Valentijn Overeem AMA

Be nice

Vera would be nice as well

The coding doesn’t let you make a dash

It turns it into an outline bulletpoint for whatever reason

were trying , thats the truth

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@MasterofMartialArts i shouldn’t have posted my lose notes, here is what I will be going off of

Valentijn Overeem

1995 Kickboxing
Remy Bonjasky L corner stoppage

  • Both 19 years old at time
  • Future 3x WGP Champion

When Allister was 15 VO took him to Chris Doleman’s gym

  • CD was promoter for Rings Holland
  • CD first Non Russian Sambo champion

Feb 18 1996
Rings Holland

  • Chris Dollman promoter
    Tjerk Vermamen W RNC
    TV - Team Hardcore

Jun 15 1996
Fight Gala
Jeroen Waringa W KO
JW Rock Gym

Feb 2 1997
Rings Holland
Masayuki Naruse W cut
“berserker” from Japan

Jun 29 1997
Rings Holland
Cees Bezems W heel hook
Co main event - big ticket seller?

Sep 26 1997
Rings Holland
Wataru Sakata L ankle lock
Lions Den on card

  • Frank Shamroch and Oete Williams

Feb 8 1998
Rings Holland
Chris Haseman W Dec
“the Hammer” - Australian legend
Co man
Gilbert Yvel vs Dirty Bob

Mar 7 1998
Night of the Samuri
Dexter Casey W Guillotine

Jun 7 1998
Rings Holland
Gilbert Yvel L shoulder injury

  • Gilbert Yvel - GG Amsterdam w/ Lucien Carbin
  • GY got kicked out and went to Vos Gym w/ Hippolyte
  • VO - GG Breda Cora Hemmers

Feb 21 1998
Rings - Japan
Kiyoshi Tamura L arm bar
KT U File Camp
Main event
Alexander Karelin - Akira Maeda

Mar 20 1999
Rings
Yoshihisha Yamamoto L arm bar

3 losses in a row

May 22 1999
Rings
Hiromitsu Kanehara W KO corner stop

Oct 28 1999
King of Kings

  • Block A
    Minitoro Nogueira L Keylock

Feb 6 2000
Rings Holland
Hiromitsu Kanehara L KO

Mar 5 2000
2H2H
Dennis Reed W Guillotine

May 20 2000
Rings - Russia
Achmed Labasanov L Achilles
AL Russian Top Team

June 4 2000
Rings Holland
Faith Kocamis W KO

Jun 15 2000
Rings - Japan
Brad Kohler W Knee bar

Jul 22 2000
Rings USA - Hawaii
4 man Tournament
1 Tuli Kulihaapai W Arm bar
2 Tommy Sauer L KO

Oct 9 2000
Rings King of Kings
4 Man Qualifier
1 Suren Balachinsky W KO

  • sambo world champion
    2 Babalu Sobral W Toe Hold

Dec 12 2000
It’s Showtime
Jerrel Venetiaan W heel hook

Rings King of Kings Final
Feb 24 2001
8 man Tournament
1 Yoshihisha Yamamoto W Heel Hook :45
2 Randy Coutore W Guillotine:56

  • current UFC champion
  • Coutore was reigning UFC champ
  • Beat Kevin Randleman
  • The fight was in a sumo stadium that had HUGE oversized toilets
    3 Minotauro Nogueira L arm triangle

60 pro fights and only been to a decision 2x’s
30 wins - 29 finishes - 1 Dec

Submitted Randy Coutore Ray Sefo and Babalu

Moved to Florida

Gilber Yvell won by arm bar

  • VO was beating him standing and even knocked GY down

Smokes cigarettes

Diababate - W Reverse Guillotine

Pride 15
Bas Rutten said that VO was a leg and heel specialist

Scariest sets of brothers in mma
Emellianko
Nogeira
Overeem

2004 UFC had 6 total heavyweight bouts

  • Pride had 90% of the top Hvy in the world

VO and brother AO Got into a bar fight with bouncers

  • AO got an infection on his hand from teeth being imbedded and almost lost it
  • Bas Boon managed AO at time

May 24 2013
Championship Fighting Alliance
Pulled out against Mike Kyle
Travis Wiuff filled in

IMO when fighting in Rings VO got some bad habits

  • He would burn “rope escapes” rather than fight a submission

Cornered brother in Cleveland
AO vs Stipe

Dutch style approach to sparring is very hard

  • did this affect him?

