American heavyweight Brett Rogers gets genuinely angry when the subject of Alistair Overeem comes up. An incident in a hotel last year, where Overeem supposedly gave him the brush-off, has provided Rogers with a very real dislike of the Strikeforce champion.
So much so that he carries a picture of Overeem around with him. Speaking to Fighters Only, he produced the picture from his pocket and began railing against the Strikeforce heavyweight champion, who he fights on May 15th.
“This is him right here, looking like a darn chipmunk. This dude is a pretty boy at heart, I swear to god I am going to crush him,” Rogers said as he brandished the photograph.
“He is one of those guys that is just real cocky and arrogant. I don’t like him. Its gonna be a fun fight because I don’t like him. He is on talking he is going to smack me when he sees me? I am definitely going to put that to the test whenever I see him.”
“A lot of people don’t understand this, I have been trying to get at him for the past year, like before the Andrei [Arlovski] fight. Right after the Abongo fight I was gunning for him. I figured why not go for the top, you know? There is no other reason to be fighting unless you’re fighting for the title,” he added.
Rogers is coming off a loss to Fedor Emelianenko but says he would like revenge on the Russian if he can get past Overeem and claim the Strikeforce heavyweight title. “I know I can beat him. When I went into the fight I guess my mind was just playing tricks on me. I was expecting to fight somebody different, I was expecting him to be a little more aggressive,” he says of the fight he lost to Fedor by way of second-round stoppage.
From Fighters only magazine
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