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Overeem's Coach Makes Stunning Discovery
Just like that, the “Reem” is back, and he’s hoping that his scheduled fight with Alexander Volkov rematerializes. His new coaching staff is enjoying the late resurgence, even if things didn’t go exactly according to plan in Russia.
“It’s fighting, that’s what happens,” Marshall says. “He looked with it, like he was together from what I could see, and it worked out. Look, that is never the game plan. In the next fight the plan’s not going to be go back to the fence and do that again. We’ve all seen at heavyweight, especially with the gloves we wear, one shot ends it. One shot ended for Alistair. That one knee coming around the side of Aleksei’s head, boom. It was more competitive at that point, but the shots on the ground finished it off. So your game plan can’t be to take shots.”
If there’s a constant in Overeem’s prolonged run as a heavyweight contender, it’s his clinch … and his kicks … and those devastating knees. He landed a big knee on Oleinik that essentially swung the fight in his favor. That’s the one thing that Marshall and crew have been pop-eyed about, is those knees.
Not the impact of them, because anyone who has watched Overeem over the years knows something about that. No, more about the abomination that those knees are, the sheer immensity of size and volume of those molten bone-melt formations.
“Have you seen his knees? It’s like he went and had surgery and had extra bone put in there or something,” Marshall says. “I looked at it one time and I was like — I don’t know what it is. His knees are formed differently than other people’s knees. His knees literally have point on the knee. And it’s really hard, and he’s good at throwing them.
“Each athlete has their thing. Shane Carwin’s hand was as big as a person’s head. When he hit you with it, it was like getting hit with a bowling ball rather than my puny ass hand. Alistair has those knees.”
--mmafighting.com
Just like that, the “Reem” is back, and he’s hoping that his scheduled fight with Alexander Volkov rematerializes. His new coaching staff is enjoying the late resurgence, even if things didn’t go exactly according to plan in Russia.
“It’s fighting, that’s what happens,” Marshall says. “He looked with it, like he was together from what I could see, and it worked out. Look, that is never the game plan. In the next fight the plan’s not going to be go back to the fence and do that again. We’ve all seen at heavyweight, especially with the gloves we wear, one shot ends it. One shot ended for Alistair. That one knee coming around the side of Aleksei’s head, boom. It was more competitive at that point, but the shots on the ground finished it off. So your game plan can’t be to take shots.”
If there’s a constant in Overeem’s prolonged run as a heavyweight contender, it’s his clinch … and his kicks … and those devastating knees. He landed a big knee on Oleinik that essentially swung the fight in his favor. That’s the one thing that Marshall and crew have been pop-eyed about, is those knees.
Not the impact of them, because anyone who has watched Overeem over the years knows something about that. No, more about the abomination that those knees are, the sheer immensity of size and volume of those molten bone-melt formations.
“Have you seen his knees? It’s like he went and had surgery and had extra bone put in there or something,” Marshall says. “I looked at it one time and I was like — I don’t know what it is. His knees are formed differently than other people’s knees. His knees literally have point on the knee. And it’s really hard, and he’s good at throwing them.
“Each athlete has their thing. Shane Carwin’s hand was as big as a person’s head. When he hit you with it, it was like getting hit with a bowling ball rather than my puny ass hand. Alistair has those knees.”
--mmafighting.com