2013 Jun
Appeared in CHG (Cold and Hot Gloom) music video “street credibility”

2012 KSW - Poland
Replaced Jerome LaBaner on 2 days notice

  • Beat Marzin Rozalski by toe hold
  • Opponent was going for same VO in pain

Born in England
Jamaican father
Dutch mother

2011 Feb
Gave an interview and said that he would fight his brother

  • Dutch have no problem fighting teamates

Tengiz Tedoradze W :07 head kick

AUG 2014 StrikeForce (owned by the UFC) cut Maoea Coenen, Jon Olav Einemo and VO

  • they were trying to break Gilden Glory management team (FORZA)
  • Scott Coker stood up for the termination
  • Dana white publicly stated that they won’t do business with them because UFC pays fighters direct and fighter pays management- GG demands money and they pay fighter - Semmy last UFC fighter
  • Marloes Coenan publicly released her check stub that contradicted DW

Balachinskiy is a legendary sambo player

  • beat Fedor on multiple occasions in sport sambo

July 14 2004
Pulled out of main event at Cage Rage 7 Vs Michael Bisping

  • tore muscle in thigh while training in Cuba
  • Telefimo Lopez - Havana
  • Felix Savon - Santiago

UFC 102
Coutore - Nogueira
Had VA lost to RC, this fight would have taken place 8 years prior

Rodney Glunder

  • VO left the ring claiming that RG was greased

Assuero Silva work?

When negotiating with Rings how much different was it than with Pride

  • RyanVannDoom

Trainer Martijn De Jong

  • formed Glory Kickboxing
    Joop Kasteel
    Bas Rutten
    Semmy Schilt
    Trainer Lucien Carbin
  • 50 world champions
    Ramon Dekker

Dirty Dutch fighters
Gerard Gordeau
Gilbert Yvell
Dirty Bob Schrijber

Dutch Mafia
Kickboxer Andre Brillerman “Mean Machine” apparently was working as a bodyguard for one of the biggest drug cartels in Amsterdam at the time headed up by Klaas Bruinsma. Allegedly he had stolen some money from his boss while his boss was in prison.

Dirty Bob Married K1 world champion Irma Hoff???

  • Bouncer at BullDog famous hash/coffee shop
  • Has not showed up to fights due to being in jail for street fighting

The Fall of K1
Yakuza money laundering
K-1 founder Kazuyoshi Ishii jail in 2005 over tax evasion

  • after Sadaharu Tanikawa (sports journalist / croney of Ishii

Golden Glory founder Ron Nyquist

  • car bomb almost killed him
  • He kills twin brother Rob & Erik Driesson
    Rings promoter Akita Maeda
    Pride promoter Sakikibara
    Bulldog Hash Shop- Hank De Vries

Apy Echteld manager

  • Simon Rutz said that Apy hired a Hitman to kill him

Bas Boon - Vlad Finklestine

  • Bas Manages Overeem - golden glory owner

From a very early age in the sport Bas Rutten was doing commentary

  • how does he woke up on that roll

Don (yon)plass died in prison was one of the founders of Dutch kick boxing and provided security in the red light district

Frank (Freek) Hamaker competed at UFC 2 won and was replaced by Fred Ettish

  • worked in the red light district and had a very rough reputation

2005 reported that Fedora management was kidnapped during Pride negotiations

2009 Nov Mikes Gym burned down

Freek Hamaker was an adult theater owner that fought in UFC 2

Hans Nijmen - murdered 11/5/14 behind Dutch Top Team gym - name brought up in a lot of criminal cases

  • cornered Dirty Bib against Wanderlei Silva
    Willem Holleeder ordered murder