Following Saturday’s Strikeforce “Evolution” event, former UFC middleweight champion Matt Hughes posted a comment on his personal website, matt-hughes.com, regarding his disappointment with the promotions failure to find an opponent for his friend Robbie Lawler.

Last week I was in California with Robbie, Pena, and Foster, hoping they would find a replacement so Robbie could fight. It didn’t happen and I guess I’m just spoiled being with the UFC. From what I understand, Showtime really likes to stick their nose in Strikeforce’s business and because of that I don’t think that Strikeforce will be around for much longer; but enough with that.

Lawler had been scheduled to fight Benji Radach and then Trevor Prangley, both of whom had to withdraw from their fights with Lawler.

In Strikeforce’s defense, Prangley injured himself three days before Saturday’s event and would have given the promotion next to no time to find a new opponent. One could have been found but finding a credible opponent instead of a practice dummy was probably out of the question.