Alistair Overeem appeared on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani yesterday. He was there mainly to talk about the announcement that he would fight Rico Verhoeven in his first fight since returning to the sport of kickboxing.
During the conversation with Helwani, talk veered into the realm of pro wrestling. When the former UFC, PRIDE and Strikeforce fighter was asked his opinion on that form of entertainment he gave an ignorant and offensive answer that framed anyone and anything belonging to the LGBTQIA2S+ community as inherently bad.
Here’s exactly what he said (ht MMA Fighting):
“The thing is with that whole wrestling thing, I watched it when I was 8, 9, 10 years old.