The MMA Hour With Overeem, Barry, McCorkle, Carmouche, Thompson

**Kemal** · 18-07-2011, 17:13

The MMA Hour makes its triumphant return on Monday. Here's who will be stopping by.

* Alistair Overeem will stop by to discuss his desire to fight one of the Klitschko brothers and his upcoming fight against Antonio Silva.

* Pat Barry will discuss his knockout loss to Cheick Kongo last month.

* Former UFC heavyweight Sean McCorkle will discuss his upcoming bout against Mike Hayes.

* Liz Carmouche, who faces Sarah Kaufman at Strikeforce Challengers on July 22.

* ProElite's director of fight operations T.Jay Thompson will talk about the promotion's return on Aug. 27.

* MMA Fighting's Mike Chiappetta will join us to dissect all the big MMA news making headlines recently.

Watch the show live below beginning at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT. Subscribe to The MMA Hour on iTunes: audio feed here; video feed here. Download previous episodes here. Listen to the show via Stitcher here.

**Ralph** · 18-07-2011, 20:36

Net even wat quotes van sherdog gechecked; klinkt weer als dik drama! Hopelijk blijkt het allemaal een storm in een glas water....

Just said with Ariel on mma hour. He won't sign for that date. Showtime and Strikeforce requested it he said it's to soon. Said they told him October and that's fine with him but they changed it and are really pressing sept 10 and he flat out said it won't happen. Not enought time on his part.

oh snap. He said Zuffa threatened to kick him out of tourament if he doesn't agree. Reem seems not happy at all.

... and now apparently he says Zuffa is threatening to release him if he DOESN'T fight on September 10. This is crazy!

He got to be kidding.

He was bitching (generally rightly so, too) about nobody to fight him in SF, and delays...

And now that they put next fight together in good time, he doesn't want to fight????

It's not like Werdum torn him down much...

And didn't he fight K-1 then Duffee like in one month, but now 3 months is not enough? Something weird is going on here... Maybe he is pulling a Nick Diaz stunt here.

Reem is ducking Bigfoot, end of story.

I'm sure 3 months is enough if he knew he had 3 months from the begining. If his camp was planned on an October date and now UFC wants him to push it up by 3+ weeks, I see the issue there

Silva has been training longer and pretty much preparing for Reem since his fight with Fedor. Reem knows this and knows that Bigfoot will probably beat him with the amount of training left before the Sept. 10 date.

lol why are people saying ducking? He said October no problem. He said he had some injuries, a broken foot, needed a bit of a vacatioin which he was taking before he was told Sept. And his training isn't correctly scheduled for Sept. Period end of story. He just said he'll fight OCT no matter what whether it's with Strikeforce or another company.

This isn't a bar fight people. Bigfoot has been training for him healthy for months.

All this drama is giving me fucking heart palpitations!!! I wanna see Reem wreck Sasquatch NOW!!!!

Etc...

**tik_tok** · 18-07-2011, 21:03

Is het al ergens te luisteren/zien?

**Pahlavan** · 18-07-2011, 21:33

Originally Posted by tik_tok

Is het al ergens te luisteren/zien?

het is altijd de dag erna (morgen dus) op hun website (mmafighting.com) te bekijken

**Pahlavan** · 18-07-2011, 22:00

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem has been a fighter under the Zuffa banner for only a few short months now, but already the relationship has become a bit strained.

Overeem told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour that he has not agreed to the proposed Sept. 10 date for the semifinal round of the Strikeforce heavyweight Grand Prix, and his opposition is causing some tension with his new employer.

"That is not going to take place," Overeem told Helwani. "Stikeforce has requested me to accept the fight for Sept. 10, to agree on that, but I have not agreed on it and I also had some emails, some questions asked, is the fight confirmed? No, the fight is not confirmed. I do not confirm it and I will not confirm it."

Originally, Overeem said, he agreed on an October return to the cage to face Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva in the next round of the tournament. He claimed he needed that time to recover from his last fight -- a three-rounder with Fabricio Werdum in the quarterfinals, which he said he went into with a broken toe -- as well as to properly prepare for Silva.

