{"id":451508,"date":"2022-06-27T01:12:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T08:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=451508"},"modified":"2022-06-27T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T08:12:39","slug":"alistair-overeem-explains-move-to-pro-wrestling-after-previously-trashing-the-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/alistair-overeem-explains-move-to-pro-wrestling-after-previously-trashing-the-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Alistair Overeem explains move to pro wrestling after previously trashing the profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alistair Overeem has explained why he&#8217;s decided to venture into professional wrestling after previously trashing it as &#8220;fake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While many expected Alistair Overeem to focus his attention on Glory and his long-awaited return to kickboxing in the next few years, the MMA legend has other plans.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to sticking with Glory, Overeem will also be testing the waters with a run in pro wrestling &#8211; something he was notably against less than a year ago when discussing the subject with Ariel Helwani.<\/p>\n<p>Overeem <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/alistair-overeem-to-make-pro-wrestling-debut-against-braun-strowman\/\">will battle<\/a> the man formerly known as Braun Strowman in a UK event later this summer and upon returning to The MMA Hour, Overeem explained why his opinion on the sport shifted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alistair Overeem \u2018Absolutely Not\u2019 Done With MMA Yet - MMA Fighting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0V0WtIckIow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLife is interesting, let me put it that way,\u201d Overeem said. \u201cCause on the one hand you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh yeah, you\u2019re talking smack and then you\u2019re doing it yourself.\u2019 Not too big a fan of it lately, but again, in my defense, I was a huge fan in the 80s when I was 8 or 9 or 10, 11, 12 [years old]. So it\u2019s been up and down, and now it\u2019s up again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI was always, just to remind you, not too flattering about kickboxing guys. I\u2019m kickboxing now. I was kickboxing 10 years ago. I was kickboxing 25 years ago, so that\u2019s a little bit of the up and down thing, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou need to do [train], otherwise, it\u2019s not going to go too good,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course the MMA background helps cause you\u2019re used to falling and doing all the moves but this is a little bit different. Hats off to the guys [who do professional wrestling].<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019m confident in my abilities. As an athlete, as a fighter, I just somehow have the ability that if I put my mind to it, I will just kick some ass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/26\/23151135\/alistair-overeem-explains-move-into-pro-wrestling-after-calling-it-lame-and-stupid-in-the-past\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you excited to see Alistair Overeem wrestle?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alistair Overeem has explained why he&#8217;s decided to venture into professional wrestling after previously trashing it as &#8220;fake&#8221;. While many expected Alistair Overeem to focus his attention on Glory and his long-awaited return to kickboxing in the next few years, the MMA legend has other plans. In addition to sticking with Glory, Overeem will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":336046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10192,39610],"tags":[],"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>Alistair Overeem explains move to pro wrestling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alistair Overeem has explained why he&#039;s decided to venture into professional wrestling after previously trashing it as &quot;fake&quot;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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