Holländske tungviktaren Alistair Overeem mötte under UFC 203 mästaren Stipe Miocic och knockades då i första ronden. Innan detta lyckades Overeem få Miocic i en giljotin och hävdade efter matchen i intervjun med Joe Rogan att mästaren klappade. Overeem hamnade i en obekväm sits då Rogan bad om att reprisen skulle visas och frågade när han kände att detta skulle ha skett.
Enligt Overeem var anledningen till att han tog upp detta hans hörna, som berättade för honom att Miocic klappade.
Det här berättade Overeem via ’The MMA Hour’:
Joe Rogan put me on the spot. My coaches were the ones that addressed the issue with me, they were like ‘Alistair, he tapped,’ and I told them ‘listen guys, are you actually 100 percent sure, and they told me we’re 100 percent sure, that’s why I picked it up, because of them. Rogan jumped up on it, and I saw he was like ‘I got you.’ He had me on that one, but it’s all good.
We came very close in the guillotine, he did an excellent job escaping guillotine and pressing that fight after that. The other thing was, it was over so quick I didn’t really have any damages. Two right shots, right on the jaw. He has a great right hand. It was already over. I was not gassed, I wasn’t tired, I didn’t have any damage. So kudos to Stipe Miocic, he’s a champion for a reason, he’s very strong very accurate, like I said before, and he took me out.
För framtida matcher har holländaren inga direkta planer på vem han vill möta, men känner att en matchning mot antingen Fabricio Werdum eller Ben Rothwell skulle bli intressant.
I have no idea. There’s a bunch of top 10 guys not booked. I believe at this level it doesn’t really matter, the top 10 guys, top five guys, it’s all good. … I don’t have beef with anybody but after that first fight with [Fabricio] Werdum, that could be something interesting. [Ben] Rothwell could be nice, right. I lost two and a half years ago Other than that, Bigfoot [Silva] is a fight I would like to avenge, but he’s not with UFC any longer. Maybe Travis [Browne] is a fight I could avenge. That’s just a fight I thought should have been in my favor. I know I’m better that this guy.
Overeem har nu även fått extrajobb som kommentator för den kommande matchen, där hans gamla rival Badr Hari går kickboxningsmatch mot tungviktsmästaren Rico Verhoeven under GLORY Collision i Tyskland på lördag.
I’ve been asked to be a commentator for the show. This is going to be my second time commentating fights, I did it once before … sometime a couple years ago. I liked at, and Glory thought it would be nice if I joined the commentary crew, so that’s what I’ll be doing. This Saturday, I was already going to attend the fight, it’s a very big kickboxing matchup.
You have the champion Rico Verhoeven, who has been the champ three and a half years undefeated. And he’s fighting Badi Hari who was the Bad Boy of K-1. … he never won the Grand Prix, but he basically defeated everyone, all the top guys at one point. He’s one of the most dangerous fighters, so it’s a champion between the new kid on the block and the old, dangerous legend.
