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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Alistair Overeem's camp has responded to Fedor Emelianenko's comments this week that the Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion has been "making excuses not to fight him."
In a post on Facebook, Overeem's Manager and head of Dutch camp Golden Glory Bas Boon laughed off the statements made by Fedor.
"[For] 15 months we [wanted] to fight Fedor, but Fedor wanted [Brett] Rogers instead," Boon wrote. "Then after Alistair destroys Rogers, Fedor fights [Fabricio] Werdum[sic]? Alistair goes to challenge the winner, which is Werdum. Fedor only [wanted a] rematch... with Werdrum and not [a] fight with Alistair.
"Werdum [is] out with injury, we still [wanted] to fight Fedor, but he refuses. Then when we finally decided to participate in K-1 and make the news official, M-1/Fedor wants to fight Overeem 2 days after Alistair and GG make an official statement that he will fight in the K-1 WGP, what a joke M1/Fedor!!"
Overeem is waiting for Fabricio Werdum to recover from his injury for a fight for the Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship in 2011. Fedor has one fight left on his Strikeforce contract, and openly pondered retirement after that fight.
Penick's Analysis: This is the reaction many had to Fedor's comments, as it's simply laughable that he would say it's been Overeem's camp coming up with excuses. It's a fight that should have been put together much earlier, and it doesn't have the luster for Overeem that it did when Golden Glory was trying to get that fight together with Fedor and M-1.
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