Alistair “The Reem” Overeem claims his ignorance is the main culprit in his failed drug test, and it didn’t help that his doctor was the silent type regarding what really makes up that fateful anti-inflammatory medication he took for his “aggravated…old rib injury.”
Ignorance of an “incidentally” banned substance being mixed with a doctor-prescribed medication has been the in-fashion excuse by athletes across many sports. Think baseball’s Barry Bonds, among others.
Isn’t “ignorance of the law excuses no one” an old legal principle? Heck, it traces its roots all the way back to Aristotle, more than 300 centuries before Christ!
Well, sure it wasn’t exactly the law that The Reem was ignorant of, but the presence of testosterone in that injection.
Actually, as the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) hearing revealed, Overeem was so aware of the law that he tried to flee from its enforcement. And another old legal principle is “flight is an indication of…”
Anyway, ignorance of the law or its possible violation is, in my layman’s book, the same banana.
Now lest we sound legalese or Ancient Greek here, let’s hear from someone who is a legit constituent of the MMA community.
Sounding like a spurned lover, er, I mean former teammate at Golden Glory, fighter Marloes Coenen squeals that, “If you do stuff like that and get caught, just like Alistair now, just suck it up and don’t complain about it. I think the truth will always come out. We know a lot of things about Alistair, a lot of negative things, but we never talked about it and knew that the truth would come out. More dirt will come up.”
She adds, “Alistair will receive his punishment for what he has done, and we don’t have to deliver that to him because karma will come and get him.”
Indeed Coenen, coming from the same stable of horses, must know if Overeem’s taking more than horse meat. She seems to validate Mark Hunt’s same line of thinking that Ubereem is actually guilty of PED use, and “everything that Alistair has done is meaningless now.”
Fortunately for The Reem, he’s not alone, and one of MMA’s most prominent loudmouths (unlike his doctor) has come to his defense, like a black knight in shining armor.
Chael Sonnen basically states that the media is making us fans misinformed in the same way that Overeem was, well, “malinformed” by his Dr. Feelgood and could really be innocent of any wrongdoing.
Is it a surprise that the so-called real UFC middleweight champion is on Overeem’s side on this failed drug test issue?
Well, to paraphrase that old saying, “With defenders like Sonnen, who needs critics?”
After hearing from our fighters of both sexes, let’s now hear it from an überspecial niche of today’s MMA fanbase.
This man represents the musically talented segment of the MMA community, which is different from the mere musically-inclined, who might as well be all of us.
Don’t we all get pumped up when we hear Hans Zimmer’s score while watching the new UFC opening video? And before that to Stemm’s “Face the Pain” song of UFC’s former Gladiator video of not-so-long ago?
Don’t we get all fired up by the entrance songs of our fighters who are blessed with impeccable taste in manly music?
Remember Dave Herman’s double treat of “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” by Boy George followed by “Macho Man” by the Village People? Or Mirko Filipović’s “Wild Boys” by Duran Duran?
We MMA fans are true music lovers, but not all of us can make good music. In fact, only a select few belong to this elite, small circle.
The rest of us are to Kimbo Slice what the oh-so-few of them are to Junior dos Santos.
And so this lengthy intro finally leads us back to our new discovery, who’s a singer, songwriter and pianist rolled into one. (So you think MMA athletes are the only ones who can mix ‘em up, huh?)
Patrick Boerner AKA MMABurner AKA Burn Dizzle also jumps in the fray of Overeem’s drug-test debacle—via solo voice and piano.
Burn Dizzle, whose UFC 145 Jon Jones vs. Rashad Evans Hype Song (embedded video No. 2) was aired by Sherdog.com’s The Savage Dog Show radio show on April 18, expresses his musicality, vision and opinion on Overeem through his new song Alistair Overeem – What’s That in Your Ice Cream? (Go watch embedded video No. 1!)
Here are the full lyrics, all caps his, bold letters mine:
Alistair Overeem,
you look like a dream.
Could it be just from munchin’ on horse meat?To be honest it seems,
there’s more to your scheme
than the horse bites you put on your ice cream.And you said
that you didn’t know it was juiced.
And maybe that’s true,
YOU SHOULD’VE STILL ASKED YOUR DOCTOR!!Alistair Overeem
You look like a dream.
Could it be just from munchin’ on horse meat?You got two slices of bread,
Now add Mr. Ed—that’s the regimen he recommends daily…
He could have waffles and eggs,
but Alistair begs for the legs of Seabiscuit in gravy.You better be careful what you put in your ice cream, yeah.
Yeah, Overeem, you better heed Calvin’s slogan: “Be careful or be roadkill.”
Our artist’s on a roll with the “frozen delights” motif in his lyrics. First it was “better not take his sno-cone” from the UFC 145 song, and now we have Overeem’s “ice cream.”
Calling Carl Jung!
You can check out Burn Dizzle at his website MMABurner.com.
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