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Overeem by brutal knees to the body from clinch
I honestly don't understand. Why is it that Strikefoce has Rogers fighting instead of Fedor?
catman - I honestly don't understand. Why is it that Strikefoce has Rogers fighting instead of Fedor?
Why waste your biggest potential matchup while nobody knows who Overeem is?
You really think anybody remembers him from way back when he beat Buentello?
Let people get a look at him
Worst case if Rogers wins somehow, he gave Fedor enough of a fight they can sell a rematch.
Overeem will win this easily, Rogers has a punchers chance ill give him that though.
bdog7 - Overeem will win this easily, Rogers has a punchers chance ill give him that though.
Much like Mir, all those big muscles Overeem has given himself won't help him take a punch. Or defend a punch.
Not that he has an awful chin, but its a very ordinary chin.
Yawn
perfect way to introduce overeem to the casual fan and an excellent way to set up overeem vs fedor if he wins. i like it.
lol heres your reward for getting knocked out...
D_S_A -A few 100k people seeing Overeem on Showtime is really gonna send Fedor/Alistair into the stratosphere?catman - I honestly don't understand. Why is it that Strikefoce has Rogers fighting instead of Fedor?
Why waste your biggest potential matchup while nobody knows who Overeem is?
You really think anybody remembers him from way back when he beat Buentello?
Let people get a look at him
Worst case if Rogers wins somehow, he gave Fedor enough of a fight they can sell a rematch.
This will be very confusing for the casual fan.
They need to explain why Fedor isn't their champion but is universally ranked above him and why the guy that just lost to Fedor is fighting their champion.
I understand whats going on, but it makes their heavyweight title nearly worthless. An org needs to treat their titles like they mean something.
huh? how does the guy that just lost get the title fight over the guy that won?
orcus - A few 100k people seeing Overeem on Showtime is really gonna send Fedor/Alistair into the stratosphere?
it could
we all know that people love ridiculous muscular looking freaks like Overeem. look at the hype Brock had before he ever even did anything.
take all the people who already know about Fedor, and all their friends they might tell. add in everyone who gets a look at Overeem, and anyone they might tell.
better than literally no one knowing 1/2 of the participants in the biggest HW fight strikeforce will probably ever be able to make.
Damon i got a question. I get my MMA news mainly from fightline.com and they have like a section that has news from all the major sites and MMAweekly.com used to show up there, now it does not. well its been like that for a while.
Something happen there?
D_S_A -bdog7 - Overeem will win this easily, Rogers has a punchers chance ill give him that though.
Much like Mir, all those big muscles Overeem has given himself won't help him take a punch. Or defend a punch.
Not that he has an awful chin, but its a very ordinary chin.
what a turd!!! Alistair fights K1..
AOmonsta - Damon i got a question. I get my MMA news mainly from fightline.com and they have like a section that has news from all the major sites and MMAweekly.com used to show up there, now it does not. well its been like that for a while.
Something happen there?
Honestly I'm not sure. I haven't ever been there before, but I've never had anyone raise a stink about it or anything.
ARTISTofMMA -
what a turd!!! Alistair fights K1..
where, when he's not tossing around kickboxers like its an mma fight, he's busy getting dropped by 1 punch from heavy handed Remy Bonjasky
he's hardly invincible
It's just that all of yall's stoires were on there, I'm on MMAweekly less now because of it. It's just a small little thing i've noticed.
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So they promote Fedor as the best HW in the world, but instead of putting him against their champ they decide to give the guy he ko'd a title fight before him??
That won't confuse the casual fans at all...