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Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante reportedly meeting Olympic silver medalist Yoel Romero on Sept. 10 Strikeforce event
Jul 21, 2011 - 11:50:31 AM Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante reportedly meeting Olympic silver medalist Yoel Romero on Sept. 10 Strikeforce event

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Strikeforce's Sept. 10 event is already one of the most packed events the organization has put together, and now they've added another big fight as MMAJunkie.com reports that Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante will meet undefeated Olympian Yoel Romero on the card.

Cavalcante returns for the first time since losing his Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Championship to Dan Henderson in March. The loss snapped a three fight win streak that culminated in Cavalcante's Title winning TKO of Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal last August.

Romero, a Cuban national, won the silver medal in wrestling in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He made the transition to MMA in 2009, and while fighting in Germany and Poland he has compiled a 4-0 record to begin his career. All four of his fights have ended by knockout or TKO.

With a heavily packed card featuring a Middleweight Championship bout and the semifinals of the Heavyweight World Grand Prix, it's not known whether or not this fight will make the Showtime broadcast or not.

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Penick's Analysis: Because Romero isn't a well-known name in MMA, it's quite possible Cavalcante goes from headlining a Showtime card to not even making the broadcast, which is a little crazy, but that's how packed they've made this card. There's going to be one or two fights that deserve to be broadcast that aren't going to make the Showtime card, unless they make this a longer stretch of broadcast time on Showtime. But with that not being a likely scenario, this will probably be one of them not airing on Showtime.