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Middle Easy manages to always find the most random MMA-related stuff on the internet. For instance, here’s Alistair Overeem engaging in a pillow fight with three other dudes which begs the question, why are four grown men in a pillow fight in the first place? Just saying…

It looks like the Strikeforce April 17 event is all but officially announced for CBS. Jake Shields tweeted earlier today that his title defense against Dan Henderson and the rumored Gegard Mousasi vs. King Mo fight are official. MMA Weekly confirmed those two bouts will co-headline the event.

So it looks like Fedor and M-1 is thinking what everyone else is thinking in regards to Alistair Overeem.

Dutch site Mixfight.nl decided to get in touch with Fedor’s management regarding a fight with Overeem;  M-1’s Apy Echteld said that they were interested in fighting Overeem, however they would not fight unless Overeem was drug tested leading up to the fight. In response, Martijn de Jong from Overeem’s team expressed his belief that Fedor deserves a shot at this Strikeforce title, and that they look forward to a potential fight.

Can’t blame M-1 for that, but hopefully it doesn’t become a sticking point in negotiations ala the Mayweather/Pacquiao debacle.

HKL also mentions that a few Dutch sites are reporting that Overeem could face Brett Rogers in an upcoming Strikeforce fight. Scott Coker threw that fight out there as a possibility yesterday too, so perhaps that’s a fight they’re trying to put together. Fedor-Werdum and Overeem-Rogers on the May CBS card to set up their big pay-per-view fight for the end of the year makes a lot of sense. It would at least explain why Fedor’s fight was pushed back a month since Overeem is busy in April.

Image via Sherdog. Tip via BE.

“It’s true that I haven’t defended it for 2 years. Actually, i had something scheduled for 2009. but then I got injured. The real truth is that there weren’t any real opponents for me to fight at the beginning of Strikeforce. Everything was new and there was no one to fight. They didn’t complain and I competed in Dream and K-1 in the meantime. Then when real fighters came, I got injured in 2009. I cut myself, and had a serious bacterial infection…I will definitely fight Fedor this year. There’s no doubt about it, unless he says no. I don’t believe he will, but I’m a little worried about his managers. I’m sure he wants to fight, but I’m not sure people behind him do too…Besides Fedor, there’s Brett Rogers. Big guy that doesn’t worry me that much. Strong, but talks to much. I will fight him soon as well. Then there’s Fabricio Werdum, and I definitely want to kill him. He’s a loudmouth, but I think he’s first in line for Fedor, so that fight will wait a bit. Finally there’s Andre Arlovski. A very good fighter I will also fight eventually…I wouldn’t say UFC has the toughest competition. I think Strikeforce is getting stronger, theres me, Rogers, Fedor, Werdum, Arlovski… I’m not sure, I’d even say that the Strikeforce HW division is stronger then UFC’s right now. So no, I’m not thinking of going there…I think I’m currently in the top 5. There’s Fedor, and that big guy from the UFC, Brock Lesnar. Not sure about the rest, id say Dos Santos is up there. He really impressed me.”

—Alistair Overeem in an interview with Index.hr, translated via Sherdog.net & BE, reiterating his intentions to fight Strikeforce’s top heavyweights

It’s no secret fans and writers are getting frustrated with Alistair Overeem not fighting for Strikeforce in the US, especially when he continues to take pointless fights overseas. I gave him the benefit of the doubt last year when he said he would compete for Strikeforce in early 2010. But now that that time has come, we hear Alistair is being booked for K-1, DREAM and Golden Glory fights and won’t fight for Strikeforce until later this year. It’s getting old and very difficult to take anything he says seriously. If Overeem’s priorities are overseas, fine, but he needs to relinquish the title and quit talking about fighting here until he’s actually ready to follow through it. Overeem vs. Fedor, Rogers, Werdum and Arlovski are all fights I’d like to see, but at this point, I won’t believe them until I see them.

On a semi-related note, Fedor Emelianenko would still like to fight Brock Lesnar…just as soon as he remembers who he is.

For anyone holding out hope (Strikeforce perhaps) that Alistair Overeem would make it to the states in April to finally defend his Strikeforce title or at least fight I’ve got bad news for you. Alistair’s lined up to take on some dude named Sasa Milanovic, who’s not even in Sherdog’s Fight Finder, on April 24 at Glory 12 in Sarajevo. Strikeforce’s CBS card doesn’t have a date yet, but it’s heavily rumored for April 17 or April 24.

By the way, if April 24 is the date Strikeforce and CBS go with, it’s perhaps going to be the busiest day of mixed martial arts in the history of the sport. WEC 48 is already scheduled for pay-per-view that night and DREAM just announced they’re heading to South Korea for an event that day as well.

The UFC has released a preview fight for Spike’s upcoming ‘Best of PRIDE’ series which premieres this Friday night at 10PM ET/9PM CT. Guess we shouldn’t be surprised the fight they picked just so happens to be one of UFC’s biggest stars, Chuck Liddell, knocking out Strikeforce’s heavyweight champion, Alistair Overem, who by the looked like a freakin’ stick back in 2003. Wow, I forgot how skinny he used to be.

Alistair Overeem reiterated his desire to face Fedor Emelianenko at the Dynamite!! 2009 post-fight press conference. As we recently learned, Overeem has another K-1 fight coming up in March which all but rules him out for an appearance on CBS for Strikeforce in April. He says he’ll be ready in May or June though and wants Fedor then.

“In March I have other obligations with K-1. So I think April is a little bit too close to do such an important fight. So March, K-1 and then May-June, Fedor. That’s the plan.”

Problem is unless Strikeforce and CBS push their second network show back a month or two, Fedor will be fighting in April, so he won’t be ready to get back in the cage in May or June just because Overeem finally found time to fit a trip to the US into his busy schedule. They need to fight, let’s just hope Overeem makes time for it at some point in 2010.

FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009 took place earlier this morning in Saitama, Japan. Fight videos above with short recap and results below.

FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009 takes place on New Year’s Eve at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The event will be broadcast live in the US on HDNet at 3AM ET late Wednesday night.

More pre-fight interviews on DREAM’s YouTube Channel.

Alistair Overeem attributes his superhuman body transformation to a steady diet of horse meat. K-1 fighter Zabit Samedov, however, alleges not only Overeem, but the entire Golden Glory team uses steroids regularly.

Almost all Dutch fighters juice. For example, in Golden Glory it’s almost a part of the club’s policy. They shoot up and fight like it’s nothing. Because of that when they get to the ring they start raging. Think about it yourself, how could Bard Hari change his physical complexion so much in two years?

Karaev trained in Holland and said that Zimmerman shoots up in front of everyone and only after that starts training. Look at what an elephant Zimmerman had become in just two years. But most of these fighters pass all medical tests for steroids.

How? They consume extremely high level new pharmaceutical drugs and go through a very expensive three months cycle. So they can get huge.

Like other steroid allegations we’ve seen recently in combat sports, such as the Penn-GSP and Mayweather-Pacquiao stories, Samedov doesn’t actually offer any sort of proof to back up his claims, just hearsay. Plus, Head Kick Legend points out various reasons why Samedov isn’t the most trustworthy source to begin with.

Does that mean it’s false? Not necessarily, but until actual evidence is presented that proves Overeem or any of the other Golden Glory fighters are juicing, you can’t definitively say it’s true either.