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about your favorite actors and athletes. The main character of our video today is Alistair Overeem.
Alistair Overeem, in full Alistair Cees Overeem, is a Dutch professional heavyweight mixed martial
artist and kickboxer, born on May 17, 1980 in Hounslow, England. He is currently competing in
the heavyweight division of kickboxing promotion Glory. Overeem is a former Strikeforce Heavyweight
Champion, DREAM Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and was the first fighter
to hold world titles in MMA and K-1 kickboxing at the same time. The Dutch fighter one of the
few athletes that’s proven capable of maintaining successful MMA and kickboxing careers at once.
Overeem was born to a Jamaican father and a Dutch mother. When he was six years old,
his parents divorced and he moved with his mother and older brother, Valentijn,
to the Netherlands. Always interested in athletics, he began practicing judo,
and playing basketball as a youngster. At the urging of his older brother, he began training
in kickboxing and Muay Thai when he was 15, which led to training for mixed martial arts.
Overeem has a daughter named Storm, born 17 October 2006.
Overeem and his current fiancée
have two daughters: Yazz-ley Rey (born 2016) and Sensi-Liss Royce (born 2017).
Overeem had his first MMA professional fight in the late 90s, at 19 years old.
He got a 10-3 record in several promotions before debuting in Pride Fighting Championships in 2002.
For the next nine years, he would go back and forth between the Pride and Strikeforce circuits.
He also fought Dream and Dynamite championship bouts. After a pay dispute with Strikeforce in
mid-2011, he and a number of other fighters were released from their contracts. Overeem was signed
by the UFC on September 6, 2011 and won his first UFC Championship bout on December 30,
2011. As of this video he has won 47 of his 67 MMA bouts. On March 3, 2021, it was announced that
Overeem had been released from his UFC contract. Overeem had his first professional kickboxing
fight at the age of 17, in a K-1 rules fight on 15 November 1997, winning the fight. On 11 December,
2010 at the Ariake Coliseum, Overeem won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 Final.
Over a decade removed from his previous kickboxing bouts, news surfaced on June 8, 2021,
that Overeem had signed a multi-fight contract with Glory. Till this day, Overeem has won 10 out
of his 14 kickboxing bouts. The Dutch fighter was the first fighter to hold world titles in MMA and
K-1 kickboxing at the same time, and one of the few athletes that’s proven capable of maintaining
successful MMA and kickboxing careers at once.
According to Celebrity Net Worth site,
the net worth of Alistair Overeem is around $10 million.
Not many of his fans know that he has relations with the royal family of the Netherlands,
and also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He has been linked with King Willem III from his maternal
side. ‘The Demolition Man’ has definitely made his country and his ancestors proud by becoming one of
the most notable fighters in the game. His success also led Prince Willem Alexander to invite him to
dinner at the Royal Dutch House. Overeem had a 14-to-1
testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio, over the allowed ratio rate of 6-to-1.
Overeem is considered one of the most well-rounded heavyweights in the sport, though he is mainly
known for his excellence and power in the striking field. He was also labeled as "the best grappler
in Europe" after submitting all his opponents in the ADCC 2005 tryouts through this move.
Overeem has a cameo appearance in the music video for LMFAO's hit single "Sexy and I Know It".
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