Alright, let’s talk about this here fight, you know, the one with Alistair Overeem and Brock Lesnar. Folks been yappin’ about it for ages, so I figured, why not throw my two cents in, eh?
Alistair Overeem, that fella, they say he’s some kinda kickboxin’ champ. Won some big fancy title, K-1 somethin’ or other. Sounds like he knows how to throw a punch, or a kick, I guess. And he was a Strikeforce champ too, whatever that is. Big strong fella, I reckon, muscles all over the place.
Then you got Brock Lesnar, the big ol’ farm boy. He used to wrestle them fake fellas on TV, WWE they call it. Says he was strong as an ox, even stronger than some giant fella named Kane. They used to arm wrestle backstage, you know, like men do. Kurt Angle, that other wrestler, he said it happened, so it must be true.
- Now, these two fellas, they got into the Octagon, that cage thing where they fight. It was back in 2011, UFC 141 they called it. Big fight, everyone was watchin’.
- Some folks thought Lesnar would win ’cause he was so strong, and he’d been a UFC champ before, so they said.
- But Overeem, he was somethin’ else. He was on a roll, beatin’ everyone.
The fight itself? Well, it was fast. Real fast. Didn’t last long at all. Overeem, he started kickin’ Lesnar, right in the belly. BAM! BAM! BAM! Lesnar, he didn’t like that one bit. He tried to take Overeem down, wrestle him to the ground like he used to do in them fake fights.
But Overeem, he was too strong, too quick. He kept kickin’ and punchin’, and Lesnar, he just couldn’t do nothin’. The referee, he saw Lesnar was hurtin’, so he stopped the fight. Just like that, it was over. Overeem won by TKO, they called it. Technical Knockout, fancy words for “he beat him up good.”
The judges, they all agreed, 29-28, 30-27, somethin’ like that. Didn’t matter much, the fight was over before it could go the distance. Some folks say Lesnar got sick before the fight and that’s why he lost. I don’t know nothin’ about that, but I do know Overeem whupped him fair and square that night.
Now, some folks still argue about who’d win if they fought again. They say Lesnar was stronger, but Overeem was a better fighter. And they talk about chins, who could take a punch better. Beats me, I say. Overeem won that night, and that’s all that matters.
So, if you ask me, Overeem was the better fighter that night. He was quicker, he was stronger, and he had them fancy kicks. Lesnar, he was strong, sure, but that ain’t always enough. You gotta be smart, too, and you gotta be able to take a punch, or a kick, as the case may be.
And that’s the story of Alistair Overeem versus Brock Lesnar, as far as I see it. One fella won, the other fella lost. That’s how fights go, ain’t it?
Tags: [Alistair Overeem, Brock Lesnar, UFC 141, MMA, TKO, Kickboxing, Wrestling, Strikeforce, Heavyweight]
