An interesting tidbit is that “The Reem” was paying them nearly double what other managers make for their services. Typically, agents take anywhere between 10-20 percent of a fighters purse, but according to court documents, GG skimmed a whopping 35 percent off the top of each of Overeem’s checks before “The Demolition Man” even paid taxes on the sum. There’s a chance that the amount also included the portion paid out to his Golden Glory trainers, but such was not clarified in the papers that were filed today.
He is also asking the court to void the remaining contract he has with the Dutch-based management group. The fact that he has a lucrative fight with Brock Lesnar at UFC 141 on December 30 is likely the main impetus for him filing now, before he has to cut them a check for the bout.
Brock Lesnar’s aspirations of reclaiming the UFC heavyweight title goes through Alistair Overeem. The former UFC heavyweight champion will meet former Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem in the main event at UFC 141 in December.In a …
Brock Lesnar‘s aspirations of reclaiming the UFC heavyweight title goes through Alistair Overeem.
The former UFC heavyweight champion will meet former Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem in the main event at UFC 141 in December.
In a recent interview to promote the upcoming video game WWE ’12, which features the former WWE star as a playable character, Lesnar spoke on his upcoming bout with Overeem and he believes he will prevail over the Dutchman.
“Here’s a guy that is getting his chance to make his name in the UFC and unfortunately for him there’s a gatekeeper that stands in his way and that’s Brock Lesnar,” Lesnar said. “And I will prove on that night that I am, once again, and will always be, the baddest dude on the planet.”
Lesnar prepares to return to the Octagon after a second battle with diverticulitis that sidetracked him from a bout with heavyweight contender Junior dos Santos, and potential rematch with current champion, Cain Velasquez.
Overeem will make his much-anticipated debut after a disappointing stint with Strikeforce, that saw him released from the company after a bitter dispute regarding his contract negotiations.
“The Demolition Man” fought under the promotion for three years, holding victories over Brett Rogers and Fabricio Werdum.
In addition to competing in Strikeforce, Overeem has fought in several organizations worldwide, including K-1 and DREAM, and establishing himself as one of the most decorated fighters in the sport today.
UFC 141 is scheduled for Dec. 30, live from the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Brock Lesnar is finally making his way to the Octagon at UFC 141 after finally getting surgery to fix his diverticulitis.He hasn’t fought since his loss to Cain Velasquez in which he showed the same weakness he did in the Shane Carwin fight.The we…
Brock Lesnar is finally making his way to the Octagon at UFC 141 after finally getting surgery to fix his diverticulitis.
He hasn’t fought since his loss to Cain Velasquez in which he showed the same weakness he did in the Shane Carwin fight.
The weakness that when he gets punched in the face, he loses his game plan.
Now he is set to face Alistair Overeem, a former kickboxing world champion.
Needless to say, Lesnar is going to have to improve his weakness fast.
While it is true that no fighter can improve their “chin,” the fact is that the chin is not really what gets a fighter knocked out.
What really gets a fighter knocked out is a lack of using their legs, the angle of their chin, the angle their head gets hit and where their brain collides with their skull, and how many concussions they have had.
The first part of his problem is that when Lesnar starts eating punches, he tends to get stiff legged and backpedals.
Part of taking a punch is loosening the legs and allowing them to absorb the shock of any punches or strikes that are taken to the head. By doing this, a fighter can minimize the damage they take.
Lesnar also doesn’t tuck his chin which is another problem.
There are fans and pundits believe that the chin itself is what causes a fighter to be knocked out, but it is actually the angle of the chin and how it makes the brain swing into the skull.
Where a fighter gets hit will determine how it affects them.
When a fighter is hit their brain swings from their brain stem and smashes into the inside of their cranium.
Depending on where it hits the fighter takes certain damage.
Having the brain smash against the back damages the occipital lobe which impairs vision and makes it difficult for fighters to see.
The frontal lobe which is at the foremost part of the brain affects consciousness and voluntary motor control. If hit hard enough it makes a fighter lose consciousness.
So it isn’t so much the chin as it is a fighter not tucking their’s properly and letting one of those key areas get damaged.
The last problem Lesnar has is that he hasn’t trained in striking that much.
