Author: moneybags

Alistair Overeem vs Brett Rogers

I think the guys on Inside MMA said it best. The early part of the fight puts the advantage into Alistair’s hands due to his strength, experience, and overall skill. However, remember his fight against Badr Hari in K-1?

This is how I see this fight going. Brett Rogers is absolutely no joke when it comes to his stand up. He KO’d a technically superior Andrei Arlovski, cut and gave fits to Fedor in the first round of their fight, and just has that “reach out and knock you out power.” He is one of the few that have that even in the heavy weight division. Probably, Fedor Emelianenko, Alistair Overeem, Shane Carwin, possibly Roy Nelson, and of course Rogers are the few heavy weights that have that 1 punch lights out cold, big ass arm power.

The difference between Overeem and Rogers is that the stand up of Rogers is probably better. However, Overeem can win more ways. His knees, kicks, and hooks are excellent. However, as the fight goes even into the late 1st round, he will likely be defending more than striking. The winner of this fight will have the best cardio not the best striking.

If Overeem fights against superior strikers he usually loses. He lost to Chuck Lidell, Little Nog twice, Shogun Rua twice. However, he beat Paul Buentello. Buentello though barely makes the heavyweight division. He was overpowered into the cage and frankly Overeem fought a smart fight.

Rogers is arguably one of more powerful fighters Overeem has fought against. A smart fight for Overeem would probably be to take Rogers down.

I don’t think it happens. I like Rogers in an upset.

No line yet.

As “Big” Dan Mirgliotta was standing in the circle with both fighters on each side of him after Round 3 had concluded. Paul Daley threw his patented left hook at Josh Koscheck. Mirgliotta immediately jumped in and threw Daley against the cage.

Koscheck won all 3 rounds with take downs and basically laying and praying. A strategy I thought he would imply. It was the smart strategy.

In the last round with Koscheck in half guard, you could see Koscheck talking in Daley’s ear for the last minute.
Daley didn’t like the comments that Koscheck had for him.

Dana White says, “Paul Daley will never fight in the UFC again. He might as well get another job.”

White said, “I didn’t like his answer for why he did that either.” Daley’s reason for the late punch said via White was, “I didn’t hear the bell.”

Both fighters were landing what they wanted, Lyoto scoring two takedowns and probably the slightly better striking with some lunging knees.

Lyoto went for a straight right and Rua clips him in the ear and Machida goes down. Rua is instantly on top and lands a punch practically as Machida is going down. Falls into full mount, and Machida is grabbing the body, Rua lands 3 punches clean Machida is out with his head bouncing off the canvas.

Rua respectfully stops punching and Yves Lavigne pushes Rua off anyways.

My pick for Stephens to win over Stout was a winner. Stout had alot of combos, but was dropped twice and Stephens buckled Stout a few more times beyond that. Stephens had two or three takedowns as well.

On my card, Stout won no rounds, but Stout did have the better technical fighting by working the body and the lower leg kicks. In the end Stephens POWER was the difference and was accurately predicted by this guy.

Not that we didn’t know this already, but Stout can absorb the damage. Stephens would have dropped most fighters the amount of times he connected with Stout’s head.

Good job Jeremy.