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Strikeforce held an open workout and press conference yesterday at Legends gym in Hollywood, California for their upcoming Strikeforce “Nashville” event. Here’s highlights, video interviews and pictures courtesy of Strikeforce, Showtime, Sherdog and FIGHT! Magazine.

Dan Henderson talks about his upcoming Strikeforce debut on April 17 against Jake Shields for the middleweight title.

Several Strikeforce fighters including Dan Henderson, Frank Shamrock and Cung Le will be guest starring in an upcoming episode of CBS’ NCIS: LA to cross-promote the upcoming Strikeforce “Nashville” show. If their presence wasn’t already a dead giveaway, the episode will have a MMA theme. LL Cool J’s character will be going undercover as an MMA fighter to investigate the death of a Marine. The episode airs on April 6, a week and a half before Strikeforce’s second CBS event. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s a really good show so definitely check it out.

Set photo via Sherdog

It’s finally official!

It looks like the Strikeforce April 17 event is all but officially announced for CBS. Jake Shields tweeted earlier today that his title defense against Dan Henderson and the rumored Gegard Mousasi vs. King Mo fight are official. MMA Weekly confirmed those two bouts will co-headline the event.

The rumored Dan Henderson vs. Jake Shields fight is finally a done deal. Shields confirmed the news to MMA Weekly, but also expressed a little doubt about the card airing on CBS.

“It’s a go now. We finally worked it out a few days ago,” he said about the fight with Henderson. “It’s a done deal, it’s been agreed upon by both parties as far as I know, and I think it’s set to go.”

“I have a date (and) venue, but they told me to hold that back,” said Shields. “Hopefully CBS. I think it’s CBS. There’s a slight possibility of Showtime because they’re still (working it out). I don’t know the rest of the card or any of that yet. But me and Dan’s on, and I’m hoping it’s on CBS.”

As far as anyone knows, or has at least reported, CBS is still set to broadcast the event. In fact, the most recent questions surrounding the event have been about the date, location, and whether Fedor Emelianenko is still set to headline the card, not the network it’s airing on. This is starting to turn out like an episode of Lost. Each answer brings more questions.

Image via Esther Lin for Showtime

As you can see Brock Lesnar will grace the cover of UFC Undisputed 2010 which is due out in stores on May 25. Gamespot.com did a Q&A with one of the game’s designers you should definitely check out. He talks about some of the new features to expect in the game including improved fighting techniques and submission system, cage gameplay, the addition of fight camps in career mode where you can focus on improving individual techniques (ie. guillotine choke), enhanced career mode, unique assignable moves and styles for fighters, online fight camps and additional single-player modes. Definitely sounds like a major improvement over Undisputed 2009.

As for EA Sports MMA, they just announced another major signing — Dan Henderson. No word if Hendo will appear in Undisputed 2010, but it’s probably safe to say he won’t. Tyrone Woodley was also announced.

It’s going to be very interesting how these two games stack up when they’re released later this year. Can’t wait.

On this week’s edition of ESPN MMA Live, Jon Anik and crew give out their 2009 year-end awards. But first they were joined by Brock Lesnar’s trainer, Greg Nelson, who says Brock will “definitely” fight again, but isn’t sure when. He is aware Dana White intends to hold a press conference early next week to reveal Lesnar’s future, but doesn’t know what will be announced.

RawVegas.tv catches up with Dana White and Dan Henderson at the 2009 World MMA awards in Las Vegas.