Overeem confirms Brett "The Grim" Rogers fight on May 15th
Posted on March 1, 2010, 08:47 PM by Daniel CassidySpeaking today, Strikeforce Heavyweight Champ Alistair Overeem has officially confirmed that he's scheduled to fight Brett Rogers sometime in May. While no official word has been received from Strikeforce, Overeems himself said:
"He's an excellent opponent," Overeem said of Rogers. "I'm looking forward to smack his face and his loud mouth. I'm really happy that Strikeforce came with this fight so now we can settle things once and for all."
Alistair "The Demolition Man" Overeem was originally rumored to fight the Pound-for-Pound King Fedor Emelianenko. According to the Dutchman, as long as Fedor's management decides about who he is going to fight, the bout is not going to happen anytime soon. :
"Fedor doesn't want to fight. His manager doesn't want to fight. That's basically the message I'm getting out of all of this. The management said, 'Yeah, we want to fight Alistair, but first, Alistair must fight somebody else.' Basically, you need two parties to agree on a fight. Otherwise it's not going to happen."
The event will take place on May 15th, and is expected to be a non title bout. Overeem is yet to defend his belt since defeating Paul Buentello to win it in 2007. It's uncertain why the title is not on the line. Rogers holds an impressive 10-1 record, his only loss coming against Fedor Emilianenko.
Source: MMAJunkie.com
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Non title bout??? WTF? If Overeem is fighting then his BS title should be on the line, and he should be fighting Fedor.
Dude I know... non title?? Overeem is such a little girl... it's been 3 years since a heavyweight title fight...
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I don't care. I'm just excited about this fight!!
"Alistair "The Demolition Man" Overeem was originally rumored to fight the Pound-for-Pound King Fedor Emelianenko. According to the Dutchman, as long as Fedor's management decides about who he is going to fight, the bout is not going to happen anytime soon."
I wonder why...
It would actually pose to be a challenge so of course the bout is not going to happen anytime soon.
maybe cuz he doesnt want to fight someone who uses sterioides? iono just a thought. and plus fedor should be champ not punk ass overeem. fedor has actually been fighting while overeem won the title and pussed out
there is no way Roger should get a title shot, he just got kotf by fedor in november but if there is no title on the like whats the point of this fight
whoever clicked weak on Ninja should get a big kick in the balls for being too stupid to realize hes totally right.
The stupid people with dented egos here should leave and never come back.
Well honestly Rogers getting a title shot after losing to the greatest fighter of all time makes more sense then Maia getting a title shot after beating someone barely in the top 10 and being KO'd the fight before.
instead of writing that post u coulda just clicked sharp and made the 1 weak rating go away like so
Jesus dude, stop sucking eachothers dicks. I've effin told you before to quit that ****ing bromance.
lmao, I sence some jealousy there little guy.
Its called FREINDS lol, its obvious you dont have many.
2ndly you cant tell anyone anything toughguy
Dude, its like banging my head against the wall reading your sorry ass comments.
Fedor beat Rogers so no, he does not deserve a title shot but quit slobbering on Fedors ball sack!
Rogers its a beast, he could of beaten fedor guys!!! he just wasn't as agressive when fedor was lost from the punches. Good Match
You guys dont have a fking clue how titles are scheduled do you?
Overroid, should not be fighting Rogers for a non title bout!
No one should fight Overroid at all unless it IS a title bout, and it certainly shouldnt be Rogers. Fedor is the top guy in line for that fight & that shot, this is why among other crap that M-1 is sick of their noob asses and I cant blame them.
there difference is that while Fedor is not the champion of SF he is the champion of the world, imo Fedor's fight with Rogers was a title fight for Fedors crown, he lost that fight so now he gets to fight for a normal championship belt, rather then Fedors crown.
I thought this fight was between Overeem and Rogers!
How does Fedor fit in the conversation. He obviously doesnt want the title shot for obvious reasons so just leave it alone.
Hopefully it is not a title bout because they are stripping it from his pimply roided out ass. I hope Rogers smashes him. But the fight won't happen as Overoid can't pee clean.
if overeem is off the juice at the moment, he will be able to pee clean in the time frame there is between that fight and now
i dont care about title fight or not!!! overeem doesnt defend his "belt" for 2 years and that means for me Strikeforce have no HW champion at the time!! we all know why he dont want to fight in the USA and i dont think this fight will happen!!!
I think I agree, the fight between Rogers and Fedor should have been for at least the interim heavyweight Strikeforce belt. If a fighter can't defend his belt in over a year than the next two top contenders should fight for the new champion. Then at least if Overeem kept a needle out of his ass long enough to pass a piss test he could of fought to unite the belt.
lmao what a joke
We will see if this fight ever happens. The obvious steroid use of Alistair might get him caught, but he might also get through the drugtests, seeing as it is not too hard if he gets his cycles right etc. Plus they cant do random tests on him because he is training in Holland.
So IF he manages to get through the drugtests, is that really a fight we wanna see? First of all, a NON title bout? Secondly, do we wanna see Rogers potentially get his career ruined because of losing to someone who is obviously cheating?
We have to remember, aliistair was being knocked out left and right in Pride at 205 pounds, and at the time i remember thinking "why are they still keeping him around?" but NOW at 265 (!) pounds he is a huge monster who is seemingly unstoppable, even knocking out respected champions in k-1.
The steroids has revived alistairs career, and i think its not being punished hard enough by the fans. Most people are letting him off the hook way to easily.
