Alistair Overeem joins Xtreme Couture, says he's "Committed to the U.S. Market"
Posted on November 7, 2011, 01:16 PM by Joey Santosus
Top Heavyweight contender Alistair Overeem has joined the Las Vegas based team Xtreme Couture in preparation for his UFC 141 showdown with Brock Lesnar.
Overeem made the revelation today during his appearance on "The MMA Hour."
A long time member of Holland's famed Golden Glory team, Overeem announced his split from the camp in September, citing a "breach of trust" as his reason for leaving.
"I would like to make a statement regarding the recent news of the separation from my long-time management Golden Glory," Overeem stated via Twitter. "As with any relationship, there are good times and bad times - you have your common ground and your differences. As with any relationship, you have trust. When differences lead to a breach of trust, there's no turning back and no way to continue a positive, working relationship."
News of his departure from the team came shortly after the former Strikeforce Champion was signed to fight Brock Lesnar in December, leaving Overeem just months to prepare for the most high profile bout of his career. Though the Dutchman says he visited multiple well-respected gyms, it was the welcoming atmosphere that made Xtreme Couture the idea location for his training camp.
"My feeling was that they welcomed me with open arms," said Overeem. "That is the one thing I like about Xtreme Couture, it was just relaxed straight up. I don't like attitudes in the gym and that wasn't there. ... Lets just say for the time being I am with Xtreme Couture and I'm going to be in Vegas. I'm committed to the States and the American market."
As for his strained relationship with Golden Glory, Overeem declined to go into much detail on the matter, instead directing those curious for answers to the latest episode of "The Reem" documentary. He did, however, dispel rumors that the UFC's earlier business dispute with the team played any role in his decision to cut ties with Golden Glory, "No, that relationship (between the UFC and Golden Glory) had nothing to do with it. It has to do with me and Golden Glory. A major breach in trust between me and Golden Glory."
Overeem vs. Lensar will headlined the stacked UFC 141 fight-card set to take place December 30th from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also featured will be a Lightweight clash between top contenders Donald Cerrone and Nate Diaz, as well as a Welterweight tilt pitting Jon Fitch against Johny Hendricks.
Further Reading: Bas Boon prepared to take legal action following Alistair Overeem's departure
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Comments
Awesome - makes you wonder about how Fedor would have done if he had the right training. I think Overeem is going to get great training over there.
Yeah, like fedor had a bad carreer
It would have been cool to see Reem go to Rashad camp the "Blackzillians" they have a beast team but you can never go wrong at Xtreme Couture
He did in he US
It's amazing that people would weak that. Fedor was 28-1 before coming to the US, and 3-3 since. He has been finished in his last three fights. That is a bad career in the US.
Many people somehow forget Fedor fought in USA for PRIDE
One of the smartest things I've heard in MMA for a long time, put aside pride and friendships for excellence. Randy is the perfect man at the moment to help Overeem 100% with training (especially wrestling) as there is no chance of them fighting.
Randy has fought Brock and even matched him in the wrestling so Overeem has made a perefect choice here.
Even more interesting since Randy helped Brock train too (for Carwin, I think).
Not to mention Randy has actualy fought Brock so, he should be great help for Reem
Good point totally forgot about that
i dont think Randy can help Reem on this fight, he's over in Bulgaria shooting the Expendables sequel
I feel that Brock will look like a smashed tomato this time..
Overeem hinted at false extra payment going to golden glory, of which he didn't know anything but it was in the contract.
Dana's wright about golden glory after all, after digging a little into golden glory, the founder was en is still in jail and off course pulls the strings from behind the bars, not the team to feel relaxed about.
Owner Ron Nyqvist serves 20 years for killing two brothers who tride to bom him, ron belongs (d) to violent drug traffickers gansters.
So good the reem is the ufc without gg, he always delivers exciting fights !
O.k except his last one, imo the reem bandwagon is gonna fill up again after the brock fight !
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Nyqvist
I think he would have done great with kings mma but xtreme cotoure is a good camp. Best of luck to reem
Is it just me or is Dana / UFC seeming less like a **** recently?
**** = rhymes with pick and starts with "d". Wow, that's a strict censor.