http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/ A recent screen name on the UG posted a rumor that Brock Lesnar was going to pull out of the fight vs. Junior Dos Santos at UFC 131. The thread was moved to the What If forum. 24 hours later, Brock Lesnar pulled out of the fight vs. Junior Dos Santos at UFC 131. Now a new set of rumors has been posted: This is going to be a long post so bear with me... To all the haters keep hating I sill love you guys... As For My Sources none of your damn business there high up in vegas wink... As Zuffa Aquired strikforce they have stated business as usual which has not been the case... Zuffa has terminated mainly the whole strikeforce staff except 2.... Rich chou was well respected within the company by staff and fighters and will be sadly missed as he was being groomed for taking over strikeforce for scott coker... Scott Coker has not been happy about his staff getting fired and very upset about chou getting replaced... Scott did not like his demotion but being scott as he is he took it in stride and just like a good pr man he pretends its all good... Many within say Scott will be gone by december to presue other endovours and scott is just there too smooth over the transistion... Zuffa and Showtime once bitter enemies are now best friends... Zuffa has made inroads with showtime about making changes about the production... Gus Johnson And Mauro Ranallo are on the chopping block... Frank Shamrock is on the bubble and Pat Millitich and Stephan Quadros will be kept on for the challengers cards... Goldie And Rogan Are expected to take over duties in december.... There have been also talks of the tournament finals being Strikeforce first ppv this december and with ZUFFa like to DO 6 shows per year.. There have been strikeforce tourny issues things have not went off without a hitch.. Josh Barnett is not guaranteed but most within think with the zuffa brass at helm they can get it done and incase andrei arvlovsky will be on stand by... Allistar Overeem has had A rocky relationship with the coker regeime... Allistar was not happy with coker dicking him around with the fedor fight that was promised to him... Also Not happy with the long layoff between the rogers fight and some contractual matters... Coker extended an olive branch in obtaining Valentjn overeem to smooth t Now the next part is rumor there have been rumblings and info changing daily on this... My sources are tight lipped... But the overeem vs werdum fight is not guaranteed... Ive asked about injury but zuffa has been coy with info being leaked... Ive been told dont be surprised if overeem pulls out of the tournament and relinquishes the championship... Overeem could possibly be crossing over to the ufc... This would make the Tournament finals for the championship and makes a debut ppv more interesting... This as i said is rumor i know there have been talks and the fight is not cancelled and is still official but was told dont be surprised... This can change daily so I will try too keep updated with more info as I find out more but its not a guaranteed more to come... Mixedmartialarts.com WERE running this story on their site. How much of it is true i don't know. Highly speculative of course. Make of it what you will.
Would not be suprised 'if' this was true. Make sense to get Overeem on PPV ASAP as opposed to the free shows But personally Id like the see the GP come to it's conclusion
Overeem in the UFC would be mahoosive. I can see the UFC Zombies going nuts for him. He should have been in the US market years ago to be honest. That said id also like to see the GP run its course. But its looking more and more that's unlikely to happen.
Unless they feed him a Kongo type can in his 1st fight so the UFC can get the hype rolling I think the GP would be better advertising for the US market being on free TV But having said that, I know who he is so **** the idiots, I want to see him in the UFC ASAP!
Personally i want both. Id like to see him win the GP. And off the back of that walk into the UFC and beat Carwin/Cain/Brock/Mir and JDS over the head with their torn off limbs. The UFC realistically could make ALOT of money of Overeem and Dana knows this.
I think it's just a question of 'When' anyway. I think a Overeem v JDS fight would reinvigorate MMA HW division which has lost its lustre since PRIDE
i would actually like to see alistar overeem in the UFC even tho he doesnt have the best resume in MMA. i would like to see fedor there as well but i dont think it will happen. and the GP has gone on for to long it would be better if there wasnt to much time between fights even tho i can understand why that is.
Whoa? Who is this diety they call Overeem? Did you guys forget that he got KOd by Kharitonov who is still in this tournament? Overeem is a great fighter and all, but in that tournament we also have Werdum, Bigfoot and Barnett. Do we really want to scrap those possibilities?
He didnt get ktfo, he slipped because they changed the mat to make sure he lost Now **** off BeeKeeper
What does that have to do with anything? First off id bet my house you've never seen that bout. Secondly why don't you mention their first encounter when Overeem turned Kharitonov's face into a side of beef with brutal knee's? And thirdly what relevance does that have on the GP? That's right none. Pretty much like most of your posts.