Хүнд жингийн шилдэг тулаанч Алистар Оверим 12 дугаар сарын 24-нд болох Жейк Пол болон Седрик Думбе нарын тулааны өмнөх үзүүлбэрт Жими Мануватай боксын рингэнд хүч үзэхээр боллоо.
UFC-ийн асан Алистар Оверим болон Жими Манува нар Дубайд болох тулааны үдшийн хүрээнд боксын рингэнд тулалдах гэж байна. Энэхүү тулаан нь 46 настай Оверимийн хувьд боксын спортын анхны гараа болох бөгөөд тэрээр сүүлийн дөрвөн жил рингэнд гараагүй юм. Түүний хамгийн сүүлийн тулаан кикбоксын төрлөөр Бадр Харитай хийсэн тулаан байсан ч допингийн шинжилгээний улмаас үр дүнгүй гэж тооцогдсон билээ.
Түүний өрсөлдөгч Жими Манува наймдугаар сард боксын рингэнд дебют хийж, Чейз Шерманыг хоёр дахь раундад техникийн нокаутаар ялсан амжилттай. Оверим энэ тулааны талаар хэлэхдээ, өөрийгөө зүгээр нэг тоо бөглөх гэж ирээгүй гэдгээ онцлоод, Жими Мануваг ялсны дараа Рико Верховенийг дараагийн зорилтоо болгохоо мэдэгдлээ.
Рико Верховений хувьд өмнө нь Александр Усиктэй тулалдаж, шүүгчдийн маргаантай шийдвэрээр ялагдсан билээ. Оверим энэ талаар дурдахдаа, Верховенийг техникийн хувьд чадварлаг ч нокаут хийх тал дээр дутмаг гэж үзэж байгаагаа илэрхийлээд, Нидерландад 60 мянган хүний суудалтай цэнгэлдэх хүрээлэнд түүнтэй тулалдах боломжтойг дурдсан байна.
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On 24 December, Alistair Overeem will fight for the first time in five years as he boxes Jimi Manuwa.
Overeem, a kickboxing legend and former UFC heavyweight title challenger, will face Manuwa on the undercard of Jake Paul vs Cedric Doumbe in Dubai.
The fight will mark Overeem’s boxing debut, and it will take place four years after he last competed, with the the 46-year-old’s most-recent outing coming against Badr Hari in the kickboxing ring.
The result was originally a win for Overeem, but the Dutchman was found to have failed a drug test, thus it was overturned to a no-contest.
Against Manuwa, 46, Overeem will be facing a fellow UFC alum who competed at light-heavyweight.
Manuwa made his boxing debut in August, stopping Chase Sherman in two rounds, and he will hope to build on that win before YouTube star Paul faces Doumbe – a former kickboxing champion who has more recently fought in mixed martial arts (MMA).
“I’ve fought the best in the world, and I’ve been a world champion in multiple disciplines,” Overeem said via a press release on Thursday. “Now I’m starting a new chapter in boxing, and I’m not here to make up the numbers.
“Jimi Manuwa is a dangerous man with serious knockout power, but I’ve built my career on taking the toughest challenges in combat sports. I grew up in the Netherlands, but Dubai is my home now, and on Christmas Eve I’m bringing the ‘Demolition Man’ to Coca-Cola Arena. Jimi had better be ready, because I’m coming to put on a show. Once I stop Jimi, Rico Verhoeven is next on my hit list.”
Verhoeven is a compatriot and former training partner of Overeem, and he recently traded kickboxing for boxing, taking on Oleksandr Usyk in May.
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Verhoeven seemed to be winning the fight but suffered a late, controversial stoppage by the Ukrainian, who was the unified heavyweight champion at the time; and the scorecards were later revealed to be closer than most viewers had expected.
Overeem told The Independent in August: “Rico did great, and I was like, ‘Hey, this is a guy I still have a score to settle with. Can’t let him get away.’
“Rico is the guy that came after me [in kickboxing], but didn’t really do it, because Glory [Kickboxing] was not big enough and the landscape kind of changed. He also didn’t have the MMA pedigree, so he couldn’t jump ship. Nonetheless, he did a good job in kickboxing – lacking some of the knockouts, though.
“So, big guy, great cardio, but a lot of decision wins, so people kind of look at it like he’s like a little bit of a boring heavyweight, even though I could always see the the technical ability.
“He’s either he’s going to accept or he’s not going to accept, and then he’s going to lose face. It’s amazing how many people stop me in the street [in the Netherlands] and are like: ‘Hey, when is the Rico fight?’ So, it is moving people exactly how I thought it would. […] I’m talking to the team, and they’re talking about Amsterdam Arena, soccer stadium, 60,000 [people].”
