{"id":292407,"date":"2018-11-23T06:19:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=292407"},"modified":"2018-11-27T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T00:12:00","slug":"alistair-overeem-says-he-had-to-google-his-ufc-beijing-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/alistair-overeem-says-he-had-to-google-his-ufc-beijing-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Alistair Overeem says he &#8216;had to Google&#8217; his UFC Beijing opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night (early Saturday morning in North America), in the co-main event of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-beijing-curtis-blaydes-vs-francis-ngannou-2-fight-card\/\">UFC Beijing<\/a>, former Strikeforce, Dream and K-1 heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem will return to the Octagon. His opponent in this bout will be Sergey Pavlovich, a former Fight Nights Global heavyweight champion who is making his promotional debut.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Sergey Pavlovich, you can&#8217;t really be faulted. Alistair Overeem admits he didn&#8217;t know who Pavlovich was either when the bout was first offered.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he had to Google his Russian foe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s his debut fight in the UFC and he\u2019s an unknown, unfamiliar name to me, so I kind of had to Google and see what that was all about,\u201d Alistair Overeem told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ECCgGXn1MH0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC.com<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s undefeated, so his motivation is going to be there. He\u2019s a young stud. But against those type of guys I always say, \u2018Yes.\u2019 The fans can look forward to a very action-packed fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Overeem considers Pavlovich very dangerous, he believes his experience will be enough to carry him to a victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m one of the veterans now and I think my resume is kind of special,\u201d Alistair Overeem said. \u201cI\u2019ve been fighting forever, it seems. 88 fights all together with the K-1 and PRIDE and the different organizations. It\u2019s make it or break it for me. Either I annihilate or I get annihilated. Mostly I\u2019m the one doing the annihilating. But we\u2019re back to annihilate some more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However the bout unfolds, Alistair Overeem ensures it will not go all three rounds. There will be a finish, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will finish this,\u201d Overeem said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to go the distance. 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