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Strikeforce's heavyweight champion, Alistair Overeem, declares boxing as the superior combat sport when compared to MMA according to mmamania.com.

"Let's cut to the chase, there's a lot of money to be made in boxing. It is the most popular combat sport out there. I mean, MMA is doing really well and it might overtake boxing but boxing is still the number one. If you look at the revenues made by boxing it is a big difference, a big difference." Overeem said.
Overeem has expressed his interest in jumping into the ring, rather than the cage, recently when he voiced his desires to fight Wladimir Klitschko. Klitschko is a heavyweight multi-titled champion from Ukraine who sports a 56-3 boxing record, highly regarded as one of the best pound for pound boxers in the world.

It is unclear if a boxing match between Overeem and Klitschko would ever materialize in the future. In the meantime, Overeem is sidelined from Strikeforce's heavyweight grand prix's semifinal round due to an injured toe. He was originally scheduled to fight Antonio Silva, who will now fight Daniel Cormier.

United Glory announced today that Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem is slated to compete in its next event scheduled for October in Moscow, Russia.

According to the poster for the event, “The Reem” will be joined by fellow Golden Glory fighters Sergei Kharitonov and Siyar Bahadurzada on the card.

Some might think that the move by Overeem, who was removed from the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix after refusing to compete in the second round of the tournament a month earlier than he was originally slated to do so, may have been done for leverage in negotiating his next deal with the Zuffa-owned organization. According to his longtime trainer Martijn de Jong, who first confirmed his fighter’s inclusion on the Glory card with MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani, that is not the case and an opponent for “The Demolition Man” who will compete in the MMA portion of the show, will be named soon.

His current agreement was to conclude at the end of the GP, however it’s unclear whether or not he is still under contract with Strikeforce since he is no longer in the tournament.

Overeem, who, like Nick Diaz recently stated that he may make the transition to boxing if he continues to feel disrespected by Strikeforce and UFC ‘s parent company, told Helwani during last week’s episode of the MMA Hour that he would be fighting in October regardless of whether or not it was under the Zuffa umbrella. It appears he wasn’t kidding.

Middleweight champion of the UFC, the Brazilian fighter Anderson Silva hit him with a new sponsor for the UFC River in August and will become the poster boy for U.S. network Burger King in Brazil, attending promotional events.

The signing of the sponsorship was 9ine company, owned by former footballer Ronaldo's career and takes care of the main Brazilian fighter in MMA today.

"Anderson has a great identity with the brand, is an idol of many audiences, especially young people, our main customers. We believe he has much to contribute to make the new campaign more fun and impactful, "said Paul Davis, manager of network marketing of snack bars.

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Zuffa cuts...

On Thursday, UFC president Dana White said that there is a "higher than 50-50" chance that the promotion does its yearly New Year's weekend show in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.

The UFC historically prefers to do the big annual show in Las Vegas, but the calendar works against them this year, with the last Saturday of the year falling on New Year's Eve, obviously a popular party night. That would cut drastically into gate receipts in a party town like Vegas, but with limited trips to foreign lands, it could draw better abroad.

The UFC first visited Abu Dhabi in April 2010 with UFC 112, a card which hosted two championship bouts, including Anderson SIlva's curious and infamous decision win over Demian Maia. To date, it has been the first and only event held there since a portion of the promotion was purchased by Flash Entertainment, a government-owned company.

For a time, the UFC entertained the idea of hosting a show in March of this year before venue issues derailed the possibility. Much like their first go-round there, the UFC would have a specially built arena constructed just for its event if they chose to return.

Bas Rutten kommenterer på Zuffa-Golden Glory sagen

Fra BJPenn.com:

Quote: Bas Boon

First of all we would like to thank all the support of the fans.

The Golden Glory management discussed before coming to the US about the payment situation and it was agreed to speak with a Zuffa lawyer about this in Vancouver, to find a solution.

