Was Overeen the most technical HW striker ever?

[DanDragon Machi]

Raw technique--wise: Alistair, Mirko and Gane
Technique + lethality (effectiveness) : Nganou followed by Aspinall, Miocic, JDS and Fedor

 

[Marko Polo]

Could be. He expanded his repertoire late on as well adding oblique kicks etc. Reem had great technique, but he wasn’t the best fighter once the going got tough.

 

[The Blue Bird]

Most accomplished heavyweight striker imo

 

[koa pomaikai]

Can’t recall Reem ever having good head movement. His defense is just a high guard and shelling up.

 

[muaythaibeast]

Semmy Schilt?

 

[Shaolin Alan]

Igor Vovchanchyn

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

From a purely offensive point of view, it's a strong argument. If we started talking about defense though, like having a good guard and utilizing head movement, he takes quite a few minus points from there

 

[JIGGERS]

His striking accuracy was insane, something like 75% IIRC. That definitely counts for something.

 

[TheMadHatter]

if he didnt use the dutch defense for MMA I would agree. it works better with larger gloves.

 

[HHJ]

It was awesome when he got outstruck by Ben rothwell and Travis Browne

tee hee

 

[Killroy]

Volkov deserves some credit as well from a technical standpoint

 

[Deleted member 513083]

I loved me some Overeem when I was younger, but honestly he wasn't all that as a Kickboxer either.
Kinda got lucky with how the Grand prix played out, when he won it.

He had his best success as a striker on the horsemeat, his style was mostly a high guard and trying to get in close for knees or the clinch in general. If we go purely by Technique I would say a Pedro Rizzo had better technique, Kharitonov and well the most obvious choice Semmy Schilt. Schilt was not the most spectacular, aside from his size obviously, but he played to his advantages extremely well.

Alistair might be one of the HW with the best degree in striking because of the GP he won (Like I mentioned kind of got lucky there) but I wouldn't say he was the most technical striker.
Ecoreem did work on his striking game well but overall Alistair always was more pure strength than finesse.

 

[fjodor]

Gane should not be mentioned with those names.

 

[treelo]

in MMA, im going for Ray Mercer

 

[blaseblase]

Gane's the best striker we've seen in heavyweight MMA and unlike Overeem has been able to deal with the heavy hitters. He also doesn't pack a lot of power so it's impressive what he's been able to do.

 

[pooknicca]

I’ll always give props for Overeem’s adaptability and longevity of his career but I’ve always found his striking ability to be highly inflated. He had powerful knees and kicks but there were far too many deficits to call him a technical striker. 1) he had absolutely terrible footwork and would literally sprint when finding himself out of position 2) he never threw any type of boxing combinations 3) despite being a “Dutch kickboxer” he always threw naked kicks 4) he completed lacked head movement. Which is why you’ve seen him out struck on various occasions against “lesser strikers”.

 

[Ibm]

Orlovski is pretty technical

 

[Deleted member 491149]

Kharitonov deserves a mention as well, ruthless hooks and uppercuts, especially to the body,

Has elite wins in MMA: werdum, overeem, arlovski, Rizzo, schilt, mitrione

Tko'd the 'other' Anderson Silva in kickboxing,

Beat Malik Scott in boxing


Aleksander Emelianenko had some huge potential that he squandered, lethal hands, amazing control of distance and footwork, but we know how his story ends.

 

[deviake]

Close.

As an aside, he's one of those guys who I think was incorrectly said to have a bad chin like Arlovski, but in reality I think got stopped a lot from lack of head movement/defense.

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

It was awesome when he got outstruck by Ben rothwell and Travis Browne

tee hee