Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White takes issue with the ranking of Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem, among the top 10 fighters in the world.
Overeem has won five straight mma bouts and hasn’t been defeated in nine. Despite the Dutch fighters record, White feels his victories were hollow coming against lower ranked fighters. He also feels that many have ranked him so high do to his success in K-1 as a kickboxer, a much different sport than mma noted White.
“I actually find it hilarious that he’s ranked in the top 10 by some of the websites. I find it hilarious. What has he done in MMA to be ranked in the top 10? I’d like somebody here to answer that question. We’ve got a lot of media guys here; what has Alistair Overeem done to be ranked in the top 10 of mixed martial arts’ heavyweight division? How do you figure because he’s such a good K-1 fighter (that) he can parlay that into being a mixed-martial-arts fighter?” an exasperated White asked. “That’s what makes the mixed-martial-arts media [expletive] stupid – that they would even rank this guy in the top 10 because he’s fighting in K-1. That makes absolutely no [expletive] sense, and I would love to hear somebody make sense of this guy being ranked in the top 10…How bout the fact that he’s fighting in K-1, where you just kick and punch? There’s no wrestling, there’s no this, and there’s no that. How does any credible [expletive] MMA guy put him in the top 10 in the heavyweight division? It’s hilarious.”
The whole issue arose during last weekends post UFC 122 events when White was asked if he might seek out Overeem for the UFC heavyweight division.
HT: MMAjunkie.com