Alistair Overeem enlists Neil Melanson ahead of UFC 141 headliner

Alistair Overeem is slowly getting settled in at Randy Couture’s Las Vegas gym, Xtreme Couture.

The former Strikeforce heavyweight champion and current UFC heavyweight has tapped the gym’s grappling coach, Neil Melanson, to help him prepare for Brock Lesnar at UFC 141.

“I can push him really hard on the ground,” Melanson told MMAjunkie.com.