CroCop+ Sergei Kharitonov over Alistair Overeem vs Big Foot

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http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news...nd-prohibited/

Cro Cop: Reem owes his excellence to something dirty and prohibited

The Croatian MMA portal FightSite.hr interviewed Mirko 'Cro Cop' Filipovic about Alistair Overeem's loss to Antonio 'Bigfoot' Silva on Saturday night at UFC 156.

"I wasn't surprised by Silva's victory at all and I had believed he would win," said Cro Cop. "I don't want to come off as a smart-ass or say I knew it all along, so I'll explain why I'd believed so. First, Silva is a big tough guy with a huge heart who had demolished Fedor and he needs no better reference than that, and Alistair hugely underestimated him and belittled him with his arrogant statements, so this mobilized Silva in the best possible way. Second, Silva is a natural heavyweight, and Alistair - for the first time since way back in 2007, when he began to gain huge weight – fought without the drugs he had used constantly for years, including testosterone and all the other s--- that goes with it.

"Watching the weigh-in, I saw that his muscles mass was nowhere near his usual, he had the weight, but he wasn't nearly as carved out and defined, since he couldn't take anything because he was watched by the Athletic Commission. This also reflects on the psyche of a man who's been using stuff to increase his strength, endurance, pain tolerance and aggressiveness for years, and now there was none of that. Alistair is an excellent fighter, but he still owes that excellence to something that's dirty and unpermitted, and, in the end, very dangerous to health.

"I don’t think he was concerned by that, he wanted success at any cost. And the third thing is, Alistair had behaved so arrogantly that someone needed to put him back in his place. His belittling of Silva was repulsive, saying that after beating up Silva he'd go for the belt, and at the weigh-in and entering the arena he acted like he invented the fighting sport, and he's been behaving with so much arrogance lately that I'm glad Silva put him back in his place and taught him a lesson!

"Congratulations Silva, from the heart!"

ik pikte dit op van Bas Rutten zijn facebook, erg jammer dat Rutten (hoewel ik nog steeds fan van hem ben) zo negatief blijft doen over Overeem sinds zijn vertrek bij Golden Glory. (hij heeft dit niet gezegd, dat weet ik, maar laat alleen de negatieve dingen horen / zien mbt Alistair) Hypocriet op zn best zal ik maar zeggen aangezien Ali eerst een god was en niks fout kon doen, en sinds hij weg is bij Golden Glory is Rutten echt bezig met dit soort praktijken, zwart maken. Te veel zijn emotie's laten merken ipv objectief blijven.