He is a former standout wrestler, but he hasn’t trained that much in standup. Being hit and absorbing the pain is a kind of conditioning. It takes a while for a fighter to train their body to withstand that pain. Lesnar obviously hasn’t done it.
And this is because he probably never has to.
He is a scary-looking individual. Most people wouldn’t think of punching him in the face and there is a good chance that most of his sparring partners don’t either.
Lesnar has probably never had to deal with people standing toe-to-toe with him and striking back and because of it and his lack of martial arts experience because no one has had the guts to do it.
Now he is going to face someone much like Cain Velasquez. A man who doesn’t have any fear of trading blows with him.
Except this time his opponent is going to be just as large as he is. In which case Lesnar might want to start getting his boxing sharp for his fight so he can stand up with Overeem.
Alistair Overeem was on MMAFighting.com’s The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani Monday afternoon and the former Strikeforce heavyweight fighter, who many speculated would be joining King’s MMA in Huntington Beach, Calif. after splitting with Golden Glory in the summer, revealed that he has instead decided to relocate to Las Vegas, Nev. where he will train at Xtreme Couture.
Although he wouldn’t reveal too much about the change in camps on the show, “The Demolition Man” gave more details of his decision to train stateside and what was behind his split with Bas Boon and company in the following episode of The Reem documentary, which was released minutes ago.
Check it out after the jump.
Alistair Overeem was on MMAFighting.com’s The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani Monday afternoon and the former Strikeforce heavyweight fighter, who many speculated would be joining King’s MMA in Huntington Beach, Calif. after splitting with Golden Glory in the summer, revealed that he has instead decided to relocate to Las Vegas, Nev. where he will train at Xtreme Couture.
Although he wouldn’t reveal too much about the change in camps on the show, “The Demolition Man” gave more details of his decision to train stateside and what was behind his split with Bas Boon and company in the following episode of The Reem documentary, which was released minutes ago.
(Video courtesy of Vimeo/TheReem)
It’s curious that Alistair would choose Xtreme Couture when the camp has an obvious deficiency in top-tier heavyweight training partners for him to work with save for Ray Sefo and sometimes heavyweight Randy Couture. XC is known for its wrestling pedigree, which Overeem has stated he would like to focus more intently on, so in that sense, the choice makes sense.
If you’ve watched the video, it’s an unfortunate situation that saw Alistair break ties with his management and trainers, but business is business and sometimes doing what’s best for one’s career isn’t what’s best for one’s friendships.
It will be interesting to see what changes to his game he displays in his upcoming UFC 141 fight with Brock Lesnar. Considering Randy has both trained with and fought Brock, he should be able to offer some first-hand insight on him.
While the UFC has been busy promoting the size of the two heavyweights in its UFC 141 main event, one of those two big men says there are some big stakes to go along with the December 30 bout.
According to what former Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, the winner at UFC 141 will get the next crack at the UFC heavyweight title.
“The winner of the fight between me and Brock [Lesnar] will fight the winner of Cain [Velasquez] and [Junior] dos Santos,” Overeem said. And though he declined to pick a winner in this Saturday night’s heavyweight tilt, he was not so shy about making a prediction for his own bout.
“You know what? I’m going to be bold,” said Overeem. “I’m going to kick that guy’s ass.”
But the supposed number one contender fight with Lesnar isn’t the only topic of conversation for the Dutch heavyweight these days. There’s also the issue of his split from longtime management team Golden Glory, which Overeem addressed in today’s episode of his web series, “The Reem.”
According to Overeem, he left Golden Glory because of a “major breach of trust,” and has now settled at the Xtreme Couture gym in Las Vegas as his new training home. As Overeem told Helwani, “I left the trainers [at Golden Glory] on very good terms, but the management not. The management, we left on bad terms.”
Overeem went into slightly more detail in the new episode of “The Reem,” explaining that the split was the result of many small communications leading up to one big one.
“Something happened that I found out by myself, which was not told [to] me, that was kept secret from me,” Overeem said in the video, before explaining that Golden Glory manager Bas Boon was not present for his final contract negotiations with the UFC.
“Because Bas wasn’t there, I hired a lawyer to go through the contract with me, step-by-step. What me and the lawyer found out was there were details in the contract which were to my disadvantage and to the advantage of Golden Glory, and which also were not explained to me by Golden Glory and particularly by Bas.”
