Strikeforce: Alistair Overeem vs Fabricio Werdum | June 18, 2011

Come on let's get started, both fighters are bigger than their last Strike Force appearances, they are over three pounds heavier than when they fought Rogers, they are damned seven and A2 pounds bigger than when they defeated Funeral Million Enko, it's seeing Doom coming out with the punches, that's what he has to do, he can't stay on the end of the punches from above him, above him, get low and low, he has all his power right there. verom training is amazing with top muay thai trainer hael cordo nice bra on top verom says. get up he's right again oh catch the kick let him fall again oh that's got to wear on fabrio's nerves you know see doom said he was his son after he defeated him in 2006 i don't think he's going to get a Day card of overing's father fesio verdom told us I want to do this fight on the ground Alistair told us well I'm not going to go to the ground like he was going there he is the strength the strength of alista overing and beo is telegraphing by taking down, not preparing, in Absolutely, he's nervous about hitting and rightly so, as long as he keeps hitting, even though he'll be able to get some penetration on that shot, the minute he stops hitting, he's in trouble, oh, he's looking at the feet, he's going to come up with a knee, we Doom are looking for all sorts of ways to get this good head movement down on overshooting and he shook it off and said no, big right hand missing on overshooting, they do Post Guard momentarily and overing just stands up. oh, body shot blocked by Vero's leverage shot there, as long as Verom stays aggressive with these punches, there are two minutes left on the first round schedule for three interesting strategies that both fighters are applying in the first.

Now one thing Verom can do is kick and he kicks hard because it's okay if he falls on his back after a kick, that's where Doom wants to be shooting again, another fall and on top of that he just gets up and makes the black belt of jiu- Brazilian jitsu stand up and perform a wrestling takedown. to lower his squat and propel himself because it takes a lot of energy, he's not doing what enko did at the funeral of millions when seeing doom was on his back and coming into guard, a nice left hook over the top and that's what

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did Verdom against Fedor a Melano.

LED, he attracted him, that's right, people thought that he was actually hit with a punch, he says no, he wanted Fedor to think that he had been injured with his right hand by verom and a blow from excessive force, people mistreated, please come, please come. He stops thinking about it and says no, get up, what's wrong with this strategy? It's a brilliant strategy and this is the game you know. Striker versus Grappler. This is what you do about it. He has much more power and understanding of Striking, as well as confidence. He now he's just counterattacking and measuring a very impressive strategy, just taking it back and tomorrow you called a lot of fights around the world.

How often do you see something like this? Well, this is once again, it is a strategy that is very important for you to know now. Here we see him running where he wants, but time is running out and time is as big as the enemy Antonio Silva, of course, wants to face Fabricio Verom, he will face the winner of this fight, Verdom, giving him a defeat before in his Strike Force run and here's the game, this one made his attention clear, he picked the leg, jumped out of the way and stayed on him keeping enough distance that there's no running game at all and he's shooting because he's just worried for the takedown but he's so confident and so strong in his position this is what he's going to do every time and this was the first big shot that landed and fell for B half blocked by his hand but a nice solid left hook which guy paused and launched into a continuous bang telling some crazy story.

Verom landed more punches on him three of three on takedowns for dumo over six rounds two schedule for three five minute rounds this is the strike force World Grand Prix heavyweight quarterfinal fight between Alistair on who is a champion of strike force, his belt is not at stake tonight, he is dressed in black against the Abu Dhabi champion, verdom forum, who is coming off the biggest victory of his career, as he presented the great Fedor with a melano for his first legitimate defeat . Now there is a knee from Vero. one knee by overing overing with a big grappling hip through the knee and then he took it out turning to the side one of the reasons overing got hit one of the reasons overing got hit is that he's really square because he's just waiting to hit hard and stop that takedown and yet he's showing improvement in striking and also connects with a good combination, but he's frustrated that he can't get it over the top and keep it there.