Recently he was informed that Strikeforce was targeting the date in early September, which Overeem deemed "too short notice," and rejected. Then the backlash from his new employers began, he said.

"What's going to happen next, I don't know. I've had some threats of cutting me out of the tournament if I don't participate. I don't know if they're going to do it. Personally, I don't like to be threatened. If people start talking like that then...be my guest, but then I'm really not going to sing to their tune."

Overeem said he's let his management handle all the negotiations and has not spoken directly with anyone at Strikeforce or Zuffa on the subject because he has a "too short temper to deal with people who can be disrespectful."

This is the first negative experience he's had with the new Strikeforce owners, Overeem said, but it's one that seems as though it could derail the relationship early on.

"For them to unilaterally declare, okay, [September 10] is going to be the second round, which I never agreed on, and then threaten me if I don't want it, it...doesn't really show a lot of respect," he said.

Overeem added that he was unsure how seriously to take threats that he could be cut from the tournament, but insisted he wouldn't be pressured into taking a fight before he felt adequately prepared.

"The fights that I've lost -- I'm not the guy going for excuses -- I blame myself. That is where this decision is coming from. I don't want to blame myself. ...What I do now is I [do] my homework, I make sure everything is perfect, and then I fight. With that formula I've had some great results in the last four years, and I'm not prepared to throw that all away because people pressure me."

If he is dropped from the tournament, Overeem said, he still plans to fight in October. He noted that his Strikeforce contract allows him to fight in other promotions, so he's already informed his management to make sure that he has a fight lined up -- either in MMA or even potentially in K-1 -- for October.

"The thing is, there's other promotions. There's other stuff I can do. K-1's going to come back. There's some good reports on that. There's some other promotions in the world that would love to have me fight. So for me, the respect thing is definitely a factor and it's definitely important."

As for reports that he'd be interested in a boxing match with one of the Klitschko brothers, Overeem acknowledged that he might need a few warm-up bouts first -- he currently has zero pro boxing matches to his credit -- but added that his K-1 experiences had only improved his striking skills for MMA, so perhaps some boxing experience would do the same.

"Boxing is a new challenge," he said. "Why not?"

In fact, the only fight he doesn't seem interested in is one on September 10. While some fighters might need to capitulate to promoter demands due to the state of their careers, Overeem said, he isn't one of them. He's still the Strikeforce heavyweight champion, and he isn't going to be rushed.

"I'm a fighter who likes to fight," said Overeem. "I love to be very active. I'm going to fight [in] October regardless. If it's not going to be for Strikeforce, then I'll fight somewhere else."

**R.H.** · 18-07-2011, 22:33

En gelijk heeft hij, 10 september is al over ongeveer 6 weken, Silva is al maanden lang aan het trainen dit slaat echt nergens op.

**justsomeone** · 18-07-2011, 22:59

nog 8 weken tot 10 spetember.
tijd zat om te trainen dus

**R.H.** · 18-07-2011, 23:20

Originally Posted by justsomeone

nog 8 weken tot 10 spetember.
tijd zat om te trainen dus

ik mag hopen dat je dat sarcastisch bedoelt?

**wrestler_nl** · 18-07-2011, 23:33

hier is de video mensen
graag gedaan

Video: Overeem Calls Into The MMA Hour Iron Forges Ironâ„¢

**bananenplukster** · 18-07-2011, 23:34

Het is denk ik een principe kwestie van beide. Zuffa wil laten zien wij "bezitten" de vechters en ze moeten er staan wanneer wij dat zeggen.En overeem(zie hierboven)

Goed dat hij voor zich zelf opkomt, mmmm in een andere topic hadden ze het over een overname van k1 door gg misschien heeft dit er ook mee te maken, en wil hij zich toch maar alleen concentreren op de k1 want zodra hij onder contract staat bij de ufc is het gedaan met zijn gevechten buiten de ufc