Strikeforce Heavyweight Tournament: Is Alistair Overeem the Top Strikeforce HW?
Bleacher Report’s Leon Horne:
The moment many had been waiting for finally came to fruition this past Saturday night in Dallas,Texas as the second leg of the Strike Force Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal played out in front of a crowd of over 7,000 fans at the American Airlines Center.
The Strikeforce Heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem was making his third appearance in 4 years in a non-title fight to move on to the semi-finals of the tournament against Antonio Silva.
Most importantly, fans were finally going to see Overeem take on a legitimate top 10 heavyweight in mixed martial arts, Fabricio Werdum.
Overeem came out the victor with a unanimous decision over Werdum, but he certainly did not do much to impress his detractors.
Werdum, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt know for a slick ground game pathetically tried to get Overeem to the ground for all 15 minutes and quite possibly handed the Dutchman the victory by pulling guard at every chance he had.
Despite Overeem being able to rag doll and shrug off Werdum when ever he tried to get the fight to the ground, Overeem who is supposed to be the best heavyweight striker in mixed martial arts looked average in the stand up to say the least.