Brock Lesnar’s fight with Alistair Overeem is coming up soon on December 30th. UFC president Dana White, who arranged the match, noted at the time of the agreement back in September that the fight would go five rounds. That’s all fine and dandy, except that neither Lesnar nor Overeem agree with White at all.
“That’s fine, because it’s not going five rounds,” retorted Lesnar.
Overeem was less taciturn, and went into more depth than his upcoming opponent:
“I’m prepared for five rounds. I’ve been doing the five rounds forever now it seems. But looking at myself, the type of fighter that I am, looking at Brock, the type of fighter he is, looking at both our characters, we’re aggressive. We’re not the type of guys who back up, we’re fighters. We want to finish fights. And yes, I’m going to be doing that on Dec. 30. I expect him to be doing that, so I don’t see really going past the first or the second round. The second round maximum.”
“I feel the same,” Lesnar agreed. “This is a heavyweight fight that we’re both going in to finish. I don’t foresee it going five rounds.”
Lesnar (6-foot-2 ½, 270 pounds) is a fan-favorite, but hasn’t fought since losing the heavyweight belt to Cain Velasquez in October. By contrast, Overeem (6-foot-5, 255 pounds) boasts an impressive resume: he is currently the only man in history to hold a world championship in both a major MMA organization (Strikeforce) and kickboxing organization (K-1) concurrently.
We’ll all find out December 30th when these two manbeasts battle for the next UFC title shot at Junior Dos Santos.
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