#2 Won The StrikeForce Heavyweight Grand Prix In Unlikely Circumstances
At the point when Scott Coker declared the dispatch of a StrikeForce Heavyweight Grand Prix in mid 2011, it seemed like a battle fan’s fantasy – the sort of competition that PRIDE would placed on in its prime, with the greatest names from outside the UFC all entering the competition.
The eight-man competition was originally being formed by Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Silva, Andrei Arlovski, Sergei Kharitonov, Josh Barnett, Brett Rogers, Fabricio Werdum, and after that StrikeForce Heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem. Those names alone had fans salivating – to such an extent that the “alternate” session among Cormier and Jeff Monson went to a great extent disregarded.
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As it turned out however, it was much more imperative than anybody could have envisioned. Cormier easily outpointed Monson on a similar show, that saw Overeem vanquish Werdum – yet before long, an agreement question expelled the Dutchman from the competition and all of a sudden, Cormier was pegged to have his spot.
Coordinated in the semi-finals against Silva – AKA ‘Bigfoot’, who had beaten Fedor and remained as the greatest man in the opposition – few anticipated that Cormier would end up as the winner, to a great extent because of the enormous size contrast he was surrendering. Be that as it may, ‘DC’ stunned everybody by thumping Silva out in the first round, really touching base as a tip top Heavyweight.
Also, in spite of the fact that the last match against Josh Barnett occurred 8 months later – when the vast majority of the radiance of the Grand Prix was lost – Cormier still figured out how to win in spite of surrendering a great deal of size once more. This time he fundamentally tossed Barnett around like a cloth doll in transit to a consistent choice.
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At the point when the Grand Prix started, Overeem was the man StrikeForce’s supporters were putting their limited time muscle behind – yet when it finished they had discovered a star from the most improbable conditions.
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