Yesterday, I woke up from the most peaceful nap in my entire life to find out that Alistair Overeem has tested positive for elevated testosterone levels. It’s easily the most crushing MMA news of 2012. For years, people have been accusing Ubereem of using PEDs, but he always tested negative, until yesterday. If true, not only will his fight with Junior Dos Santos be cancelled, it might mean the end of a UFC career that just started for the Dutch kickboxer. I’m never taking a mid-day nap again. For all I know, the next time I do fall asleep on my keyboard, on the other end of the slumber exists a zombie apocalypse and Alistair Overeem is already infected with the virus. I’d awake to an undead reality that’s worse than any nightmare humans have ever experienced outside of fiction novels. Listening to this phone call with Keith Kizer breaking down Overeem’s situation is difficult. I still wish this wasn’t real.
