{"id":7285,"date":"2010-06-24T01:17:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T06:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2010-06-24T01:17:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T06:17:38","slug":"latest-on-batistas-strikeforce-deal-money-stands-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/06\/24\/latest-on-batistas-strikeforce-deal-money-stands-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Batista&#8217;s Strikeforce MMA Deal; Money Stands in the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Batista might have jumped the gun in telling TMZ that he was gearing for a mixed martial arts debut with Strikeforce, but the media outlet maintains that he was not speaking outside the realm of reality.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;margin-right:5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/entertainment\/wwe-smackdown-sydney-press\/image\/2591124?term=batista+wwe\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/view4.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/2591124\/wwe-smackdown-sydney-press\/wwe-smackdown-sydney-press.jpg?size=234&#038;imageId=2591124\" border=\"0\" width=\"234\" title=\"WWE Smackdown Sydney Press Conference\" height=\"173\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" ondrag=\"return false;\" onmousedown=\"return false;\" alt=\"SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 15:  WWE World Heavyweight Champion Batista during the WWE Smackdown Photo Call at the Sheraton on the Park Hotel on June 15, 2008 in Sydney, Australia.  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Strikeforce representatives denied that a deal had been reached, but it seems that one could be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Latest On Batista&#039;s Strikeforce MMA Deal; Money Stands in the Way<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dave Batista might have jumped the gun in telling TMZ that he was gearing for a mixed martial arts debut with Strikeforce, but the media outlet maintains\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/06\/24\/latest-on-batistas-strikeforce-deal-money-stands-in-the-way\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Latest On Batista&#039;s Strikeforce MMA Deal; Money Stands in the Way\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dave Batista might have jumped the gun in telling TMZ that he was gearing for a mixed martial arts debut with Strikeforce, but the media outlet maintains\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/06\/24\/latest-on-batistas-strikeforce-deal-money-stands-in-the-way\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-06-24T06:17:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-06-24T06:17:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/view4.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/2591124\/wwe-smackdown-sydney-press\/wwe-smackdown-sydney-press.jpg?size=234&imageId=2591124\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/06\/24\/latest-on-batistas-strikeforce-deal-money-stands-in-the-way\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/06\/24\/latest-on-batistas-strikeforce-deal-money-stands-in-the-way\/\",\"name\":\"Latest On Batista's Strikeforce MMA Deal; Money Stands in the Way\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-24T06:17:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-06-24T06:17:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Dave Batista might have jumped the gun in telling TMZ that he was gearing for a mixed martial arts debut with Strikeforce, but the media outlet maintains\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/06\/24\/latest-on-batistas-strikeforce-deal-money-stands-in-the-way\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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