Though Overeem did not specify exactly what that contractual “disadvantage” pertained to, he told Helwani it was “very serious and very sad,” and explained in his video exactly why he felt he needed to part ways with Golden Glory over it.
“This UFC contract is the biggest contract in my life. It’s the biggest moment in my life. The biggest fights are coming now, in the UFC. It’s going to be a very exciting couple of years coming ahead, and there cannot be miscommunications. It’s got to be clear. …Despite that they are good management to other fighters, maybe, I can’t judge about that. But for me they are not good management. They are bad management. They are harmful management.”
On the surface, it seems like a tricky time to change management and training camps. The fight with Lesnar at UFC 141 could very well be the most important fight of Overeem’s career, and he’ll be forced to prepare for it with new sparring partners in a foreign land.
As Overeem explained to Helwani, not only has Xtreme Couture welcomed him “with open arms,” but he’s not quite as reliant on an outside management team as some people might think.
“It’s not been a real burden, because basically I already did all the stuff myself. I formed my own team around me that basically took care of all my little headaches, my needs. I was already fixing up my own sparring partners, my website’s been done by my own team, I have my own guy getting me sponsors, ‘The Reem’ online is something done by my own team. Basically, I was already doing all my own stuff. People think that it is going to be a big deal for me to leave Golden Glory. Golden Glory did have a hand, of course, because they had some sparring partners and they were doing fight contract negotiations, but basically my own team already took care of it, so it’s not going to be a real big deal.”
As for Lesnar, Overeem insisted he was confident that the two would meet in the cage as promised, regardless of Lesnar’s recent struggles with illness. And while some fans might be obsessing over a video that showed a notably smaller version of the former UFC heavyweight champ, Overeem is expecting the same ferocity and power we’ve always seen from Lesnar.
“Brock is an amazing athlete. He’s a very strong guy, a very strong dude. He’s going to be at UFC 141 125 percent. That’s what I’m expecting. He’s going to be there full force, so some clip shot who knows when, where, whatever — I’ve not even seen it. I’ve got to imagine that if you’re going to accept the fight against me, you will be there 100 percent. In his case I expect 125 percent. He’s going to be motivated.”
While the UFC has been busy promoting the size of the two heavyweights in its UFC 141 main event, one of those two big men says there are some big stakes to go along with the December 30 bout.
According to what former Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, the winner at UFC 141 will get the next crack at the UFC heavyweight title.
“The winner of the fight between me and Brock [Lesnar] will fight the winner of Cain [Velasquez] and [Junior] dos Santos,” Overeem said. And though he declined to pick a winner in this Saturday night’s heavyweight tilt, he was not so shy about making a prediction for his own bout.
“You know what? I’m going to be bold,” said Overeem. “I’m going to kick that guy’s ass.”
But the supposed number one contender fight with Lesnar isn’t the only topic of conversation for the Dutch heavyweight these days. There’s also the issue of his split from longtime management team Golden Glory, which Overeem addressed in today’s episode of his web series, “The Reem.”
According to Overeem, he left Golden Glory because of a “major breach of trust,” and has now settled at the Xtreme Couture gym in Las Vegas as his new training home. As Overeem told Helwani, “I left the trainers [at Golden Glory] on very good terms, but the management not. The management, we left on bad terms.”
Overeem went into slightly more detail in the new episode of “The Reem,” explaining that the split was the result of many small communications leading up to one big one.
“Something happened that I found out by myself, which was not told [to] me, that was kept secret from me,” Overeem said in the video, before explaining that Golden Glory manager Bas Boon was not present for his final contract negotiations with the UFC.
“Because Bas wasn’t there, I hired a lawyer to go through the contract with me, step-by-step. What me and the lawyer found out was there were details in the contract which were to my disadvantage and to the advantage of Golden Glory, and which also were not explained to me by Golden Glory and particularly by Bas.”
Though Overeem did not specify exactly what that contractual “disadvantage” pertained to, he told Helwani it was “very serious and very sad,” and explained in his video exactly why he felt he needed to part ways with Golden Glory over it.
