Heading into last night’s Strikeforce “St. Louis: Heavy Artillery” event, more than a few scalps across the MMA world were scabbed up from weeks of scratching, as fans and pundits tried to figure out why Brett Rogers had earned a title shot against Alistair Overeem. After all, this was the same dude that had been dropped like a bad habit by Fedor Emelianenko, so if he became champ, wouldn’t that be sort of, you know, dumb?
Well, if you watched last night’s card on Showtime, you know the above debate ended up being as pointless as trying to rationalize the designs on 80% of MMA clothing, as Overeem pounded out Rogers in less than 4 minutes (demonstrating once again that Holland isn’t all about windmills and weed…). So here’s the obvious question right? If Fedor beats Fabricio Werdum June 26th will he fight Overeem? Speaking to MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani, Strikeforce boss man Scott Coker said this:
“I feel that we’ll have a good shot to do it. I feel it’s a fight that should happen. I think when you talk about Strikeforce we’ve always tried to bring the fights that people want to see, and that’s a fight that we’re going to work really hard to put it together. Can I guarantee it? Absolutely not. It’s a fight that we’ll sit down with M-1 after the next fight with Fedor and we’ll have that conversation with M-1.”
It could happen…yeah, but let’s not plan the parade route just yet (after all Overeem just proved to a lot of mainstream fans that he in fact exists, while Fedor, well…our fingers are permanently crossed until June 26th). To check out the entire interview head here.