Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg was held at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on August 15, 2009. The event aired live on the Showtime cable network and marked the first time two women headlined an event in Strikeforce history.

Below are the results for the event:

Preliminary Card

• Alex Trevino def. Isaiah Hill by submission (keylock) at 3:56 of Round 1

• James Terry def. Zak Bucia by TKO (head kick and punches) at 1:23 at Round 1

• Justin Wilcox def. David Douglas by submission (rear naked choke) at 3:16 of Round 3

• Scott Lighty def. Mike Cook by TKO (punch to the Body) at 2:05 of Round 1

• Jay Hieron def. Jesse Taylor by unanimous decision

Main Card

• Fabricio Werdum def. Mike Kyle by submission (guillotine choke) at 1:24 of Round 1

• Gilbert Melendez def. Mitsuhiro Ishida by TKO (punches) at 3:56 of Round 3 to retain the Strikeforce Interim Lightweight Champion

• Gegard Mousasi def. Renato "Babalu" Sobral by TKO (punches) at 1:00 of Round 1 to become the new Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion

• Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos def. Gina Carano by TKO (punches) at 4:59 of Round 1 to become the new Strikeforce Women's Champion

Two long-awaited fights, Gina Carano (picture) vs. Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos and Gilbert Melendez vs. Josh Thomson, will happen at Strikeforce on August 15.

Strikeforce announced the fights during Saturday's "Lawler vs. Shields" broadcast on Showtime.

Fans have been asking for Carano (7-0) to meet Santos (7-1) since the two began to make their mark in women's MMA through the EliteXC promotion. Santos has won her last seven fights. Santos last victory was over Hitomi Akano in April, in a fight where she came in seven pounds overweight. Carano's fight was a unanimous decision over Kelly Kobald at EliteXC: Heat last October on CBS.

Josh Thomson (16-2) won the Strikeforce Lightweight Championship over Gilbert Melendez (14-2) but has yet to defend it due to injuries. They were scheduled to meet in April, but Thomson suffered a broken leg. Melendez won the interim title at the event and he'll receive his chance to unify the titles in August.

Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz will be streamed live on Saturday night from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, for a price tag of $24.95.

The online option is for those without subscriptions to Showtime, but an incentive to order the online stream is the options to choose camera angles and audio commentary.

Below is the fight card for the event:

Showtime bouts:

• Frank Shamrock vs. Nick Diaz

• Josh Thomson vs. Rodrigo Damm

• Scott Smith vs. Benji Radach

• Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos vs. Hitomi Akano

• Brett Rogers vs. Ron "Abongo" Humphrey

Preliminary bouts:

• Luke Rockhold vs. Buck Meredith

• Eric Lawson vs. Waylon Kennell

• Raul Castillo vs. Brandon Michaels

• James Terry vs. Zak Bucia

• Jeremy Tavares vs. Shingo Kohara

"We're going to continue supporting women's MMA and we're going to be inviting Gina to come fight on April 11. And we've already got confirmation from Cyborg that she is available if we can put that match together. We will be supporting women's MMA in Strikeforce," said Strikeforce President Scott Coker.

Coker has been working feverishly behind the scenes to put together what would be seen as the biggest fight in the history of women's MMA, a matchup between undefeated media favorite Gina Carano (picture) and the highly skilled Brazilian Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos.

Coker announced last week that Santos had signed with the promotion with the intent of facing Carano. And sources have indicated that the company is working hard on securing the fight for it's first Showtime event this April 11.

The show looks to add Carano versus Cyborg to previously announced match-ups featuring former UFC Champion Frank Shamrock going up against Nick Diaz and Scott Smith facing off against Benji Radach.

UFC veteran Phil "The New York Bad Ass" Baroni has signed a contract with Xtreme MMA in Quebec, Canada to headline their upcoming card XMMA 7 on February 27 in Montreal, Quebec.

According to reports on CagePlay.com, Baroni's XMMA debut will come against welterweight prospect Guillaume De Lorenzi.

Baroni, a native of Long Island, New York, made the drop to welterweight earlier this year and has since gone 3-0 with victories over Scott Jansen, Ron Verdadero and Olaf Alfonso.

De Lorenzi possesses an unblemished mixed martial arts record of 5-0. De Lorenzi, a heavy handed striker, holds stoppage victories over Nordine Taleb, Iraj Hadin, Keith Perrigon, Jay Jenkins and Jason Motard.

Since the collapse of TKO Championship Fighting in October, XMMA has filled the void in the Canadian market by signing notable names including Baroni, Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, David Loiseau, among others.

XMMA 7 will also feature a light heavyweight bout between The Ultimate Fighter alumni Ryan Jimmo and Mike Nickels.

Since appearing on TUF, Jimmo has secured victories over Chris Fontaine, Jesse Forbes and Rick Roufus.

According to an SEC filing (a public companies' financial statement or other formal document submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission) by ProElite, Inc. on Thursday, the company is refusing to close its doors without a fight.

On October 31, the company received a notice from Showtime Networks announcing the sale of ProElite assets at a public auction. On November 4, the cable network made an SEC filing announcing the sale and placed ads on several MMA websites advertising it. Showtime's Senior Vice President of Sports and Event Programming, Ken Hershman, also sits on ProElite's board of directors.

In line with a recent letter to fighter managers promising a return in early 2009, ProElite said it would do everything in its power to stay off the auctioning block.

"The Company plans to take all appropriate measures to prevent the sale from occurring," the filing states. "Such measures may include raising additional financing, filing a lawsuit enjoining the sale, filing a bankruptcy petition or negotiating a settlement with Showtime. There can be no assurances that the company will be successful in any of these actions."

According to some sources, ProElite's first tactic may be to sue CBS Networks over gate revenue produced by its third show, "Heat". The embattled company could argue the network forced them into default on a one million dollar loan from Showtime by misrouting the funds from the Sunrise, Florida, show.

A condition of Showtime's loan, dated June 18, said ProElite's assets could be sold or taken over if it did not maintain $550,000 in cash reserves.

"CBS took the gate revenue directly from Miami, and it was contracted to go through ProElite first," a source said. "If that had happened at the time that (Showtime) called in the note, there would have been enough money that they couldn't have called in the note. So there's a legal argument there."

"ProElite's claim would be that they could have raised the money in that time, but once Showtime called in that note, publicly, it ruined any chances of raising money."

An SEC filing on December 9 detailed an agreement between CBS and ProElite where CBS would cover all costs associated with the show, and "receive" all revenue from the event, though details on how that would occur were not specified.

The question now is whether ProElite can afford to go to battle with CBS in a civil court.

Requests to CBS and ProElite representatives asking for comment were not immediately returned.

The auction, however, could possibly determine the futures of fighters like Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano, Jake Shields, Robbie Lawler, Frank Shamrock, Nick Diaz, Cristiane Santos, Yves Edwards, Wilson Reis and many others.

Brazilian female mixed martial artist Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos recently told Brazilian magazine "Tatame" that a deal is currently in the works to have the dangerous Muay Thai striker take on undefeated fighter Gina Carano at an EliteXC event in February next year. Both fighters are coming off of impressive victories at EliteXC: Heat on October 4th.

"I think it'll be in February, and it'll be cool. Everybody wants to see this fight, we both (fought) on the last event and won, and it'll be great," Santos told Tatame.

To keep things interesting and exciting, Santos expects it to be a stand-up war, "I'll stand with her, and I think she likes it too, so why not? It'll be a huge fight and someone is going down."

If the bout is put together, it is expected that the winner would be crowned the new and first EliteXC women's champion.