Alistair Mayweather charged with misdemeanor battery

Top UFC heavyweight contender Alistair Overeem has been charged with one count of misdemeanor battery following an incident in a Las Vegas casino soon after his UFC 141 bout this past month.

According to the "Las Vegas Review-Journal," Overeem is slated to appear in court on Feb. 21, and if convicted, he faces a maximum of six months in county jail and a maximum $1,000 fine.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) had been unable to confirm the long-rumored incident in recent weeks.

Local law-enforcement officials told MMAjunkie.com no arrest was made, and Wynn officials declined comment.

However, according to the newspaper's report, Overeem, who defeated Brock Lesnar at UFC 141 in Las Vegas on Dec. 30, was at Wynn Las Vegas a few days later. According to a citation issued at 3 a.m. on Jan. 2, Overeem pushed or shoved a woman in the face, "causing her to stagger back."

Overeem wasn't technically arrested and instead was summoned to court. He's retained famed Las Vegas defense attorney David Chesnoff for the case and maintains his innocence, according to the report.

Overeem (36-11 MMA, 1-0 UFC), a former Strikeforce champion who was released by the organization and quickly signed by its sister promotion, made his official UFC debut at UFC 141 at MGM Grand Garden Arena. By knocking out ex-champ Lesnar (for his 11th straight win), he set up an upcoming heavyweight title fight with current champ Junior Dos Santos, who's healing from a knee injury.

No date has been set for pay-per-view blockbuster, but UFC president Dana White recently mentioned Memorial Day weekend or Fourth of July weekend as possibilities. Both shows are expected to take place in Las Vegas.

If this is true, what do you guys think two-face Dana does?

Here is my post at TT to this article: http://www.lvrj.com/sports/ufc-fighter-overeem-charged-with-battery-138382939.html

Sounds like the bitch is just trying to make a buck off of him. Happens all the time.

If it was alleged he'd struck her it'd be more serious, but she says he pushed her and made her stagger back. Could have been that she tried to kiss him and he went to hold her back and she made herself fall down, for example. He wasn't arrested, she went and called up a lawyer and filed a report to try and eventually parlay it into a civil suit. Shit happens all the time.

I'm not saying that assault on a female is not a serious offense, it very much is, but this sounds like a bullshit case. I'm not necessarily saying Overeem is a saint, but I could see him becoming caught up in something like what I described.

Of course, the facts will hopefully reveal themselves soon, although maybe they will and maybe they won't.

Kid Gavilan wrote:If this is true, what do you guys think two-face Dana does?

If it is true Dana would still allow Overeem to fight most likely. Rampage had that public incident where he endangered a lot of lives driving like madman and Sonnen is a criminal, he lets them fight for the title. Now if Overeem is in jail for 6 months obviously he wouldn't be able to fight on the dates mentioned, maybe have Velasquez vs Mir and the winner fights JDS in July and let Overeem fight later on.

As a side point (and I understand this one may be nothing) but MMA really does have a lot of bad people in it. The honor and respect of traditional martial arts has not (in general) been past on to these guys. MMA fighters have skills but that seems to be it. Obviously there are many exceptions (like Fedor) but most MMA guys just seem like street thugs and I am afraid that will only get worse and worse as time goes on and people start out training "MMA" and not coming over from traditional martial arts where honor and respect tend to be highly valued.

nodogoshi wrote:Here is my post at TT to this article: http://www.lvrj.com/sports/ufc-fighter-overeem-charged-with-battery-138382939.html

Sounds like the bitch is just trying to make a buck off of him. Happens all the time.

If it was alleged he'd struck her it'd be more serious, but she says he pushed her and made her stagger back. Could have been that she tried to kiss him and he went to hold her back and she made herself fall down, for example. He wasn't arrested, she went and called up a lawyer and filed a report to try and eventually parlay it into a civil suit. Shit happens all the time.

I'm not saying that assault on a female is not a serious offense, it very much is, but this sounds like a bullshit case. I'm not necessarily saying Overeem is a saint, but I could see him becoming caught up in something like what I described.

Of course, the facts will hopefully reveal themselves soon, although maybe they will and maybe they won't.

Sounds like a possible scenario.

Kinosis wrote:

Kid Gavilan wrote:If this is true, what do you guys think two-face Dana does?

If it is true Dana would still allow Overeem to fight most likely. Rampage had that public incident where he endangered a lot of lives driving like madman and Sonnen is a criminal, he lets them fight for the title. Now if Overeem is in jail for 6 months obviously he wouldn't be able to fight on the dates mentioned, maybe have Velasquez vs Mir and the winner fights JDS in July and let Overeem fight later on.

As a side point (and I understand this one may be nothing) but MMA really does have a lot of bad people in it. The honor and respect of traditional martial arts has not (in general) been past on to these guys. MMA fighters have skills but that seems to be it. Obviously there are many exceptions (like Fedor) but most MMA guys just seem like street thugs and I am afraid that will only get worse and worse as time goes on and people start out training "MMA" and not coming over from traditional martial arts where honor and respect tend to be highly valued.

So he would release guys for coming over weight or for twitting, but not a "girl beater"?

^lol, I never said he made any sense, just in the past that's how he has done things.

The incident caught on camera:










What actually happened:

rezin wrote:The incident caught on camera:










What actually happened:

Way to rip off someone else's jokes, brah.

Try to poach from another forum next time.

bahaha.. one of greatest thread names..

I would take Reem's side because most of these are just money grubbing bitches trying to grub some money, but I will point you to the LEGENDARY mmalinker thread which became worldwide phenomenon:

http://www.mmalinker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=62603

Notice Exhibit #4.

Also, Reem has a history of starting shit at bars. Remember he "broke his hand" in a bar fight and then afterwards talked about how Fedor ducked him..

nodogoshi wrote:

rezin wrote:The incident caught on camera:










What actually happened:

Way to rip off someone else's jokes, brah.

Try to poach from another forum next time.

They work everytime..

nodogoshi wrote:

Way to rip off someone else's jokes, brah.

Try to poach from another forum next time.

???????? at first but I see what you mean now.
I don't go to TT anymore, I just googled "overeem gif" images and that's what I got.
I guess its a pretty obvious joke

rezin wrote:

nodogoshi wrote:

Way to rip off someone else's jokes, brah.

Try to poach from another forum next time.

???????? at first but I see what you mean now.
I don't go to TT anymore, I just googled "overeem gif" images and that's what I got.
I guess its a pretty obvious joke

Yeah, a pretty obvious joke.

My mistake, I beg your forgiveness.

Also a case of mistaken identity. I for a second thought that you were a poster from that particular troll refuge.

^ No problem, I really should think before posting.

I see the same joke is on sherdog and it's probably on every other mma related forum.
Took me forever to embed as well. I kept clicking the video embed for a gif. I thought it was so clever. lol


As far as identity, just remember: Psyduck avatar = good.

rezin wrote:
What actually happened:

pushing the face so she staggers back??

FUCK.

OFF.