What fights have you watched today?

Yeah he's not even a small HW, he's a huge HW so boiling down like he did was stupid.

He'll never be considered a great LHW but he could well be one of the top ten h2h HW fighters in history.

 

I just think cutting that weight was something he didn't need to do. With his size and dimensions he didn't need to be a LHW especially the way he kept gassing and being knocked out.

I think the fact he is grossly more successful as a HW proves that as well.

 

Fedor would have ragdolled him. We know Hunt wouldn't have done, nor Kharitonov, nor Werdum. Filipovic would have been an interesting one. Nog probably beats him as well.

But look over at UFC at this point. Sylvia and Arlovski get hammered by him.

 

Couture I can agree with, he was definitely worth the hype imo. He was brilliant in his prime.

Sylvia, Arlovski and Rizzo though I don't see having much success against Reem. Statistically 1 in 3 probably knocks him out but I think in each individual match he's the better fighter.

I don't think he transitioned into a better fighter post 2010, I think he trained to the wrong weight and that goes hand in hand with his conditioning issues.

He's always there to be clipped and he's always gonna fade late on, but I feel as a HW he takes a better shot and fades later on.

I mean look Athens guys he's beaten: Kharitonov, Belfort, Hunt, Werdum, Lesnar, Mir, Struve, Dos Santos, Arlovski. All as a HW. Meanwhile his only losses are to Kharitonov (he's beaten him), Miocic (he's the champ) and then 3 bad losses to Rothwell, Browne and Silva.

So as a HW he only has 3 damaging losses compared to the amount of losses he suffered as a LHW.

 

People can put on weight easily though. Especially someone with the frame of Overeem. Look at his size now, there's no reason he couldn't have been that size 10 years ago.

When he bulked up he was much better imo. Losing to Liddell and Rua is no shame, but some of the other fights he lost I think would have been avoided had he carried an extra 20 pound.

For someone with stamina issues the last thing they should be doing is cutting 20 pounds of muscle.

 

He's always going to be a glass cannon, absolutely. I just think the glass is more prone to be shattered at 205 pounds.

As a HW you could argue him one of the best ever with his win list, at LHW it can't even be seriously debated.