{"id":648796,"date":"2010-01-30T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-216634:1"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:05:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:05:21","slug":"strikeforce-interview-hieron-passed-on-zaromskis-for-riggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/648796","title":{"rendered":"Strikeforce interview: Hieron passed on Zaromskis for Riggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Jay Hieron has been hunting Nick Diaz. Unfortunately Diaz&#8217;s issue with marijuana and state commissions screwed Hieron out of the opportunity to shoot for the Strikeforce welterweight belt during 2009. So when Hieron was offered a shot to fight DREAM 170 champ Marius Zaromskis, he had to wrestle with the consequences of a loss. Hieron and his manager Ken Pavia, decided Zaromskis wasn&#8217;t a big enough name in the U.S. to risk a fight against the emerging Lithuanian star. Joe Riggs is a better name in the states and a win over the veteran puts Hieron in line for a Diaz fight in Strikeforce or an exit to the UFC. Watch Hieron when he talks about his contract. He suggests that he&#8217;s unaware of whether he has one or two fights left on the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Hieron has been hunting Nick Diaz. Unfortunately Diaz&#8217;s issue with marijuana and state commissions screwed Hieron out of the opportunity to shoot for the Strikeforce welterweight belt during 2009. So when Hieron was offered a shot to fight DREAM 170 champ Marius Zaromskis, he had to wrestle with the consequences of a loss. Hieron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IMs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}