As much as I find professional wrestling and acid reflux go arm-in-arm, I will give them this: they actually treat their manufactured titles with respect. Strikeforce does not.
Strikeforce has a decision to make. Either the belts they promote and assign importance to are legitimate or they aren’t. For Overeem to spend two years out of the promotion and then fight Brett Rogers immediately after Rogers lost to Emelianenko is Moe Howard stuff. To deliver Overeem a second consecutive contender who lost his last fight is entering Curly territory.
The match would also violate a key law of promoters who do not enjoy the smell of burning money: do marketable matches as soon as humanly possible. Do not put them off for any reason. Emelianenko/Werdum has potential to be a viable CBS attraction, but its stroke goes out the door the second Emelianenko loses to Overeem or Werdum does the same.
Ideally, Emelianenko would fight Antonio Silva and Overeem would fight Werdum, with the winners meeting -- preferably on the same night. It’s a stunt, but then again, so is much of what Strikeforce does. I’d watch it, and so would you.