“This UFC contract is the biggest contract in my life. It’s the biggest moment in my life. The biggest fights are coming now, in the UFC. It’s going to be a very exciting couple of years coming ahead, and there cannot be miscommunications. It’s got to be clear. …Despite that they are good management to other fighters, maybe, I can’t judge about that. But for me they are not good management. They are bad management. They are harmful management.”
On the surface, it seems like a tricky time to change management and training camps. The fight with Lesnar at UFC 141 could very well be the most important fight of Overeem’s career, and he’ll be forced to prepare for it with new sparring partners in a foreign land.
As Overeem explained to Helwani, not only has Xtreme Couture welcomed him “with open arms,” but he’s not quite as reliant on an outside management team as some people might think.
“It’s not been a real burden, because basically I already did all the stuff myself. I formed my own team around me that basically took care of all my little headaches, my needs. I was already fixing up my own sparring partners, my website’s been done by my own team, I have my own guy getting me sponsors, ‘The Reem’ online is something done by my own team. Basically, I was already doing all my own stuff. People think that it is going to be a big deal for me to leave Golden Glory. Golden Glory did have a hand, of course, because they had some sparring partners and they were doing fight contract negotiations, but basically my own team already took care of it, so it’s not going to be a real big deal.”
As for Lesnar, Overeem insisted he was confident that the two would meet in the cage as promised, regardless of Lesnar’s recent struggles with illness. And while some fans might be obsessing over a video that showed a notably smaller version of the former UFC heavyweight champ, Overeem is expecting the same ferocity and power we’ve always seen from Lesnar.
“Brock is an amazing athlete. He’s a very strong guy, a very strong dude. He’s going to be at UFC 141 125 percent. That’s what I’m expecting. He’s going to be there full force, so some clip shot who knows when, where, whatever — I’ve not even seen it. I’ve got to imagine that if you’re going to accept the fight against me, you will be there 100 percent. In his case I expect 125 percent. He’s going to be motivated.”
The MMA Hour is back in your life on Monday with another loaded two-hour show.
* Alistair Overeem will break major news about his career and discuss his UFC 141 fight against Brock Lesnar.
* Mark Munoz will talk about his recent win at UFC 138 and what’s next for him.
* MMA Fighting’s Mike Chiappetta and ESPN.com’s Chuck Mindenhall will join us for another media roundtable to discuss all the comings and goings in the world of MMA and all the news coming out of UFC 138 and preview UFC on FOX 1.
* We will also address the future of MMAFighting.com and The MMA Hour with a guest to be announced on the show.
* Plus, we’ll give away two sets of the Ultimate Fight Collection, 2011 Edition. It’s a 20-disc DVD set that has over 40 hours of footage of UFC fights from July 2010-June 2011 and 10 hours of content never before available on DVD. It will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on Tuesday, Nov. 8. It will go to the best calls of the day, and the winners have to be United States residents.
So, give us a shout at: 212-254-0193, 212-254-0237 or 212-254-0714.
*** You can also stream the show live on your iPhone or iPad by clicking here.
Watch the show live below beginning at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT. Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: audio feed here; video feed here. Download previous episodes here. Listen to the show via Stitcher here.
The MMA Hour is back in your life on Monday with another loaded two-hour show.
* Alistair Overeem will break major news about his career and discuss his UFC 141 fight against Brock Lesnar.
* Mark Munoz will talk about his recent win at UFC 138 and what’s next for him.
* MMA Fighting’s Mike Chiappetta and ESPN.com’s Chuck Mindenhall will join us for another media roundtable to discuss all the comings and goings in the world of MMA and all the news coming out of UFC 138 and preview UFC on FOX 1.
* We will also address the future of MMAFighting.com and The MMA Hour with a guest to be announced on the show.
* Plus, we’ll give away two sets of the Ultimate Fight Collection, 2011 Edition. It’s a 20-disc DVD set that has over 40 hours of footage of UFC fights from July 2010-June 2011 and 10 hours of content never before available on DVD. It will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on Tuesday, Nov. 8. It will go to the best calls of the day, and the winners have to be United States residents.
So, give us a shout at: 212-254-0193, 212-254-0237 or 212-254-0714.
*** You can also stream the show live on your iPhone or iPad by clicking here.
Watch the show live below beginning at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT. Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: audio feed here; video feed here. Download previous episodes here. Listen to the show via Stitcher here.
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