{"id":43507,"date":"2012-10-24T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=43507"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:29:40","slug":"overeem-wants-title-shot-but-wont-wait-for-championship-fight-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/overeem-wants-title-shot-but-wont-wait-for-championship-fight-ufc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Overeem Wants Title Shot, But Won&#8217;t Wait For Championship Fight | UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/REEM-via-espn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/REEM-via-espn.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"REEM via espn\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/REEM-via-espn.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/REEM-via-espn-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/REEM-via-espn-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cRight now, he\u2019s not even licensed so the UFC\u2019s hands are tied. Until he gets licensed, the UFC can\u2019t book him a fight until he gets licensed. So right now it\u2019s all talk. Based upon when he gets licensed and it also depends on the winner of dos Santos and Cain (Velasquez) fight come out unscathed. What if the winner comes out and has an injury and doesn\u2019t want to fight for 8 months? So there\u2019s a lot of \u201cwhat ifs\u201d, so right now we\u2019re just focusing on getting licensed, and once we get licensed then we\u2019ll figure out who we\u2019re going to fight. We\u2019d still rather jump in and get a fight, so we\u2019ll see what happens. He would like to fight as soon as possible after he gets licensed. We\u2019re appreciative that Dana (White) and Lorenzo (Fertitta) want him to fight for the title, and we\u2019re thankful for that, but right now the focused is to get licensed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Glenn Robinsion, manager of Alistair Overeem and &#8220;The Blackzilians&#8221; recently discussed the state of Alistair Overeem and what they want for the former Strikeforce, Dream and K-1 champion.<\/p>\n<p>With Overeem currently serving a suspension the camp just wants to see him get licensed and booked for whatever fight they can get shortly after.<\/p>\n<p><em>(quote via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/alistair-overeems-priority-is-to-get-licensed-and-then-fight-asap-title-shot-or-not\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmaweekly.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRight now, he\u2019s not even licensed so the UFC\u2019s hands are tied. Until he gets licensed, the UFC can\u2019t book him a fight until he gets licensed. So right now it\u2019s all talk. Based upon when he gets licensed and it also depends on the winner of dos Santos and Cain (Velasquez) fight come out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":43508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[649,15,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Overeem Wants Title Shot, But Won&#039;t Wait For Championship Fight | UFC NEWS | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/overeem-wants-title-shot-but-wont-wait-for-championship-fight-ufc-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Overeem Wants Title Shot, But Won&#039;t Wait For Championship Fight | UFC NEWS | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cRight now, he\u2019s not even licensed so the UFC\u2019s hands are tied. 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