Close Call

Alistair Overeem is a fucking monster.  Take a look at him:

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He is 6'5" and weighs 260 pounds and his arms are almost as thick as my penis.  He's goddamn huge.  He's also the former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Heavyweight Champion and K-1 World Grand Prix Champion.  He is the only man in combat sports history to hold a world title in both mixed-martial-arts and kickboxing.  A monster.

This is why his fight with Brock Lesnar at UFC 141 on December 30th is my most anticipated fight in, I don't know, forever.  It's my most anticipated fight ever, let's put it that way.  Brock is also a monster.  He's a former UFC Heavyweight Champion with less than 10 fights in his career and was one of the greatest NCAA Division 1 wrestlers of all time.  This will be a heavyweight fight for the ages.


This ridiculously awesome fight was threatened recently to be cancelled.  Why, you may ask?  Here's a picture of Alistair Overeem from around 2006:

Nerd.

So clearly he's gotten bigger and the Nevada State Athletic Commission wants to make sure his biceps are on the up and up.  Overeem provided a blood test to the NSAC which came back clean.  Phew.  He's not in the clear, yet, though.

First, he must provide an observed (perverts) urine test within the next 72 hours.  Then, he must be tested upon arriving to the U.S. from his home in the Netherlands prior to his fight at UFC 141.  And third, he is required to provide two more tests after his fight with Lesnar.  And fourth, he has to solve a Rubik's Cube in under 4 minutes while hanging upside down.  Phew?  Clearly the folks over in the USA aren't convinced he's achieved such massive muscular gains naturally.

It's ridiculous that people immediately jump to steroids when someone has gained a lot of muscle.  There are natural ways to achieve huge gains, if one uses the proper nutrition, exercises and yes, legal supplements.  Overeem didn't just suddenly explode and get bigger, it's been a gradual increase.  The guy is only 31 years old and it's completely natural that at the beginning of his career, when he was much younger, he would be much smaller.   Especially if he wasn't on a muscle gaining workout regiment. 

I don't necessarily fault the NSAC for wanting to make sure all fighters are competing fairly, but why don't they just come right out and say, "Hey Alistair, we think you're a juice monkey."

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