Oh, good takedown this time for real, a fight on him back to his feet and a knee by oy excuse me for verdom another knee right hand by verdom this is the game that ver wants to play think well and he will get tired I have to be careful with that one distance verum Throwing some punches here now he wants to put his guard up again there's a leg up on the head Shadows a million years in verom but able to walk away he's getting up slower and slower getting up slower and slower last time it hurt a little leg saw his lip nice left hook by oine now he goes down up with the right hand that was a great shot that left hook was a great shot loop with the right hand from Alistair overy for Doom looks terribly tired he took two great shots but all those failed attempts to take down Frank take a lot of energy plus psychologically you get in there and your biggest attempt to change position is rejected and this is not a chance for Verom to rest.

The referee admonishes him and implores him to get up immediately after breaking his right hand. Verdun puts him on guard. Stand up in his corner yelling at him to get up, you're both just a ring of Doom and the last time they fought you called the fight, how did Doom set it up? Mo, well this is what I mean by him, he actually looked very good at the beginning of that fight and he actually had five of seven takedowns in the initial fight, but it was Ver Doom who was able to exploit his relative experience in the terrain of time and was able to reverse it from behind, snatch his left arm, grab the Kamura.

I think oim has learned very well from that lesson and, as you have seen tonight, the frustrating veroom at every moment, He is doing a good job on the ground keeping his head right in the center, which will prevent his hips from coming out. from we doom and stops the submission from happening and oy makes verom get up once again verom trying to rest lazily standing up if I was done I could take advantage of that FR as soon as he gets up showing that mediocre Gus again he hurt that knee , Yeah. he's pulling the guard, but that hurt him, lifting the ankle strap there.

Doom is demoralized, that knee landed two controlling stance on the hips, now to the close guard, but nothing to do for the Brazilian jiujitsu black belt on the bottom, he has one of the best. last games in sport 37 seconds left in the second round scheduled for three five-minute rounds this is the Strike Force World Grand Prix heavyweight quarterfinal fight Alistair Oine, the Strike Force heavyweight champion in the top in black for Bri, delayed by two-time Abu Dhabi Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion and black belt at the bottom of our first Grand Prix fight of the night, Josh Barnett with a decisive victory over Brett Rogers, yes , setting up the semi-final fight, although Caton's fans did not like the action here in Dallas and really about him saying that he was going to come out Uber aggressively going for the Knockout that is not necessarily the case a good fight coming from the big men It took a lot of energy here but he raised his hips, sat down and came back up. the game was a good move for a big giant man, verdom had no shortage of punches and knees, he was taking hits and doing good damage much better hitting this fight than in 2006 against verdom and this was the counterattack right there up to the chin stopping . the takedown, counterattack with that knee and also counterattack with strong blows on the inside.

Antonio Silva is enjoying it and maybe he's enjoying it saying, you know what, I don't care who wins this fight, I'm ready to take on any of these guys. I like what I see, we're ready for the final round aliser on Fabricio verom Fabricio ver Doom looks like he's been out of breath since the end of the first, third and final round J, come on, ready to fight, ready to fight, come in less than one minute of The first round was fought on the ground and the second round was much more even and here Veroom again fed Wol with a good right hook there and another, how do you have it after two rounds?

Frank, I think he's getting away so far, but he's getting tired. That's starting to make me overlook Frank. He is so strong, but he is doing a lot of power moves and they cost a lot of energy. This is a position I didn't expect to see him in, man, oh, trying to roll and roll like a monkey. catch the cat can be a bit of a monkey in this fight actually verom was running him on the ground but he gets hurt again but still uses it to pull guard. I don't know if it's the smartest strategy to take shots like that, he's hitting.

First, that's what keeps him in the game as long as he keeps hitting, he can jump into it every time with a strong counter before or after, there's no other way to finish, now look at him, he's huffing and puffing a lot, he said he wanted to use this. tournament to make a statement while controlling this fight isn't exactly the fireworks that fans here in Dallas anticipated he had a four Monon training camp for this he said it's the biggest and strongest camp you've ever had but he's out of breath, I can see it pumping from Here the reason it was so long is because there was talk of them meeting in April, but here it will take place in June, a month that has been very good for Fabrio in Doom, of course, in June past, surprising Fedor and again, here's the monkey business.

