Did you see Alistair Overeem's lip after the fight with Jairzinho Rozenstruik? Not a pretty sight! It looks like Overeem had a smart game plan that was well executed for almost the whole fight. I saw the score cards. Two of the three judges had Overeem winning the first three rounds and one had him winning all four. Or was it two had him winning all four and one the first three? I'm not sure but, either way, all he had to do was survive the final round to take a unanimous decision. It must have been a sickener to have it stopped with seconds remaining. It was a strange stoppage. Rozenstruik walked away thinking it was job done, Overeem got up straight away but turned away from his opponent and then the referee waved it off. TKO. I heard Michael Bisping say he thought Rozenstruik going for the walk away knock out influenced the referee. Maybe the ref saw his lip and thought to wave it off then. But the final bell was about to go so if Overeem was on his feet he could have faced off and waited the few seconds to the bell and then the judges decision would have been a fairer reflection of the whole five rounds.
Rozenstruik called out Francis Ngannou afterwards. That would be an interesting fight. Two fighters known for insane punching power. But then again Derrick Lewis is known for his ko power and look how that went with Francis. Francis has star power and the UFC heavyweights, if not the UFC itself, are wasting that by not giving him fights. The man needs to earn a living and I think it's living off his savings and the cost of a camp without an income are troubling him as much as not getting fights and the title being held up by Daniel Cormier wanting another shot at the title against Stipe. Although, now that I've said that, he was in a recent Fast & Furious movie so maybe it's not the income thing. He says he has other options after his UFC contract is finished but it'd be a shame to lose him. I'd rather see him in the octagon than typecast in an action movie franchise.
I must admit, I didn't see the Overeem v Rozenstruik fight. I don't have access to tv channels that show the fights or subscription on the web. That means I won't see the card at the weekend. In fairness, I'm not going through a pay wall to see Colby Covington even if I could. I don't like him and the persona he puts on. That's the problem with the current system. When I was in a position to actively buy and stream PPV online they had changed to the ESPN system. So you can only buy PPV through ESPN or Eir sports and BT sports in Ireland. I don't have their tv services and cannot access UFC PPV events because of this. It's very unfair. I wish I could just go on the UFC website and buy the PPV I want and stream it from there. I'm not paying for shit I don't need and will never go through a pay wall to watch. I don't know what I'll do the time Khabib v Tony comes around or even how I'll be able to access Conor v Cowboy if I want to go about it.
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