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Alistair Overeem To Fight at DREAM.12? [Rumor]

Michael David Smith of AOL Fanhouse is reporting that Alistair Overeem will fight James Thompson on this weekends DREAM.12 fight card in Japan.

The fight has not been announced by DREAM, but Smith is citing a “source with knowledge of the situation.”

If you hop on over to DREAM’s website and look at their DREAM.12 page, you can indeed see that Overeem has been ever so easily (and rather badly) Photoshopped into the DREAM.12 banner.

Overeem just competed this past weekend in a Golden Glory fight card in Amsterdam. Alistair easily defeated an overmatched Tony Sylvester in the first round via submission.

A fight against Thompson is another cream puff fight. While “The Colossus” is a favorite in Japan, he has lost four fights in a row and eight of his last ten.

Two things are certain: first, Thompson will begin the fight with his traditional bull charge, and two, Overeem will easily win the fight via KO.

Overeem is also scheduled to compete in the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final at the end of the year. All this while he has still not defended his Strikeforce heavyweight title since winning the belt in 2007.

Dr J

Posted: October 19th, 2009 8 Comments Categories: News
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1. MMAKansas says:

   October 19, 2009 at 4:27 pm

   Alistair Overeem has avoided Strikeforce to avoid drug testing in my jaded opinion.. he’s put on like 40 pounds of muscle or more in the past 18 months right? Well you don’t put on that kind of muscle eating chicken and jumping rope… Strikeforce needs to strip him of his title if he wont defend it… Shogun showed everyone what happens when that can gets in the cage or ring with top level competition…. OVEREEM IS A PAPER TIGER … CAN …

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   • Dr J says:

     October 20, 2009 at 8:35 am

     that does seem to be the growing consensus on Overeem – that he would fail drug testing here in the US.

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2. richard says:

   October 20, 2009 at 1:23 pm

   the guy is really huge now.

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3. R.J. St.Croix says:

   October 21, 2009 at 3:40 pm

   so this weekend is gonna be full to the teets with fights. UFC 104 undercard fights start at 9:00pm then UFC 104 at 10:00pm till about 1:00am THEN Dream 12 starts at 2:00am till about 7:00am…. WHOO HOOO thats 9 hours of MMA in a 10 hour stretch.

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4. bvrasp says:

   October 21, 2009 at 7:38 pm

   You got that right RJ, i know what im doing saturday night and sunday morning hehe.

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5. MMAKansas says:

   October 22, 2009 at 2:40 pm

   My birthday is Saturday, so the MMA crew decided on b-day cake, mexican food, and the fight.. it’s gonna be nuts… cannot wait, gonna do a little UNDISPUTED on Xbox before the fights kick off around 7pm ..

   Can we catch Dream on TVU .. guys?

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   • R.J. St.Croix says:

     October 22, 2009 at 5:06 pm

     i think you’ll be able to get it on the TVU or justin tv, its showing on HDNet so it wont likely get shut down streaming on the net.

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     • bvrasp says:

       October 22, 2009 at 7:02 pm

       Kansas it should be on TVU but ill post alink up sometime before the event starts so check on here if TVU isnt working.

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