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Alistair Overeem Tired Of Waiting For Strikeforce, Booked K-1, Planning On Return To MMA In Spring

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem (33-11) says was tired of waiting for the Strikeforce organization to book his next fight. Instead of waiting for them to book a fight he decided to go to Japan and compete in K-1’s kickboxing tournament.
Overeem had been looking forward to defending his Strikeforce title against the winner of […]

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem (33-11) says was tired of waiting for the Strikeforce organization to book his next fight. Instead of waiting for them to book a fight he decided to go to Japan and compete in K-1’s kickboxing tournament.

Overeem had been looking forward to defending his Strikeforce title against the winner of last summers Fedor Emelianenko vs. Fabricio Werdum bout, even flying out at the last minute to greet the winner.

Werdum would pull off the upset but would not commit to an Overeem bout, opting to have elbow surgery instead. A possible match with Fedor could have been booked but the Russian wanted an immediate rematch with Werdum instead.

Overeem will now participate on the Dec. 11 K-1 World Grand Prix Final event in Japan after winning his initial opening bout. He earned a TKO win over Australian Ben Edwards at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Seoul Final 16 event.

The latest the Dutch fighter could return to mixed martial arts might be the Dynamite!!! New Years Eve event in Japan, but that leaves him only a few short weeks to prepare for an opponent.

As for a return to Strikeforce, Overeem doesn’t plan on making his return till mid-late Spring.

“I will be ready for Strikeforce as soon as I would say April, May, June…I already fought Brett [Rogers] coming out of a loss to Fedor. People gave me a lot of [expletive] for that. ‘Yeah, you’re a fighting a guy who lost, this and that.’ I’m not interested in doing that anymore. Let’s stick to some sort of ranking and that rankings tell me Werdum beat Fedor. Now, in my opinion, Werdum is No. 2 and Fedor is No. 3, I would say [Antonio “Bigfoot”] Silva is No. 4…. I have not loss my patience because the thing is I’m just going to do K-1. I’m not going to sit there and wait until somebody wants to fight me. I went to States to challenge people openly and I’m getting a no from Werdum and I’m getting a no from Fedor.”

Overeem was a guest on The MMA Hour over at MMAFighting.com, check out the full episode once it’s posted which should be today or tomorrow, which also includes interviews with Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro, Stephen Quadros, Marc Ratner, and Ben Fowlkes.

Through the MMAges: UFC 1 & 2: The Birth of a Monster

I know nothing about MMA.
For the uninitiated, the excellent TVTropes is a perfect place to start.

“Mixed Martial Arts (often referred to as “cage fighting”) is a combat sport that incorporates techniques from a wide r…

I know nothing about MMA.
For the uninitiated, the excellent TVTropes is a perfect place to start.

“Mixed Martial Arts (often referred to as “cage fighting”) is a combat sport that incorporates techniques from a wide range of other combat sports and martial arts styles, with the three basic pillars of the sport being striking, wrestling and submission grappling. Thus, […]

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Through the MMAges: UFC 1 & 2: The Birth of a Monster

I know nothing about MMA.
For the uninitiated, the excellent TVTropes is a perfect place to start.

“Mixed Martial Arts (often referred to as “cage fighting”) is a combat sport that incorporates techniques from a wide r…

I know nothing about MMA.
For the uninitiated, the excellent TVTropes is a perfect place to start.

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Through the MMAges: UFC 1 & 2: The Birth of a Monster

No longer chasing history, UFC 123’s Matt Hughes says fighting all about fun

One of only three fighters to have ever successfully defended the UFC’s
welterweight title, Matt Hughes’ spot in MMA
history is secure.

Among the most dominant fighters of his generation, the 37-year-old
Hughes readily admits he’s in the twilight of h…

One of only three fighters to have ever successfully defended the UFC’s
welterweight title, Matt Hughes’ spot in MMA
history is secure.

Among the most dominant fighters of his generation, the 37-year-old
Hughes readily admits he’s in the twilight of his career and that
fighting is now more about having fun than winning titles.

That said, special opportunities do sometimes present themselves. And
while he had planned to take the rest of this year off after a busy
2010, the opportunity for a third fight with B.J. Penn was enough for Hughes to make a change of plans.

Video Evidence: Japanese Fighter KOs Ref, Appears to Suffer Very Minor Consequences

(Vidprops: YouTube/TheGRACHAN)
The Japanese MMA scene might be slumping into the second decade of the 21st Century, but the Land of the Rising Sun is still the industry leader in unrestrained mayhem and total batshit craziness. Props to MMA Fighting….

(Vidprops: YouTube/TheGRACHAN)

The Japanese MMA scene might be slumping into the second decade of the 21st Century, but the Land of the Rising Sun is still the industry leader in unrestrained mayhem and total batshit craziness. Props to MMA Fighting.com’s resident gaijin Daniel Herbertson for passing along the above video of a lightweight fight last week in the Grachan organization … and the unexpected rampage that occurs immediately following it. If we only knew word one of Japanese – instead of spending all four years in high school and two years in college studying German, which turned out to be a waste of everyone’s time – we could give you a bit more context here. Just being big, dumb white guys, we’re going to have to take Herbertson’s word for a lot of it.

Here’s the Reader’s Digest condensed version: According to DH, Grachan is a Japanese promotion that (as you can see) uses a cage and prides itself on its "hardcore" image. In the vid, the dude in tights (Takeo Shiina) gets clowned by the dude in board shorts (Jung Hyun Lee) during their prefight stare down at Grachan 5. Lee does some head-waggling and kiss-blowing and then comes out of his corner at the opening bell with a Mitrione-esque grin on his face. Shiina doesn’t take too kindly to it. At all. Just a minute or so into the fight he KOs Lee with a left and then goes absolutely ape shit. When veteran referee Samio Kimura dives into the line of fire to call for the stoppage he gets a hammerfist to the back of the head and a knee to the ribs for his trouble. Shiina is eventually restrained and in the aftermath we can’t help but notice some important cultural differences …

Wednesday’s UFC 123 pre-fight press conference open to the public

The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s long-awaited return to Michigan is
nearly upon us, and the world’s biggest mixed martial arts promotion is
kicking off fight week with a pre-fight press conference that is open to
the public.

The pre-event presser …