Brock Lesnar may go back to the actual Ultimate fighting championship octagon inside a five-round main event 12 ,. 30 at MGM Grand in Vegas, dealing with recently authorized previous Strikeforce top quality champion Alistair Overeem.
"Brock is a big name, a dangerous man, which is a desire game,Inch Overeem informed The Times on Tuesday, just after signing a standard Ultimate fighting championship fight agreement at work of Chairman Lorenzo Fertitta. "Brock's a big guy, an exciting wrestler together with his takedowns.
"I need to see this particular battle personally. Overall, I am a various fighter. A striker, sports, big. These are likely to be 2 big vans going at it on a crash program.Inch
The 6-foot-5, 260-pound Overeem, 31, is really a previous K-1 boxing champ too, He or she most recently defended his Strikeforce buckle within June with a single decision over takedown specialist Fabrio Werdum, that experienced previously conquered Fedor Emelianenko.
Lesnar continues to be from action since dropping his UFC heavyweight buckle in order to Cain Velasquez within Oct from Anaheim's Honda Center, struggling coming back occurrence of the intestinal condition diverticulitis.
The Dec. Thirty winner is going to be very first in collection to battle the actual winner of the November. Twelve fight between Velasquez as well as Junior Dos Santos.
"This is the battle the actual followers would like,Inch Ultimate fighting championship President Dana White stated. "Both of those guys are monsters. May Lesnar consider Overeem lower?"
Fertitta stated the actual Strikeforce buckle won't be part of the promotion. The Ultimate fighting championship offers purchased Strikeforce.
"Our thinking whenever we purchased Strikeforce ended up being to give fans the actual battles they need," Fertitta stated. "Obviously, Alistair's one of the best heavyweights on the planet, but he also has that 'it' element -- the great appear, he's large. It is a star element.Inch
Overeem said he is discovering establishing instruction headquarters within Los Angeles.
It’s a terrific, as well as unpredicted, matchup &ndah; the type the UFC retains taking out of the cap to inspire it's group of followers. Overeem, that authorized their contract Tuesday within UFC chairman Lorenzo Fertitta’s Vegas office, told Google! Sports activities he had been offered the opportunity to fight the actual Velasquez-dos Santos winner, however didn’t want to wait around that long and chose to face Lesnar instead.
“I was provided the choice to battle for that [UFC] name immediately, however it could possibly end up being six months, because those men would want serious amounts of recuperate,” Overeem stated. “I’m a fighter and I like to be energetic. As we had been speaking, Brock’s name is one of the titles that emerged. The actual followers wanted to observe that fight, as well as I wanted to see it. Taking every thing into account, probably the most important things are the followers. These people wanted to see it, two big guys slugging it, therefore I said, ‘Let’s get it done.’ ”
In addition, the UFC reached spoken contracts along with lightweights Clay Guida and Ben Henderson on the battle that will be on the undercard of the Fox display upon Nov. 12 in Anaheim, Calif. The champion of that battle will be the best contender for the champion of the approaching title fight between champion Frankie Edgar and opposition Grey Maynard.
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