I'm talking and that's been the theme of this fight. Nice right hand from Verdo. The funniest thing is that Verdo HS is connecting and I don't know if it's because they don't respect his hitting power and lull him into their false sense of who he has to be. Be very careful, he's been knocked out before and over him, he only has powerful punches, he's not doubling up, he's just going for powerful punches every time, six of his 11 losses have been by way of knocking over him and the last time he was knocked out, no other. than Sergey Haritonov who of course is in the tournament and in fact Haritonov lost to Ver Doom at Pride by split decision but he has a KO win over him and the more I see of the tournament the more maybe Herona is not a horse dark afterwards.

All hean Barnett semi-final match very intriguing and again Antonio Silva I think he must like what he sees in these two guys in terms of what he can do to impose his will and ability on him. I don't know if I'm impressed. with either of these two guys tonight, Frank, why is the matchup difficult? I mean, stylistically, very, very difficult and they both burned a lot of energy. Conditioning is key. 128 to go in the third and final round. The fans start singing. Lift them up! It's not exactly what. you want to hear in the main events in the quarterfinal round.

Overing needs to be more aggressive here and Verdom should start turning those hips and changing angles. He has good wrist control. He's in good position to start on those holes. There's one minute left. Third and final round of the Strike Force World Grand Prix quarterfinal fight between Alistar and Fabo Verom and this is not what we thought we would see. No, there's some Arm Control and I have to go, go, because he has to lift his legs. He's got to start turning those hips, turn his back, do something and Overing will stand up once again with 30 seconds left in the round and then give Overing credit, he's taking over his shots, you know, he's dialed in. his face, but he's showing a lot. from git, i think in the Punch he is landing more on the punch exactly this round now some blood is coming out of alist's nose on a leg lock Nar 7 Seconds Nar but the knees past the groin are doomed to more punches and He landed more strikes in that third round, but it wasn't the main event we expected here in Dallas and Valentine or he seems to be happy, of course, after a disappointing loss early on, but after having taken his brother Alistair into martial arts at 15 years old and see him convert. the Strike Force heavyweight champion, the K1 World Grand Prix champion, but after a 2010 it wasn't exactly the start to

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that we expected from Alist or and for Fabricio Verom he just couldn't work out the size and while he got it to the ground he didn't could. do a lot N I was a little disappointed that we didn't get a finish, but let's look at the numbers here, Frank in terms of fight time and again, you know 804 in stand up, very, very. close and each one wasin their respective domains and couldn't do much, I mean, he hurt Verom for most of the fight and I think that's why he'll take this 327, but again, if you're an enlisted man or you're impressed.

With your performance, I kept saying no, I mean especially how big he talked and how big he was coming and how much is at stake in this tournament. I think it will give these guys confidence. Especially good round trip here. and on, and you know what was really starting to show up in the strike walk area as Alista was getting fatigued, it was just one hitting him, he was just hitting with power, verom coming in with a combination reaching, you know, good balls, good center and falling through that knee. A couple of those knees landed on him and I wonder if some of those knees tired him out but on top of him he didn't finish with the strength that he thought he would have, that we thought he would, this is a tough fight, good position, I mean advance to the end for Brio Verdo, he had a hook in the heel and knee. bar combination that foot right there from Alistar or prevent that hold from actually happening and time is up here with the official decision once again Jimmy Lenin Jr ladies and gentlemen after three rounds of action we have a unanimous decision here is the judge of total score at ringside, Dr.

Hamilton scores approximately 29-28. Judges Cecil Peoples and Carrie Hatley score about 30-27, all three in favor of the winner and continue to the semi-finals of stri force demolition man Alis overy's World Heavyweight Grand Prix.