclusive provider of martial arts
programming for ESPN and, after 12 years of success as a leading,
world championship kickboxing promotion, the company unveiled its
mixed martial arts (MMA) series with "Shamrock vs. Gracie." In May
2008, West Coast Productions, the parent company of STRIKEFORCE,
partnered with Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment (SVS&E), an
entity created in 2000 to oversee all business operation aspects of
the San Jose Sharks and HP Pavilion at San Jose. In March 2009,
STRIKEFORCE signed a multi-year agreement with SHOWTIME® to stage
live events on the premium cable television network. The promotion
has since also produced two live, primetime events on the CBS
Television Network.
About Showtime Networks Inc.
Showtime
Networks Inc. (SNI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation,
owns and operates the premium television networks SHOWTIME®, THE
MOVIE CHANNEL™ and FLIX®, as well as the multiplex channels SHOWTIME
2™, SHOWTIME® SHOWCASE, SHOWTIME EXTREME®, SHOWTIME BEYOND®,
SHOWTIME NEXT®, SHOWTIME WOMEN®, SHOWTIME FAMILY ZONE® and THE MOVIE
CHANNEL™ XTRA. SNI also offers SHOWTIME HD™, SHOWTIME 2 HD™, THE
MOVIE CHANNEL HD™, SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL ON DEMAND™
and FLIX ON DEMAND®. SNI also manages Smithsonian Channel™, a joint
venture between SNI and the Smithsonian Institution. All SNI feeds
provide enhanced sound using Dolby Digital 5.1. SNI markets and
distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to
subscribers on a pay-per-view basis through SHOWTIME PPV®.
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