{"id":394365,"date":"2022-06-27T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394365"},"modified":"2022-06-27T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:25:31","slug":"its-been-up-and-down-former-ufc-heavyweight-alistair-overeem-walks-back-disparaging-comments-about-pro-wrestling-ahead-of-upcoming-bout-against-braun-strowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/its-been-up-and-down-former-ufc-heavyweight-alistair-overeem-walks-back-disparaging-comments-about-pro-wrestling-ahead-of-upcoming-bout-against-braun-strowman\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It\u2019s Been Up and Down&#8217;- Former UFC Heavyweight Alistair Overeem Walks Back Disparaging Comments About Pro Wrestling Ahead of Upcoming Bout Against Braun Strowman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight MMA legend Alistair Overeem spoke to Ariel Helwani on a recent edition of the MMA Hour and he walked back comments he made last year. Overeem went on record saying that he wasn\u2019t a fan of professional wrestling as he saw it to be \u2018lame\u2019 and he mentioned famed pro wrestler and two-time UFC fighter CM Punk when sharing his disdain for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Overeem talked about how he was once into the sport while growing up but he grew out of it. After leaving the sport of pro wrestling behind 20 years ago, Alistair Overeem has seemingly decided to venture into the world of pro wrestling.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ce_L1IiKPVy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ce_L1IiKPVy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by BLACK BANANAS (@blackbananasnl)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s lame, it\u2019s stupid. It\u2019s not even a sport. It\u2019s just lame. It\u2019s bad acting. It\u2019s just lame. Sorry for all the fans of WWE, but I\u2019m just being honest. I\u2019m just giving my opinion. Free country, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think it\u2019s lame, and because I hadn\u2019t seen it for 20 years. I never watched Brock fight. I never watched CM Punk fight. I knew they were from WWE.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/dana-white-and-like-half-the-ufc-roster-they-thought-i-did-enough-max-holloway-opens-up-on-his-controversial-loss-against-alexander-volkanovski-at-ufc-251\/\">\u201cDana White, and Like Half the UFC Roster\u2026..they Thought I Did Enough\u201d- Max Holloway Opens up on His Controversial Loss Against Alexander Volkanovski at UFC 251<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alistair Overeem is set to face former WWE superstar Braun Strowman in England on July 9 as the main event for a card. This is a major pivot from his earlier statements from 2021 that disparaged the pro wrestling business in a major way.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLife is interesting, let me put it that way. Cause on the one hand you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh yeah, you\u2019re talking smack and then you\u2019re doing it yourself.\u2019 Not too big a fan of it lately, but again, in my defense, I was a huge fan in the 80s when I was 8 or 9 or 10, 11, 12 [years old]. So it\u2019s been up and down, and now it\u2019s up again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0V0WtIckIow\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was always, just to remind you, not too flattering about kickboxing guys. I\u2019m kickboxing now. I was kickboxing 10 years ago. I was kickboxing 25 years ago, so that\u2019s a little bit of the up and down thing, right?\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/26\/23151135\/alistair-overeem-explains-move-into-pro-wrestling-after-calling-it-lame-and-stupid-in-the-past\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MMA fans are excited to see Alistair Overeem in a new avatar while he\u2019s also turning back the clock with his return to the kickboxing scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight MMA legend Alistair Overeem spoke to Ariel Helwani on a recent edition of the MMA Hour and he walked back comments he made last year. Overeem went on record saying that he wasn\u2019t a fan of professional wrestling as he saw it to be \u2018lame\u2019 and he mentioned famed pro wrestler and two-time UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":394368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}