Marloes Coenen talks Alistair Overeem and Golden Glory
Posted on April 26, 2012, 12:19 PM by Mike DrahotaThis Saturday, Marloes Coenen will headline the inaugural Invicta FC 1 in Kansas City. She recently had some things to say concerning her former Golden Glory teammate Alistair Overeem, who was just denied his license to fight by the NSAC. Having been cut by Zuffa following their fallout with Golden Glory last summer, Coenen pulled no punches in her comments, saying the following via mmaweekly.com:
“I’m with Golden Glory; so when he calls them bad he indirectly talks bad about me. It makes me look like a person who can’t make good decisions. If he wants to leave the team, I’m fine with that, he’s a grown man and can make his own decisions. But don’t stab them in the back and make them look bad when they’ve worked so hard for you.”
It appears Coenen has a strong sense of team loyalty and feels resentful over Overeem's leaving the team. She went on to describe the loyalty that Golden Glory showed him, and her feelings about how he has lied concerning his current situation:
“When Alistair got the deal with the UFC, he abandoned Golden Glory. He said he wants to surround himself with smart people, but you know what happened yesterday, I don’t know how smart those people are. He said a lot of lies and it was really hurtful for me because I know what happened He said they weren’t a good management team, but I know what they did for him. When he lost five fights in a row a long while ago, Martin de Jong stuck with him and believed in him, and the same goes with the management.”
There have been many detractors of Overeem that have come out recently, but this is the first time a former teammate has spoken up about the situation. Coenen is obviously offended, are her strong feelings justified?
Further Reading: Alistair Overeem denied license by NSAC for nine months
Comments
Daaang.
Marloes Coenen vs Anabolistair Overoid for Openweight title.
Cool beans Marloes...cool frickin' beans.
used to be Overeems fan, but i lost all my respect for him
Am i the only candid person here who always thinks there's a logical explanation to all that and that nobody ever cheated ?
Is that Ronda's manager mocking Tate with her old hardware?
wow totally meant Coenen... I failed
The picture is from Shiphol airport in the Netherlands when she returned home with the Strikeforce 135lb belt.
He never lost five fights in a row.... He lost three. I hate it when people lie or exaggerate.
She makes some good points, but some things are just sad. One (as Titan above me pointed out) he never lost 5 in a row. He lost three in a row, and they were to 3 of the best 205 lb fighters in the world at the time. Second, don't act like him failing for Testosterone usage would never happen at GG. He was there for his entire body transformation from 230-235lb fast HW, to 265 lb monster.
AO lost 3 in a row but he lost 5 of 7 on the trot and also 7 of 13 to the end of that streak.