Report: Alistair Overeem To Have K-1 Fight 6 Week Prior To Strikeforce Bout With Rogers
by Kelvin Hunt on Mar 6, 2010 2:00 PM EST
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Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem is scheduled to fight a K-1 kickboxing match against Dzevad Poturak on April 3, just six weeks before he is supposed to defend his title against Brett Rogers at the May 15 Strikeforce show.
I posted yesterday that Scott Coker says he believes Overeem will fight for Strikeforce 3-4 times in 2010. While the likelyhood of something(other than a KO) happening is a bit slimmer in a K-1 bout, it's still possible that Overeem could get injuried or something. He could take a damaging leg kick, get cut, or potentially knocked out which would jeopardize the Strikeforce MMA fight in May. I hope Coker says his prayers every night as that's a pretty risky proposition when Overeem would probably be one half of the main event.
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I'll say it now
Overeem wont fight in Strikeforce again.
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If he was fighting somebody good I would agree with you. But he’s not. No worries
by Erich Vowell on Mar 6, 2010 2:14 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Yea
I realize he should win….but anything can happen in a fight…and if he doesn’t fight for SF in May…there’s no telling when or if he’ll fight for them.
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I Agree and Disagree
I agree because Overeem should have defended his belt long ago. I disagree because K-1 is paying him way more then Strikeforce is. I don’t want money to be taken away from fighters. Strikeforce should have a champions clause like SHOOTO defend your belt at least once a year or we take it.
This is becoming laughable by the min
by The Bronzeville Bully on Mar 6, 2010 4:26 PM EST reply actions
This is the big issue i have with non exclusinve contracts and strikeforce have had problems in the past. Granted a little different in nature but still stupid issues that should not happen. I speak of course about Nick Diaz. Diaz was set to take a fight in SF at LW and i believe it was like 5 or so weeks after a fight he had in dream in a different division (170 i think it was but im going by memory so i could be wrong). After the fight in dream he had to call SF and basically say i can’t make the weight.
The issue wasent that Nick just dident want to cut to LW its the fact at that point and time he had trained for a weight class higher therefore having a body that is suited for a different division. The reality is that Nick had too much muscle to fulfill his fight with SF. I believe they were angleing him towards a rematch with KJ Noons at the time.
Bottom line is MMA is a high risk sport and if a promotion is comfortable letting there guys fight any where at any time go nuts but don’t be upset with a fighter who cannot compete for you due to fighting in another place, the fighter is just trying to make money. As a promoter it is a duty to keep these guys fighting so they can pay their bills and not have them resort to fighting two different places in 4 to 6 weeks apart.
this is exactly why exclusive contracts are a must…especially for your champions.
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Agree fully
Now to be fair to SF i’m not to sure of Overeem is even intending on fight ing for them, but does not take away from the fact Overeem can wander over to Japan and lose a dozen times and make the SF belt be worth as much as a sack of pennies.
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