There was a contract in place and Golden Glory and Einemo honored the UFC rules including getting the check [in] the fighter’s name (Einemo showed his check in the gym as well which was [in] his name and Alistair and Valentijn also confirmed their payment was done by check in their name. The Zuffa lawyer explained that the fighters could open an account at a bank [where] the UFC did their banking and the check would clear in only two days instead of 6 weeks [to] 8 weeks (that’s how long it takes to clear a check in a foreign country, which was also an issue for some of the fighters) and they could then transfer the amount to the final destination [of] their choice. They were thankful and did this.

The reason that the Golden Glory management company is doing this business for the GG fighters for over 12 years with payment directly to the management company is for the benefit of the fighters, coaches and trainers are paid on time and the management company will take care of [bookkeeping] and taxes and exchange rates and legal help for the fighters.

We have many fighters from many different parts of the world and also have gyms in Berlin, Germany, Liverpool, England, Pattaya, Thailand, California, USA, Bucharest, Romania, Moscow, Russia and three gyms in Holland. Golden Glory is growing on an international level and we are working with one management company to coordinate these businesses.

Fighters only sign agreements with promoters if coaches, trainers, management and the fighter agree with the terms, regardless to whom the payment will be done.

The Strikeforce situation was different.

Behind the scenes I was preparing a great deal for corporation between Strikeforce, DREAM, K-1 and Glory to do something great together with Scott [Coker] (this included a TV channel and footage deal). I introduced Scott [through] a partner of mine in LA to some powerful people in the US (Scott was very surprised after this meeting and [texted] and [emailed] me after his meeting with these people how impressed he was). I never could have guessed that at the same moment I was talking to Scott to make a massive move for becoming a real competitor to the UFC, Scott was already talking with the same UFC for selling Strikeforce.

Scott told me that he had partners and that there were financial difficulties with Strikeforce and any new TV or other deal they would welcome. As I am a producer as well (produced more then 1000 hour of fighting content and also made tons of other deals for promoters like the K-1 live broadcasting on the Dutch TV Channel SBS6) I trusted Scott with some business plans as I knew Scott from the time he was a promoter for K-1 and we all wanted to move forward in the fight business.

Scott convinced me to start working with Strikeforce, we always had a better deal in Japan and Europe, but as K-1 was having a lot of difficulties and Scott giving us all the terms we wanted, we started taking steps to do more and more business with Strikeforce.

The problem with Strikeforce was that we made some agreements with Scott, which was creating headaches now [that] Zuffa took over.

The fighters were paid in the previous Strikeforce bouts to an account of the management without any problems, yet UFC claimed this was impossible. Then the fighters were [losing] sponsors as the UFC took over Strikeforce as they implemented their new rules. [Their view was that] if you can sponsor the fighter you should sponsor the organization first. I understand this from a business point of few, but some companies can’t [afford] to pay 100K or more to an organization. And some fighters getting 5 or 10K in sponsorship is [where] they actually can make some good money. We just wanted the things as they were before, but it was far from what it was before. The payment was done how the UFC wanted and again we agreed and did the same as in Vancouver, so that matter was solved so I do not understand why Danna claims we did not agree? We did not have a choice and never said we would not fight in the future or that we would refuse to work like this in the future (we worked out that problem with the Zuffa lawyer in the Vancouver and even agreed with their new sponsor policies). Maybe there is a miscommunication and [Dana] was not well informed that the direct payment issue was solved and no longer an issue as I myself have been in and out hospital for two weeks because of heath issues (the reason why this press release is so late).

Anyway we regret the response from Zuffa and the releases, but it is their company and they can do what they want. We would like to keep working in the future with the UFC and with this statement I [clearly] say that direct payment to any of our fighter was not a problem and will not be a problem in the future. We just want to be able to produce great fighters and create great fights for the fans. We have no intention for co-promotion deals and are even willing to make an exclusive deal for Alistair Overeem to fight in the UFC, if the terms are right.

Team Golden Glory

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