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Here are the official results from last night’s Strikeforce: Evolution fight card.

• Scott Smith def. Cung Le via KO in Rd. 3
• Gilbert Melendez def. Josh Thomson via decision
• Ronaldo Souza def. Matt Lindland via submission in Rd. 1
• Muhammed Lawal def. Mike Whitehead via KO in Rd. 1
• Antwain Britt def. Scott Lighty via TKO in Rd. 1
• Justin Wilcox def. Daisuke Nakamura via decision
• Alex Crispim def. AJ Fonseca via decision

“Cung Le doesn’t want to fight me. That’s why he vacated the title only to  come back a month later and fight again. You’ll have to ask Cung why he won’t fight me.”

Newly crowned Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Jake Shields takes at shot at Cung Le during the “Fedor vs. Rogers” post fight press conference on Nov. 7 from the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Shields bested Jason “Mayhem” Miller in a five round unanimous decision victory to lay claim to the belt that Le vacated just last month. Le contends that he was not expecting to be available to to fight so soon, but his current acting gig was delayed when the movie he was filiming got pushed back a year, thus freeing him up for a return to Strikeforce against Scott Smith on Dec. 19. Is Le avoiding the ground game of Shields? Or is this just a case of inconvenient timing? Thoughts?