After rumours circling around about Alistair Overeem retiring earlier this year, my team reached out to Reem’s management to clear things up.
They told us Overeem definitely ain’t retiring yet because he still wants to compete in GLORY’s 8-man heavyweight Grand Prix in December, to close out his legendary combat sports career.
Now it turns out that after all, the 43-years-old Alistair Overeem actually decided to retire, officially announced during an interview with
Panorama today.
Here’s a report regarding the news written by Sherdog’s own
@BoxerMaurits (non-Dutchies, make sure to hit the translate button on Instagram
):
Reposted by Alistair Overeem: