Alistair Overeem wants fight with Dos Santos next

[Soulbringer320]

Anton Tabuena: How excited are you to judge that ring girl search for UFC: Manila?

(Overeem then gets informed by the PR crew that he actually won't be able to participate anymore because of his busy schedule)
Alistair Overeem: Dammit! I'm good at that stuff! It's one of my talents!
Anton: You've competed a lot in Asia throughout the years, would you have wanted to be part of this upcoming UFC: Manila card in May?
Alistair: Well, my last fight was 3 rounds of 5 minutes. Even though I didn't take that much punishment, my body was still a bit sore but also from all the months of the training. I did 3 fights in 6 months, so that's basically no rest and just working all the time. So I felt that I needed to take some time off and heal my body.
That's done now and we're actually going to look for the next fight.

Anton: Speaking of the next fight, there's been been talk about a match up against Junior Dos Santos. Has that been offered?
Alistair: Actually, my management is talking (with the UFC), and I hope to hear about it this week. About Junior, I can say it's a great fight and it only sounds logical to me because he's not booked for a fight, I'm not booked for a fight. Who else is there? There's not really any option available.
Anton: So what are your thoughts on that potential match up? How do you stack up to him stylistically?
Alistair: I think it's going to be a very interesting fight. He's a striker and prefers to fight on the feet, as well as I do. But I do believe I am more versatile. I have submissions, I use my legs, I am more strategic now -- especially now that I'm training out of Greg Jackson's, we work a lot on game plans, strategy.
I just see myself as the better fighter, but still, Junior is still a special case. He's a former champion, he's very tough, and you saw that on his last fight against Stipe (Miocic). He can take a lot of punishment and even if someone is pushing the pace, he can survive that. In every way, it's a very exciting fight and a very challenging fight personally.
Anton: When are you targeting to return?
Alistair: I'm thinking June, July, or August. Nothing too far away.
Anton: Obviously you're under contract with the UFC, but do you ever miss kickboxing?
Alistair: I don't. Simply because there's no challenges. I went into K-1 in 2009, actually 2008 for the Badr (Hari) fight. After that, we competed twice in the K-1 GP and beat basically everyone there. It was always my goal to go back to MMA because my passion is there.
The move into K-1 was very big at the time. It was very special to me. I liked it. It was different. It was only striking, no ground, so it kinda changed my fight style a little bit. But I think now, I'm at an age where I have 5 or 6 years left. Now it's all about the UFC title.
K-1 is no longer there. You have Glory, but to me, they're not really interesting.
Anton: Speaking of K-1, you were collecting belts from everywhere just a few short years ago, then you hit a bit of a rough patch. What do you attribute that to?

In my career, I've been training now for 21 years, and fighting for 18 years, and it has always been that way. For example, before I had that 6-year winning streak, I also came from three losses in 2007 and 2006. That was also a very bad time. What was happening then? My mother had cancer, and I became a parent. She was a lovely daughter, but she was a crybaby.
That was like 6 months with no sleep at night. And the house was not that big. It was a small house. She wakes up, everybody wakes up. But that's life; it's ups and downs. All you can do is give your best, maybe give 110% and just be thankful with what you have.
Anton: After that you switched camps a bit, but what would you say is the biggest adjustment since then?
Alistair: I moved to the states, and that was a big thing for me. I moved to Miami and I joined the Blackzilians. For me at the time, it seemed like the best logical solution, but sometimes surrounding yourself with new people is not good. Sometimes it's inevitable because you may think it's good but it turns out it's not good. It's highly subjective too, for other people that can be good, but for me personally it's not. It was actually very bad, and you can see that in my results. I had two losses, and for me it was time to broaden my horizon and start making some changes.
Anton: So since moving to Greg Jackson's what has been the biggest change there?
Alistair: When I moved to Greg, I already made several changes. I actually was planning on moving sooner, but I was fighting Frank Mirand he was training there so I couldn't move and had to put those plans on hold. I just did my own thing, with my own coaches, and my own sparring partners. That already was a huge change, and you can see it on my Frank Mir fight, which was a very good fight I think. It was a dominant performance, but there was already a change there. Later, Greg and Wink came on board, and it continued to change.
The change already started before, but they added their mix of thought to it -- game planning and strategy and high altitude thing that they have. Now it's all better. Together with these two wins, I do believe that the title is coming into sight.
Anton: How much do you weigh right now, and how much did you lose since the Lesnar fight?
Alistair: I'm 248 now, 250. Against Lesnar I was at 257.
Anton: Was that intentional? Was it a conscious effort to work on speed or cardio?
Alistair: Yep. Brock Lesnar was a big guy, he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of that extra muscle because you don't want to be thrown around like you're nothing. But right now, if you look at the top of the heavyweight division, you see Cain, Werdum, Junior dos Santos. All these guys are 240 lbs, maybe 242 or sometimes even 239. They're smaller so cardio is a big factor, and that's what makes you win or lose a fight. So I put cardio on the top of that list, and it's a priority. I have to be very fast, and very strong, not just strong for the first round. Because they may survive the first round and then the fight happens on the third or on championship rounds 4 and 5. You have to have the cardio to do that. It's all about the cardio.
Anton: Like the Roy Nelson fight?
Alistair: Yeah, he was aiming for round number 2 and round number 3. This was his mistake. He tried to do it on round number 1 but I also damaged him a lot and stopped him in his tracks. He was just thinking ‘get to round number 2 and then I've got him', but he didn't get me. Then his mind was probably ‘okay, I'm now at round number 3', but he didn't and then the fight was over.

