DREAM 15: Was fighting Ricco Rodriguez too risky for Alistair Overeem?
by Jesse Holland on Jul 9, 2010 5:44 PM EDT
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"It was presented to Overeem a while ago and he accepted the offer. I signed the contract, came down, and was prepared to fight Overeem. Later, I found out through Overeem's camp that they released a formal announcement that they apologized to myself and my camp and that they would not be accepting the fight. Yesterday was the first time I was told that they didn't feel that I was suitable ... The reality is that they felt that there was too much risk involved in this particular fight. His camp and himself felt that this was not a good position for him, meaning that if he beats me, it wasn't a big victory, and if he loses to me, he had everything to lose ... I think that Overeem did what was best for his career in this particular situation. Like I said, I have no beef with Dream. They've treated me phenomenally, they've kept their word, they've been awesome. I spoke with Ken Pavia at MMA Agents in the past few days, and finding out what's going on, negotiating, trying to find a new opponent, but the reality is that no one wanted to fight me."
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Ricco Rodriguez tells Sherdog.com that he'll be forced to leave Japan without competing at DREAM 15 on July 10. "Suave" was called in to replace Andrei Arlovski against Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion Alistair Overeem -- who later opted not to participate. Is Rodriguez accurate in his assessment of "Demolition Man's" reasoning? Or should a fighter of Overeem's stature welcome any and all challengers? What's your take?
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Was fighting Ricco Rodriguez too risky for Alistair Overeem?
There will never replace Cro Cop, Wand or Fedor, fuck the Haters, stay loyal to your favourite fighters, win, lose or draw.
Overeem fighting Ricco was pretty pointless
Nothing to gain but everything to lose if you’re Overeem.
Anderson Silva haters will be back on his nuts after he gets another amazing KO just like when he embarrassed Forrest like nobody else could. GSP can't even finish people in his own weight division. The only time Andy goes the distance is against a so, so fighter who he either isn't motivated to fight or just toys with them. Get a top fighter in there and watch him get destroyed within 2 rounds. He's bored at MW, get him to LHW so he can take that belt too and let's watch GSP be brave enough to take a fight at MW.
Lesnar isn't the most skilled fighter but until somebody beats him he is the #1 HW in the world. It's obviously not Fedor and sure as hell isn't Werdum!
So is Ricco fighting on this card or what?
Last I heard Ricco was saying that Dream wanted him to fight Mousasi.
And L O fucking L at Ricco being too risky of an opponent for Ovaries.
well thats because you are Ricco friggin Rodriguez
and your best fights are behind you, but you are a big guy and can probably knock people out.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again."
Finally!!
A fighter that has a realistic perception of his value. (I’m looking at YOU Tito).
by haglnuts on Jul 9, 2010 5:50 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Sweet Rico is back
BJ is going to be back in Cali training and Marv is back! Bad news for Frankie. I will be betting the house.
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BJ is going to be back in Cali training and Marv is back! Bad news for Frankie. I will be betting the house.
saw him at a local a few months back and he won but looked horrible. there was just no reward for overeem. ricco is that bad that it didnt make sense, theres a risk anytime you fight.
so why take it against a guy that will not help your situation ev en if you win…
I like the feeling of hunting down what I feed my family. If there’s a beast out there capable of hunting down Brock Lesnar, he would do it and make me the trophy on his den wall. But the laws of nature dictate that I’m going to be the one who goes into the wild and comes home with the evening’s bounty. - The #1 ranked HW in the world...
No it wasnt too risky
The Reem felt pity for Ricco and didnt want to kill him. What a humble guy Alastair is.
Chael Sonnen will lay and pray the shit out of Silva at 117...or get subbed.
Real Fighters
Don’t turn down fights especially at the last minute.
by ImmortalTechnique92 on Jul 9, 2010 6:06 PM EDT reply actions
i think ricco was right when he said this:
His camp and himself felt that this was not a good position for him, meaning that if he beats me, it wasn’t a big victory, and if he loses to me, he had everything to lose … I think that Overeem did what was best for his career in this particular situation
yea ricco is certainly not the same ufc champion type fighter he once was, but at the same time, he is definantly one of those guys who could pull a weird freak sub ala werdum out of nowhere….
i mean there were a lot of people including myself who after seeing the alister/rogers fight were looking at the fedor/werdum fight as just a pointless wasted fight…that they should just scratch that fight and just go ahead and have alister/fedor fight since fedor is just gonna destroy werdum anyway..
but then some crazy shit none of us expected happened….
so after seeing werdum tapping fedor there is no way i will ever say again that some dude has absolutely no chance of beating another
the brockness monster grinds up teenagers and puts them in his protein shakes..and uses razor blades to chop toddlers up into lines to snort like meth...the reason no one can find bigfoot is because the brockness monster found him years ago and now has him in numerous ziplock bags in the back of his freezer...
ah hemm.
but then some crazy shit none of us expected happened….
someone expected it.
Fedor lost to Werdum.... OHHH SNAP!
Really?
You expected Werdum to pull off the upset of the decade? Really?
"The #1 Heavy Weight of the World Brock Lesnar!" - "All Aboard The Pain Train Chug a Chug a Choo Choo"
I put $100 bucks on it at +500
said it in a post the day before and got reamed for … but hey I was all : )
Sounds like and odds bet...
…instead of really believing that he would win.
"The #1 Heavy Weight of the World Brock Lesnar!" - "All Aboard The Pain Train Chug a Chug a Choo Choo"
If you mean by risky
Overeem being afraid of actually killing someone in the ring then yes.
Exactly
Ricco is a journeyman fighter now. He was a UFC champ when it didn’t mean shit.
Ricco also tapped Nogueira at ADCC, and dominated Nogueira in PRIDE when Nogueira was the 2nd best HW fighter in the world.
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No doubt
Overeem should take his “champ” status all the way to the bank with a fight with Fedor. 15 minutes really isn’t a long time, so you should capitalize on it when it’s your turn.
And a lot of em KO'd by shots to the body
And he’s the only guy I’ve seen KO someone with a palm strike. One of the baddest motherfuckers to ever live imo.
Yo, God. I know you're creating the world and I'ma let you finish but Sega made one of the best Genesis of all time.
by O damn he got caught on Jul 9, 2010 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey OD did u see bas fight frank shamrock?
That fight was so crazy frank had him in a leg lock & bas was bitch slapping the shit out of him =D & everytime he got popped he made a differnt funny face at bas.
by d*locc on Jul 10, 2010 12:07 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yea but he had a strategy
He wanted Bas to hit him in the face with a closed fist, cause in pancrease that was against the rules; and if I remember right it worked and the ref intervened.
Yo, God. I know you're creating the world and I'ma let you finish but Sega made one of the best Genesis of all time.
by O damn he got caught on Jul 10, 2010 7:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Was looking up that gif of Frank vs Bas and came across this......lol
There will never replace Cro Cop, Wand or Fedor, fuck the Haters, stay loyal to your favourite fighters, win, lose or draw.
Bas first fight ?? Good viewing and commentated by himself!!
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Bas_Rutten_vs_Ryushi_Yanagisawa_First_Bas_s_MMA_?vid=10011230
There will never replace Cro Cop, Wand or Fedor, fuck the Haters, stay loyal to your favourite fighters, win, lose or draw.
That vid is definitly worth a watch!
There will never replace Cro Cop, Wand or Fedor, fuck the Haters, stay loyal to your favourite fighters, win, lose or draw.
Dead on
This is exactly what I thought. Overeem has 0 HW wins over anybody with close to Ricco’s ground ability.
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