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\nDuring his prime, Alistair Overeem was part of a talented group
\nof MMA heavyweights. | Glory Kickboxing<\/b><\/p>\n
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Heavyweight has never been the deepest division in MMA, but at its
\npeak, the weight class featured a number of top talents across
\nmultiple promotions.<\/p>\n
One of those skilled heavyweights was Alistair Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Over the course of his UFC tenure alone Overeem earned victories Overeem admits that one would be hard-pressed to find that type of \u201cIt\u2019s no secret that there is a decline, unfortunately, even though However, Overeem also admits that peaks and valleys are natural in “Before, we have also seen a similar style decline in K-1, in Overeem pointed out that some parts of the world, such as Japan, \u201cI have to say the golden era of MMA \u2014 Fedor, Big Nog, Wanderlei During his prime, Alistair Overeem was part of a talented group of MMA heavyweights. | Glory Kickboxing Heavyweight has never been the deepest division in MMA, but at its peak, the weight class featured a number of top talents across multiple promotions. One of those skilled heavyweights was Alistair Overeem, a former Strikeforce, Dream and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOvereem<\/a>, a former Strikeforce<\/a>,
\nDream<\/a>
\nand K-1 champion. The Dutchman also challenged for heavyweight gold
\nin the
\nUFC<\/a>. His last Octagon appearance came in 2021, and his last
\ncombat sports fight came under the Glory Kickboxing banner in 2022.
\nHe officially announced his retirement<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n
\nagainst the likes of Fabricio
\nWerdum<\/a>, Mark Hunt<\/a>,
\nAndrei
\nArlovski<\/a>, Junior dos
\nSantos<\/a>, Roy Nelson<\/a>,
\nFrank
\nMir<\/a> and Brock
\nLesnar<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nstar power in the heavyweight division today.<\/p>\n
\nthe top guys will remain the top guys,” Overeem told Bloody Elbow<\/a>. “It’s not as colorful as it once used to
\nbe. There used to be 15 to 20 top-name heavyweights, which is now
\nnot the case. They’ve kind of slowly declined, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nall combat sports.<\/p>\n
\nkickboxing, and that kind of happened to MMA now, as well,” Overeem
\nsaid. “Boxing made a revival. Boxing came back. So I think it’s how
\nyou can describe as the tides of life. Sometimes it goes up,
\nsometimes it goes down.<\/p>\nThe Golden Era<\/h2>\n
\nare not the MMA hotbeds as they once were during the heyday of
\n
\nPride Fighting Championships<\/a>. For \u201cOvereem,\u201d the so-called
\n\u201cgolden era\u201d of the sport occurred in the 90s and early 2000s, and
\nwas a result of a broad interest in MMA worldwide.<\/p>\n
\nSilva<\/a>, Sakuraba and then later into the UFC Rich
\nFranklin<\/a>, Brock
\nLesnar<\/a>, Ronda
\nRousey<\/a>, Jon Jones<\/a> \u2014
\nthis originated in the different promotions and also the different
\ncountries pushing the sport,\u201d Overeem added. \u201cThere\u2019s such a broad
\nlandscape which is producing fighters. Also there is not much
\ncoming from Japan these days. At the height, in the 90s and early
\n2000s, there was a lot of fighters coming from there \u2014 K-1 and MMA.
\nWhich now is negligible. I think it\u2019s a little bit like the tides.
\nSometimes it\u2019s there, sometimes it\u2019s not there. Sometimes markets
\nget saturated, sometimes they dry up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"