UFC Fight Night 87 Live Stream Overeem vs Arlovski is here.In case you're searching for a defining moment in the life and vocation of UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum, you could do a considerable measure more regrettable than the night of June 18, 2011.
That is when Werdum, crisp off a colossal bombshell of Fedor Emelianenko, tackled Alistair Overeem in the first round of the Strikeforce World Heavyweight Grand Prix.
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"That battle," Werdum told MMAjunkie by means of an interpreter, "I lost, yet it was a terrible battle. It was horrendous for the two of us."
He's completely serious. Presently individuals take a gander at Werdum (20-5-1 MMA, 8-2 UFC), who hopes to guard his title against Stipe Miocic (14-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) in UFC 198's compensation per-view main event on May 14, and they see one of the division's ideal and most energizing contenders. In any case, that night in Dallas, he was miles far from the contender he'd soon gotten to be.
The battle was a baffling one, both for contenders and fans. After three trudging rounds in which a tune of boos served as the soundtrack, Overeem took the consistent choice triumph.
Werdum? He took the brunt of the fault. That will undoubtedly happen when you spend some not irrelevant bit of a dreary session lying on your back, begging your adversary to come visit you in your gatekeeper.
Thing is, in those brief minutes when he picked to stand and exchange with Overeem, who in those days was still the cumbersome kickboxer variant of himself, Werdum didn't do as such seriously. Actually, he showed signs of improvement of a few trades, just to relinquish the system and lemon to the floor.
What was his issue, fans asked after the battle. Did he just not trust in his own striking aptitudes? Had he fallen so infatuated with his jiu-jitsu in the wake of submitting Emelianenko off his back that he thought it was the main answer for each issue?
Overeem assumed so. At the post-battle public interview, he blamed Werdum for slowing down.
"Essentially, I feel that is whatever he can do," Overeem said. "I think he didn't generally come to battle."
Werdum heard it all. It stung, as well. In any case, there were a couple of things individuals didn't comprehend about that battle, he said, and a couple of lessons they didn't understand he'd gained from it.
First and foremost, he said, he was in under ideal wellbeing for the battle. It was initially slated for April, and after that got pushed back to June, which brought about a phenomenally long preparing camp for Werdum, who said he entered the battle beat up and, without precedent for his profession, "overtrained," which left him feeling depleted before the battle even started.
"Heading off to the floor, it resembled out," Werdum said. "It was the main thing I could do. Each time I went to punch, I was so drained. I didn't recognize what else to do."
Be that as it may, as drained as he might have been, Werdum, who had relied on upon his jiu-jitsu for so long, still figured out how to stand his ground against Overeem, a beautified kickboxer.
On the off chance that exclusive he'd had the gas tank to focus on it, he ended up supposing after the battle, who knows what may have happened? What's more, if just he hadn't at present viewed himself as a jiu-jitsu warrior with a smidgen of striking, possibly he could have shocked every one of us at the end of the day.
At last, the misfortune wasn't such a terrible profession move. In the wake of being thumped out of the Strikeforce competition, Werdum made the move to the UFC, whose guardian organization now possessed the Strikeforce mark however hadn't yet close it down. He battled Roy Nelson the next year and, to the amazement of a few, overpowered him with a managed attack on the feet that was both harming and assorted.
So started Werdum's present six-battle winning streak, which drove him first to the UFC's between time heavyweight title and afterward to the genuine article after a win over Cain Velasquez last June.
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