Quick Quote: Fabricio Werdum is not too excited about fighting Alistair Overeem
Posted on January 9, 2011, 06:58 AM by Anton GurevichHow are the trainings going? Are you 100% recovered from your injury?
From the injury I’m totally recovered, but I still ain’t on my best physically. I’m training enough to get it back. Everyday I go to Huntington Beach to train with Rafael (Cordeiro). I train with him from 11am to 1pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I have a special training with Jason Miller and Mark Muñoz. We do a sparring and train Wrestling with Muñoz.
You’ll face Alistair Overeem, a guy you’ve submitted in Pride, in 2006, on the fisrt round of the tournament. What are your expectations for this fight?
The expectations are as high as they can get. Being trained I can fight anyone. I’ve changed my mind. Before I entered there thinking about my opponent, now I get there thinking of me, how I’ll get to him and what I can do. We both evolved a lot. Overeem evolved a lot on the floor and he’s stronger and more experienced. When we fought in 2006, I pretend to do it for a while, fooled him a bit (laughs). Now I’m training a lot my bang but it still isn’t good for me to bang with him. The guy has just won K-1, so I’ll try to go for the ground, even because he was training his bang a lot and he didn’t have enough time to improve his ground game for this fight with me.
Both Kharitoov and Arlovski has beaten you. Do you think about fighting them again?
What I think about is a rematch with Fedor. I wouldn’t like to give Overeem this rematch, I’m just fighting because the event matched this fight. To Fedor I’ll give this rematch happily, because I like him and he deserves this rematch. But first I have to think about how I’ll beat Overeem so that rematch can happen. - Tatame
It looks like Fabricio Werdum is not too excited to get Alistair Overem in a Strikeforce Heavyweight GP Quarterfinals. The are expected to square off sometime in March, as a winner will fight either Fedor Emelianenko or Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. Werdum (14-4 in MMA) is currently unbeaten since his UFC release, victimizing Mike Kyle, Antonio Silva and Emelianenko.
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he doesnt want to fight overeem, cos he doesnt want to be dead
Yeah, I wouldn't be too excited about getting my ass handed to me by the reem either...
Lol ya partyboy...I wouldnt be too excited either to face Overeem the guy who put one of his opponents in a comma with one knee n KO'd the rest in the first round
WHERE IS THE WARRIOR SPIRIT!? COME ON WERDUM!!!!!! WTF!!! WERDUM SOULD BE HAPPY TO FIGHT A GREAT FIGHTER LIKE THE REEM. I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND THOSE FIGHTERS ANYMORE. IM JUST SAD THIS IS THE KIND OF FIGHTER THAT WON AGAINST FEDOR
Fedor didn't rock Werdum in their fight. Fabricio fell after a combo by Fedor, knowing he would follow and punch in guard. Fedor fell for it, and won't do it again. The trouble is that fight prob won't happen, cuz Overeem won't fall for it either. Unlike Chael Sonnen, great fighters learn from being subbed.
Overeem has horse meat written all over his face, i'd be scared too.
How...do any of you even get that out of what was said? He sayshe'd rather fight Fedor because that's pretty much the more important match to him, not because overeem is omg invincible..HE BEAT THE GUY!!!!!
Werdum didn't get lucky in that fight at all. People don't watch the fights it seems they just hug the leg of whoever is popular.
I agree that Werdum's victory over Fedor is legit but Overeem is a much different fighter than the guy Werdum beat four years ago. A kimura is a very difficult sub to pull on a guy that is significantly stronger than oneself. I think that fight might go differently now. That said, whatever Werdum may be thinking I definitely give him an edge on the ground.
Ok Mad, u must be on your periods once again, that was a light comment on my part. Here a heavy one, Overeem would demolish Werdum now and his only chance is on the ground, submission cos i dont see werdum ground and pounding alistair. Some guys dont realize how reem evolved technically and physically.
Considering he was able to lure Fedor (undefeated in 10 years with 30+ wins) into his game, Werdum got lucky. Who would've thought someone as experienced as Fedor would fall for the oldest BJJ trick in the book. Granite, he was strong enough to hold and submit him, I'm still surprised Fedor jumped in guard without Fabricio being rocked. You can almost see Werdum smile as he's falling into guard.
A kimura is pretty difficult period to pull off from the bottom..that was sorta worthy of shaking your head actually. Wonder what people will say if werdum wins that fight again
I just have a feeling Overeem will not win this tournament either Barnett or Fedor will be a handful
is the title on the line in this tournament?
I think they said on MMA live that it will indeed be on the line. Makes a lot of sense in my opinion, Werdum has earned the shot by defeating Fedor, the winner of Fedor-Silva should anyways be next in line after that and thus fights the champion in the semifinals. The prize for the lower bracket of the tournament is a shot in the finale. Well thought out.
The title will be carried through out the tournament. for example; Overeem will defend his belt against Werdum, in the opening fight. And whoever wins that fight will be the Champ and go on to defend the belt in the semi's against Fedor/Big Foot. and so on. There will only be one Champion when it's all said and done.
What did they say about whether the title fights would be 5 rounds or not? I think I saw something about where they were trying to figure out how that would go.
I heard from whotheman.com that whoever is fighting in a bout with the person who has the belt will have a 5 round fight. For example:
fedor vs big foot silva is 3 rounds.
Ubereem vs werdum is 5 rounds.
