What on Earth is Overeem doing?

[Toothlessjoe]

His strategy just isn't working. For a veteran it's so weird.

He's been using that pull off to the side + throwing a looping left, arcing left for a few fights now, it's what he threw when Francis sent him to the moon. He must have so many uncommon techniques to catch out HWs, but this isn't one that works yet he keeps going to it.

I get the shelling up too, he knows HWs gas quickly, so they dump energy as they try to pummel him, but he just can't seem to absorb it before they gas.

He should just go for broke every fight to be honest, I'd give him better odds.

 

[usernamee]

You should be surprised he still remembers how to throw a 1-2 after all the damage he has taken.

Yet here he is actually still winning fights in the UFC.

That guy is fucking special.

Anyways, please retire Reem.

 

[Askren’s chin]

He should start rolling for ankles and kneebars imo

 

[tramendous]

He has brutal knees. Dont know why he doesnt clinch and fire them off. He also has a good ground game that he doesnt use as much as he should.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Winning. Except when he's not.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

Slidin into DMs, bein a boss.

 

[Reach4theSky]

 

[kingghidrah]

For a K-1 champ he sure doesn't seem to want to engage in kickboxing.

What happened to his kicks? He used to have legit power that people feared.

 

[NoBiasJustMMA]

That feigning then throwing big single shots style isn't working. I do find it weird that he's been doing it more lately cause most of the times I can think of that he fought like that it wasn't very successful(Stipe, Ngannou, Volkov). I get the feeling that Overeem is declining physically a lot every fight now at his age/fight mileage and that might be the reason why he's doing it.

 

[Martialbeef]

I know Volkov has a decent chin, but when he swallowed one or two of Reems punches without blinking i knew it was over

 

[Breaking]

It’s desperation, I think.

He knows that he can still compete, but (I assume) he also knows that his body is failing him.

He can no longer do the things that earned him victories in the past, so he’s developed some new techniques that can work against some fighters.

But when he’s facing a fighter who is well-rounded and technically sound, he looks like a fucking idiot.

I think that he is fully aware of this, but that he has the balls to give it an honest shot, anyway.

And he likes the paydays...

 

[whaleshark]

Collecting checks and banging bitches

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Gassing your opponent by shelling on flurries and literally being a human punching-bag are slightly different strategies

 

[blaseblah]

His shelling up technique has worked up until now.

 

[MuayThaiBX]

It seems that once he realized the mortality of his chin he stopped training his standup much at all. He used to have such good striking, even mixing in well placed combos. Now he almost exclusively just throws that looping left as he enters hoping for a clinch. There is literally nothing else to his striking game. He used to be about the best HW striker. I know he's older but it just seems so weird that he has abandoned his standup pretty much.

 

[TheMessiah]

He's scared to get hit. He knew it was his last run and had to fight so carefully

 

[Wizzlebiz]

The announcers need to stop referring to him as some kind of master class striker from K1.

He is no where close to that guy anymore and when they refer to that it's just embarrassing.

 

[Motivated BJ Penn]

He has brutal knees. Dont know why he doesnt clinch and fire them off. He also has a good ground game that he doesnt use as much as he should.

He tried clinching with Volkov a few times, but he just shrugged him off like a child

 

[ninja boot]

Overeem is doing what every guy that shouldn't be fighting anymore is doing. getting slapped around by guys that actually can still fight and collecting that show money.

 

[15089371]

Going hard is what got him the first losses in the ufc. His style has transformed into a bit of weird thing, but it's effective quite a lot too. He's just not good enough for the guys at the top.