Which page is this out of your book?
Although it's absolutely retarded from a fan perspective, not having Overeem defend his title is the only way that Strikeforce can keep the public thinking of Fedor as being the best HW associated with their promotion.
If the HW belt is on the line and Fedor is not holding or defending it, it sends a message that he is not good enough to hold or contend for it. Its a crock! We need to see Fedor-Overeem this year for the title.
Fedor and his management want Overeem to fight someone else to prove that he is roid free before Fedor rips his arm off. This sets up a very nice fall/late summer fight between the two.
It's not a title fight because if rogers KTFO Overeem then we dont get the fight we want to see.
Nobody can blame Fedor for not wanting to fight Overeem right away...let Overeem come back to the USA and pass some drug tests first ...
Fedor was fighting the roid heads in PRIDE, how is it any different than right now???
see josh
In Pride, Fedor was in his twentys and crazy enough to not care about career-ruining injuries. His broken hand is the proof of that. Now in his thirties (still in his prime physically), he has grown mentally enough as a fighter to pace himself and not jumping in to face the any sterroid freak that comes along with the hope to dethrone him.
He has proven himself... he doesn't need that anymore. He now wants his fight to have class, excibit technique, and not just a bloody onslaught.
All sounds pretty 'strOke farcical' title wise to me, but the fight itself should be good. Overeem's dangerous but I think Rogers has a really good chance of beating him. Overeem's knees are lethal but Rogers' hands are better and judging by his good work on the ground with Fedor, he'll handle Alistar there.
rogers is gonna be the new SF champ, which means Rogers v Fedor 2
wow this is the fight i wana see just gona show how good Overeem is
Strikeforce is just lol .....
Thy let overeeem fight after 2 years and its not a tittle bout?
Thats just sad haha !
Overeem wil win this fight btw knee to the head !
This is a good match up but i have mixed thoughts. Sure Brett shouldn't get a title shot after a lose so what's the point?
Does anyone think this or Overeem's actions would be tolerated in UFC?
overeem and barnett are in the same sinking boat. you not being able to sanction is not the same as someone not wanting to fight you...
what do you win when you beat these idiots? nothing. unlike the status that would be lost with a loss. idiots are idiots and need to stop talking like anyone cares about them. such a joke.
strikeforce is a joke for not taking the belt by force by now. the dude clearly ran to japan to hide and cycle and refuses to come back for a reason. his name starts with an F.
M1 is to fedor what don king was to Mike Tyson.
Fedor own's M1
He doesn't own M1 just a small part of its shares... that mafia leach Filkenstein owns it.
WOW! I am beginning to think Strikeforce like Dana White said, DO NOT HAVE ANY MONEY! This is ridiculous! UFC better get Fedor! He will make them $$$$$$$~
Agreed! bt I don't see that happening until next year at least...but who knows!
WOW! I am beginning to think Strikeforce like Dana White said, DO NOT HAVE ANY MONEY! This is ridiculous! UFC better get Fedor! He will make them $$$$$$$~
one of the best UFC fighters Hendo went to Strikeforce i don't see any one going to UFC soon ewhen Musasi leawing M1 he didn't say he will go to UFC
They don't go to the UFC because they can't. Get a clue.
Strikeforce is 20 years in front of UFC they havent got womens devision yet
strikeforce is garbage in comparison to the ufc.. And alistar is right. fedor's management hand picks fights for him. no way fedor should even be considered in p4p ranking. i mean i don't even think he is the best hw out there.
Also if you say he has beaten five ufc champs so he is the best your a moron. those fighters suckd. and if you want to break it down lyoto machida fought 4 ufc champs one of them current and beat them all and is truly undefeated so. please fedor fans make another argument.
The new name is StrikeFarce. What a joke! Dude above that was not directly saying it but was eluding to it, the UFC is way ahead of StrikeFarce. 20 years behind??? Ok
All the guys that say Fedor is not good or in the top 10 P4P fighters are wrong but I do agree that he is not the best P4P nor is he the top HW out there but this fight should be between him and Overeem. If he wants the title he should go get it not make excuses not to fight for it.
No I am not talking about Lesnar being the best either... he is a joke too! Look for JDS to be in the top spot soon.
Ide say let Fedor fight him, IF he can pass a drug test and whats required of him. I bet it wouldnt happen.
fedor/werdum is still interesting, and rogers/overeem is also im still looking forward to both
BWTETER BE FOR A TITLE OR THIS IS TEH GHEYSZ
Not sure why people care about this not being for the title...it's obvious overeem, rogers, fedor,strikeforce or anyone actually INVOLVED cares about the heavyweight title.
And tons of MMA fighters, if not all, use some kind of performance enhancing drug. Don't be so insanely naive, there are hundreds of different kinds of "steroids" and it's impossible to test for them all. If someone does it properly, they won't get caught.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Sherdogcoms-Pound-for-Pound-Top-10-18571
I agree with you but from now on can you please seperate your text with paragraphs? It is really hard to read through such a big text if it is not seperated... (that is a general request of mine to everyone who likes to write a lot, myself included!)
WoW this thread got ugly, I defintely wont add anything else to this mess.
Its safe to say, we all have opinions.
Peace out everyone!
Fedor foght 3 top10 fighters. Fedor haters stil caant give me one UFC HW fighter with 3 top 10 fights
UFC bosses are the real Italian mafia they got like 18 Casino's
Jokeforce...
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