Alistair Overeem blew it.
Big time.
He destroyed Brock Lesnar in his high-profile UFC debut and was then given a shot at the UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos.
And he blew it.
At a random drug test performed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission after the UFC 146 pre-fight press conference, Overeem’s T/E (testosterone to epitestosterone) ratio was over twice the limit allowed by the NSAC at 14:1!
Afterwards, there was a long silence. Overeem was to have a hearing on April 24 to determine his fate, but apparently that wasn’t good enough for UFC president Dana White, who recently announced that the former K-1 champion was out of the fight, replaced by Frank Mir.
UFC 146 was supposed to be an epic clash of the titans. Each fight on the main card was between heavyweights. Each fight would lead up to the main event, the linear heavyweight champ—Alistair Overeem—vs. the UFC heavyweight champ—Junior Dos Santos.
Forget being just a heavyweight bout, the fight was larger than life.
But now, it will join Fedor Emelianenko vs. Randy Couture, Nick Diaz vs. Georges St. Pierre, and various other fights that the MMA world will never get to see. Overeem vs. Dos Santos is forever destined to be a maligned topic debated on Internet message boards by armchair fighters and their ilk.
All thanks to Overeem’s inability to pass a drug test.
This is one of the biggest flops in UFC history.
Yes, there were fighters who were flops because they were highly touted “prospects” that didn’t deliver (Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, Todd Duffee, Houston Alexander, Gerald Harris, etc.) but this is on a whole different level.
Not only did Overeem potentially cost the UFC loads of cash in UFC 146 pay-per-view buys, he also killed off the UFC’s most marketable star in Brock Lesnar!
Overeem came in guns blazing, destroyed the UFC’s most successful marketing gimmick (Lesnar), pissed hot, ruined a card and could now be out of the UFC or at least out of action for quite sometime pending on the NSAC hearing.
That’s quite a spectacular streak of failure, not matched by many others in the history of the UFC.
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