WHO: STRIKEFORCE and DREAM Heavyweight World Champion Alistair Overeem
WHERE: ESPN2
WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 10, at Midnight ET / 9 p.m. PT
WHAT: Interview on MMA LIVE Thursday on ESPN2
The STRIKEFORCE and DREAM Heavyweight Champion will discuss, among other things, the STRIKEFORCE Grand Prix – Heavyweight Tournament that begins this Saturday, Feb. 12, at IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., live on SHOWTIME® (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast).
In Saturday’s main event, Fedor Emelianenko (31-2, 1 NC) faces Antonio “Big Foot” Silva (15-2) in a STRIKEFORCE and M-1 GLOBAL co-promoted event. The opening quarterfinal on the telecast will match former world champion Andrei Arlovski (15-8) against Russian star Sergei Kharitonov (16-4).
The other two quarterfinal matchups in a three-stage, single-elimination tournament will take place at a site and date to be announced. Overeem (34-11, 1 NC) will face the only man to tap out Fedor, the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist Fabricio Werdum (14-4-1), and hard-hitting Brett “The Grim” Rogers (11-2) will be opposed by Josh Barnett (29-5).