Say like werdum and fedor won their fights so they advance in the bracket. Then they would be fighting each other. So werdum would currently have the belt. That fight would be 5 rounds.
well duhh, hes about to fight incredible ****ing hulk with a P.H.D in Kick boxing, ofcourse he wont be too excited
I wont be too excited about fighting fedor again as well cos he would beat him this time and pretty easily. Dont think Fedor would get caught again. Fedor fought like he had a bus to catch, rushing without caution.
Reem is scary now so i dont blame him.
Haha funny take on that.
If that is really Werdum's state of mind and not some kind of misinformation or psychological game then he will lose. It sounds like he might be a little scarred.
Werdum also said, regarding the way that the bracket was set up, that Strikeforce believes that he will beat Overeem and that Fedor will beat Bigfoot, so that he (Werdum) and Fedor will fight in a match that they can sell on PPV.
Uhhh.... I think he has it confused. He really believes that fans want to see that rematch over a Fedor-Overeem fight. I wouldn't mind seeing a rematch, but would much rather see the Reem face Fedor if I had a choice.
On MMA Live also I kind of got the feeling that Coker expected Fedor and Overeem to meet.
werdum should definitely fear overeem's bang
i think Werdum is totally looking past overeem which is very very dumb. He said that SF is betting on him to win so they can set up Fedor vs Werdum 2, the guy is delusional..
That makes sense to him since he beat the two best guys there.
a question i find myself asking alot is how has the reems ground game been affected by his massive weight gain he cant possibly be as flexible as he once was. you can see that it has affected his striking he is much slower than he once was and his movement is gone. if werdum can take him down which is a big if and can tie him up enough that reem just cant power out of it will reem look like a turtle on its back
Gaining muscle only inhibits flexibility at first. If you maintain a good stretch routine you get it all back. I know guys that are absolutely huge who can do full, groin to the ground splits. As for his speed, Overeem has already said that he intends to slim down for MMA due to the length of the rounds. That should help with his speed and endurance. In K-1 he was more concerned with power because of the shorter rounds.
that answers my question nicely thanks for the intelligent response
OH YEA....! How is it that Mark Munoz trains with everybody! That boy is everywhere!
I'm still not on the Overeem boat. This fight can go either way. I don't know if it's going to be 5 round fight, what i think it will be. I can see Werdum winning this fight in the last three rounds. Overeem is dangerous in the beginning rounds. I'm predicting a lot of wrestling from Werdum to slow down Overeem and take the power out of his punch then either going for a sub or decision.
i hope he breaks overoids limbs,he couldnt win without his roids thats why he does them.
i hope fedor wins
Too bad he is not that exited about his next fight. I understand him a little though...fighting Overeem is no walk in the park, even if he wins there is great chance he might be injured bad and he'll have to wait 6months to a year before fighting again.
I don't think that he is scared of Alistair, he is probably hungrier for a rematch with Fedor so he can prove that he wasn't just lucky in their first encounter.
He also believes that fighting Fedor is a more fulfilling experience for him as a fighter due to the fact that Fedor is much more well-rounded as a fighter (and a name) than Reem who is an MMA fighter with decapitation power in his strikes and "ok" ground game.
Also why does everybody rule out Werdum against Alistair. This is MMA, not K-1. If things go to the ground it is Werdum's world and anything can happend. If they stand-up and trade...well....you know the rest....
Вердум проиграет Овериму. Его хитрость в предстоящем бою ему не поможет.
לעזאזל thats לא רלוונטי הוא זה? Atleast הריקודים העוף היה MMA בנושא??
And colon semi-colon too.
You don't know that! If the fight goes to the ground, anything can happen.
btw... I don't speak Russian, Ι just used google-translation :-p
Roids are for fakers, not fighters. Alistair doesn't give a $#!+ about that.
Werdum all the way.I can see him pulling it off again.Mentally Werdum is very strong and even Fedor admitted to that before their fight.If you followed his fights during the Pride days you will notice that.Overeem trained with Remy Bonjasky for his fight with Fabricio Werdum and still Werdum could stand with him and even backed him up.I see Werdum standing with him for a while then going for the submission. The Reem is an awesome fight no doubt but mentally he is not very strong. Even Mark Coleman spoke about that.He said Overeem is a beast but he needs to sort out his confidence during fights.Werdum all the way
I'm with you buddy, Werdum all the way
I did not read that Werdum said he was afraid of fighting Overeem. But he has been avoiding Overeem as with Fedor/ M1, otherwise, we would have seen them fight Uber by now.
If it goes to the ground, then Werdum may have a chance, but I have never been impressed with Werdum's takedowns, or his wrestling.
Overeem will keep it standing, and Werdum will go to sleep. A huge improvement I see in Overeem are his knees. One good Ubereem knee and you are holding your gut waiting for the lights out punch.
Perhaps those who post here should take some time before writing again and learn a little grammar and spelling.I read these posts a lot and am ashamed with the level of intelligence. If anyone happened by here, i could understand why the stigma of retard or punch drunk might fit fighters and fight fans. Come on up lift the low brow...
Less important to spell or punctuate properly online than to make a valid point imo.
Werdum can never be ruled out as we seen wit Fedor.... but it's really hard see the reem been beat at the moment.....
werdum won't last in the stand he needs to take reem down and fast. Easier said than done reem will catch him with a hook and KO him