LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JULY 11: Matt Hughes gives his preamble reside for BJ Penn earlier he is inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame astatine the UFC Fan Expo successful the Sands Expo and Convention Center connected July 11, 2015 successful Las Vegas Nevada. (Photo by Brandon Magnus/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
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How are Donald Cerrone, Wanderlei Silva and Urijah Faber Hall-of-Famers erstwhile Pride, Strikeforce, DREAM, K-1 and UFC fable Alistair Overeem isn't?
I said to Overeem astir this and he offered an absorbing answer. Let's talk MMA.
Key Facts astatine a Glance
- MMA record: 47-19 pinch 1 no-contest
- UFC record: 12-8 crossed astir a decade
- Titles held: Strikeforce heavyweight, DREAM heavyweight, 2010 K-1 World Grand Prix
- UFC debut: first-round decorativeness of Brock Lesnar astatine UFC 141, December 2011
- Released: March 2021, aft a TKO nonaccomplishment to Alexander Volkov
- Retired: October 2023, property 43
- UFC Hall of Fame status: not inducted, and eligible nether Modern Era rules
Why Isn't Alistair Overeem In The UFC Hall Of Fame?
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 07: Alistair Overeem of Netherlands stands successful his area betwixt rounds of his heavyweight bout against Jairzinho Rozenstruik of Suriname during the UFC Fight Night arena astatine Capital One Arena connected December 07, 2019 successful Washington, DC. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
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Overeem does not deliberation the reply is connected paper.
"Well, I deliberation that the UFC Hall of Fame each has to do with, if you are connected Dana White's favourite list," he said. "If he likes you, past you're connected there. And if he doesn't for illustration you, you're not going to beryllium connected there. Well, successful my case, I'm not connected there. So I conjecture he doesn't for illustration me."
I cautiously pressed connected really a Hall tin clasp his résumé against those already inducted, he narrowed it further. "I deliberation Dana besides knows his stuff, but past it's just, yeah. It conscionable comes down to the ego thing."
How Did Overeem's UFC Run End?
He traces it to the signing alternatively than the exit. Talks betwixt his guidance and White collapsed successful 2011, and the woody only closed erstwhile Lorenzo Fertitta stepped in.
"And I think, yeah, someway that rubbed him the incorrect measurement aliases something," Overeem said. "Cannot spot successful the man's mind."
The decorativeness was blunt. Overeem was released astir 3 months short of 10 years pinch the promotion, instantly aft a loss, and conscionable aft turning down a projected reduction.
"We want to springiness you for illustration a salary simplification of 50%," he recalled being told. "I'm like, no. Why would I do that? And past I lost. And past they released me."
The nonaccomplishment he’s referring to came against Alexander Volkov successful February 2021.
He added thing much telling than the merchandise itself. "We don't person individual relationship. The feline never, we're not moreover talking. Which to maine is weird. Because I'm for illustration 1 of the higher paid athletes."
Who Has Alistair Overeem Beaten?
Sure, he has 19 losses. But he besides has 47 wins and erstwhile you return a look astatine the database of names Overeem has beaten, really tin he not beryllium successful the Hall?
- HOF - Vitor Belfort (twice)
- Sergei Kharitonov
- Mark Hunt (twice)
- Gary Goodridge
- Fabricio Werdum (twice)
- Brock Lesnar
- Frank Mir
- Stefan Struve
- Roy Nelson
- Junior dos Santos
- Andrei Arlovski
- Sergei Pavlovich
- Alexey Oleynik
One of those fighters (Belfort) is already successful the UFC Hall and it's imaginable we could spot Werdum, Lesnar, Mir and dos Santos inducted astatine immoderate point.
Does The Snub Bother Him?
Not capable to pursuit it.
"Listen, I person fought for a agelong time. And I've dealt pinch group that don't for illustration maine for a agelong time," Overeem said. "I'm not bothered by it. I conscionable cruise connected pinch my life. I conscionable picture it arsenic you can't beryllium friends pinch everyone. Ultimately if personification does maine dirty, they ever salary the price."
He allowed 1 concession. "Of course, everybody would for illustration to beryllium Hall of Famer. I was pinch them for 10 years. But if it's not yet, it's not up to me."
Then the statement that says the astir about really small airtime this has gotten: "This is the astir I've been talking astir the hallway of fame ever successful my life."
Maybe that’s the problem.
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