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[BIG Lebowski]

Goed idee, komt die pot er eindelijk. Dan zal ook de onzin stoppen over Alistair dat hij niet zou durven. Het kan zo maar zijn dat ie Junior volledig sloopt. Ik heb nu al medelijden met het gezicht van Junior dat er weer erg fraai uit zal komen te zien.

[Nosferatu187]

je kunt beter medelijden hebben met alistair als hij echt van plan is tegen hem te vechten.

[Klassikl]

Zou het dan eindelijk? Zou nog altijd een mooie partij zijn, ookal zijn JDS en Overeem beiden totaal hun 'bigger than life' aura kwijt.

Winnaar van deze partij tegen winnaar van Browne vs Arlovski voor volgende titleshot?

[T15Boxing]

Ik wil het nog steeds heel graag zien. Het is duidelijk dat Alistair hem een tijd lang ontweek, mischien heeft hij hoop gekregen door Miocic gevecht?

[LightHeavyWeight]

Dit moet ook gewoon gebeuren.

[Pahlavan]

Ik wil het nog steeds heel graag zien. Het is duidelijk dat Alistair hem een tijd lang ontweek, mischien heeft hij hoop gekregen door Miocic gevecht?

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Het was tegen Miocic duidelijk te zien dat JDS (helaas) niet meer dezelfde vechter is als voor de gevechten tegen Cain. Denk dat Alistair zoiets heeft van als ik toch tegen hem moet vechten dan is nu het moment.

Hoewel Alistair vooruitgang heeft geboekt sinds hij bij Jackon's traint, lijkt het mij niet dat hij beter kan incasseren en ik kan me gewoon niet voorstellen dat JDS niet 1 harde stoot weet te landen tijdens het gevecht. Dat kan waarschijnlijk al genoeg zijn om te winnen.

Maar goed, leuke matchup in ieder geval!

[tarantula]

Ik zie alistair hier echt niet winnen jds heeft een k.o. stamina en een harde hoofd, overeem geen incasseringsvermogen en zijn stamina is niet beter als die van dos santos, ik geef hem alleen een kans als hij heel slim weet te vechten door geen slagenwisselingen aan te gaan en een paar goede knieen middentrappen weet te landen en wat goede lowkicks om jds te vertragen, en dit allemaal terwijl hij jds 's aanvallen vermijd.

[el mustafa]

mismatch van de eeuw , niet doen alistair .

[T15Boxing]

Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat het geen main event van 5 rondes is en ik geef Alistair alleen een kans als het 3 rondes is.

[Soulbringer320]

Wat gebeurd er als The REem JDS op de grond krijgt.....?
JDS op de grond weten we niet echt toch ?

[SnerkeL]

16-03-2015, 14:12#109SnerkeL

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Overeem heeft een goede kans denk ik. Al zal JDS hem wel wat vaker raken dan Nelson. Maar ik vind vooral JDS t.o.v. een jaar geleden een ander verhaal. Die gast heeft toch behoorlijk wat stoten mogen wegkoppen. Na ieder gevecht begint hij er steeds enger uit te zien. Overeem heeft betere cardio nu en ik denk echt dat het Overeem zelf nu ook een stuk beter uitkomt dan een jaar geleden. Heeft weer wat zelfvertrouwen getankt, amper schade. En als ie verliest, keldert hij niet ineens heel veel plekken terwijl als hij wint wordt hij een behoorlijke contender.

[SnerkeL]

Bij mij post van 16 maart blijf ik. Overeem is beter in vorm en heeft weinig te verliezen, controle houden en er is niets aan de hand. War Overeem!

[Klassikl]

Bij mij post van 16 maart blijf ik. Overeem is beter in vorm en heeft weinig te verliezen, controle houden en er is niets aan de hand. War Overeem!

Niets aan de hand? JDS heeft in 13 partijen in de UFC, tweemaal verloren. Beide keren tegen Cain.
Maar voor Overeem is er niks aan de hand .

[tyson19]

Goede pot in ieder geval, ik zeg 50-50, iets in mij zegt allistair. Hoop op een Cinderella man story, het zou mooi zijn als hij zijn carrière eindigt met een ufc titel.

[jantje11]

Goede pot in ieder geval, ik zeg 50-50, iets in mij zegt allistair. Hoop op een Cinderella man story, het zou mooi zijn als hij zijn carrière eindigt met een ufc titel.

Die kans had die op UFC 146 kunnen hebben.
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