Alistair Overeem intervjuas om Fedor Emelianenkos comeback, och om hur Fedor undvek honom när de båda var i Strikeforce.
Alistair Overeem (40-14 MMA) intervjuades nyligen av sherdog.com kring Fedor Emelianenkos (34-4 MMA) comeback i sporten och om hur Fedor inte ville möta Overeem trots att Strikeforce försökte få till matchen.
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Sherdog: ”When the Fedor Emelianenko rumors started swirling around, did you feel that there was a chance that he was going to the UFC, or did you always feel that that was rumors at best?”
Overeem: “Well I don’t know, Fedor is nearing 40 years of age, I was hoping that he would come to the UFC, but he made his decision. I don’t know what it is going to mean, there is still matchmaking for him, but, I was excited for his comeback, definitely, that it was something that was going to happen in the UFC Heavyweight division”.
Sherdog: “I have seen various headlines that he turned down some fights with you in the past. Is that true?”
Overeem: “Back in Strikeforce when I was the Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, he declined, when he lost to Werdum, that event, Strikeforce approached him on a fight with me. He declined that fight. He said, him or his management, I don’t know, their answer was: ‘No we are not fighting Alistair at this point, we are going to fight Werdum, and Alistair can fight someone else, and when he wins his fight, maybe we will fight him after’. But then what happened was. He lost his fight against Werdum, I beat Brett Rogers, I defended my belt against Brett Rogers, then the fight was off and I continued into K-1”.
Alistair Overeem har fått en nytändning i karriären sedan han anslöt sig till Jackson Wink MMA Academy. Han har vunnit tre raka matcher i oktagonen, nu senast knockade han den förre UFC-tungviktsmästaren Junior dos Santos i den andra ronden av deras möte vid UFC on Fox 17: Dos Anjos vs. Cerrone 2 som gick i lördags natt svensk tid.
Fedor Emelianenko är av många ansedd som en av de bästa i sportens historia och gick obesegrad mellan 2000-1010 då han hann rada upp 28 raka matcher utan förlust innan han förlorade tre av fyra matcher under sin tid i Strikeforce och valde att pensionera sig. Emelianenko kommer att möta den indiske kickboxaren Jaideep Singh (2-0 MMA) i huvudmatchen vid Rizin Fighting Federations nyårsevent vid årsskiftet.
Vad tror ni läsare, vem skulle vinna en fight mellan Fedor och Overeem i dagsläget?
