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So Much For Overeem

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Whoops, there goes another UFC main event.  Who would have ever suspected that someone would go from cruiserweight to super heavyweight and be involved in illicit activities to get there?  I am SHOCKED and APPALLED.  Drug testing the guys at the press conference was devious and brilliant.

Wonder if Brock will campaign to get his loss to Overeem overturned now.
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  1. cultstatusApril 4, 2012 at 4:31 PM

    How mad is Dana that this happened a week too late and now he can't call Brock in to save the main event?

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  2. TraitorAlexApril 4, 2012 at 4:37 PM

    He wouldn't have much of a leg to stand on.  Overeem was tested something ridiculous like bi-weekly leading up to the Brock fight including taking a few of the optional tests simply because suspicion on him was so high because of how much he'd dodged testing in the past.  There was one incident where Overeem ducked a test but made up for it relatively quickly and was granted a license anyways.  I suppose if Brock really wanted to raise a stink about it he could use that one test as his evidence but I really don't think that's a door Brock would want to open at this point in his life. 

    From what I'm reading the "random" testing apparently caught him.  Which is good in the short term but could possibly lead to fighters not signing up to fight in Nevada just like other fighters chose not to fight in California after the hatchet job they did on Sean Sherk.  As weird as it sounds to say (type) this out loud, catching Overeem could be a really bad thing for the sport of MMA.

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  3. Joe PetrowApril 4, 2012 at 5:16 PM

    Who's to say that he can't?

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  4. Lerxst_PrattApril 4, 2012 at 5:16 PM

    “I am beyond pissed about this,” said UFC president Dana White on
    Wednesday in a conference call with Canadian media that had been
    scheduled for a week. “I’m so (expletive) mad right now I can’t even
    begin..."

    And this is why, despite his vocal disdain for all things wrestling, Dana White nevertheless will never be seen as anything more than a jacked up frat boy with money, a few steps laterally removed from wrestling promoters.  I mean really, what kind of corporate person talks to the media so colloquially?  What a douchebag.

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  5. johntcoleApril 4, 2012 at 5:20 PM

    I don't think he'd do that even if Brock wasn't with WWE right now.  Or at least I doubt Brock would do it but maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

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  6. cultstatusApril 4, 2012 at 5:36 PM

    One last mega payday for the title? He would have done it. When he announced his retirement, he said if he'd won, he would have retired after the title shot. So even he felt he had one more fight left in him.

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  7. cultstatusApril 4, 2012 at 5:37 PM

    The WWE.

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  8. theJawasApril 4, 2012 at 6:11 PM

    Dana wouldn't call Brock, at least not to challenge for the title. He lost two in a row and nust wouldn't get a title match, even with Overeem now out. Maybe a co-main vs. Mir if Cain got the shot, though...

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  9. Texas KellyApril 4, 2012 at 7:05 PM

    "Who would have ever suspected that someone would go from cruiserweight
    to super heavyweight and be involved in illicit activities to get there?"

    Hey, Crash Holly managed just fine at the time.

    (Sorry, but someone had to make that joke.)

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  10. Joe PetrowApril 4, 2012 at 7:08 PM

    The WWE needed UFC permission to sign Brock in the first place.

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  11. Texas KellyApril 4, 2012 at 7:09 PM

     Who's to say it would have been a two-fight losing streak if Overeem hadn't been 'roided up?

    No doubt in my mind Dana would've gone to Brock as the backup plan. The timing of this has to be compounding Dana's rage.

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  12. cultstatusApril 4, 2012 at 7:16 PM

    No they didn't. Dana said Brock was no longer under UFC contract when the rumors hit, he was free to sign anywhere. 

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  13. cultstatusApril 4, 2012 at 7:18 PM

    I don't know about that, but Brock is still the biggest draw they could put in that spot as a late replacement.

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  14. theJawasApril 4, 2012 at 8:01 PM

    No one may believe me, but Dana wouldn't put someone coming off two losses (even one, if you don't count the Reem fight anymore) in a title match. Maybe back in 2003, but not now. I think they'd just match him with Mir, and make it a co-(in many peoples' minds real) main event.

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  15. Harry HoodApril 4, 2012 at 9:26 PM

    From the looks of it on Monday, Brock isn't exactly in fighting shape right now.  I'm not saying he looked bad, but definitely not ready to hop into the cage with one of the top mix martial artists in the world.  

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  16. cultstatusApril 4, 2012 at 9:58 PM

    Oh, he would have probably been destroyed by JDS, but money talks.

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  17. Nick SaikleyApril 5, 2012 at 12:59 AM

    A guy who makes all his money off guys beating the shit out of each other.

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  18. Caliber Winfield's Biggest FanApril 5, 2012 at 7:06 AM

     They just need to cut the bullshit, and like pot, they need to make the juice legal. It's no more fucking dangerous than an aspirin. Hell, people end up in the ER more often for aspirin than they do anabolic steroids.

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