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UFC/MMA: Overeem KOs Lesnar into retirement
Posted December 30, 2011
Alistair Overeem ended Brock Lesnar's career by winning the battle of heavyweight archetypes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Overeem stopped Lesnar with a technical knockout Friday in the first round of UFC 141's main event in Las Vegas. Lesnar after the fight announced his retirement.
UFC promoted the fight as a match-up of opposites, between Overeem's high-level striking and Lesnar's powerful wrestling. Lesnar was willing to exchange blows in the stand-up game with Overeem and paid the price. (MORE>>>)
UFC/MMA: Alistair Overeem passes drug test
Posted December 20, 2011
Alistair Overeem is a step closer to ensuring his fight versus Brock Lesnar on Dec. 30 will take place as scheduled.
Per the terms of a conditional one-year license issued by the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Dec. 12, Overeem submitted a urine sample two days later at an accredited laboratory in the United Kingdom.
The sample was subsequently shipped to a Quest Diagnostics facility in Lenexa, Kan., where testing revealed it was negative for all prohibited substances, according to a statement issued by NSAC executive director Keith Kizer on Tuesday.
That test ended a nearly month-long chain of events, in which Overeem left the United States the day the test was first ordered, submitted a blood test instead of the urine test the Nevada commission requires, then submitted a urine sample which was returned to his doctor untested. (MORE>>>)
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