"The Reem": Alistair Overeem Documentary - Episode 7 and 8
by Nick Thomas on Oct 11, 2010 9:39 PM EDT
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Alistair Overeem enters the K-1 tournament in Seoul Korea. As the main event, he faces Ben Edwards and a win will place him in the final K1 Heavyweight tournament December 11th.
Two episodes are joined together for the fans to have the best experience. The episodes will be released seperately on The Reem website.
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just a quick question for anyone who knows
how popular is k1 in korea and japan in relation to american sports popularity in the US?
is it comparable to basketballs popularity? or hockey’s? or is it less than that?
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I'm from S. Korea
It’s not as popular as 2-3 years ago since Hong Man Choi who is the biggest draw in Korea declined sharply.
I’d still say it’s pretty popular considering the fact that majority of Koreans refer to fight as K-1. Some would even call MMA as K-1 lolol
They’re still hardcore fans and followers in Korea.
You have to beat the legend, in order to become the LEGEND
-Melvin Manhoef (after his destruction of Sakuraba)
by chopstickthugz on Oct 11, 2010 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
True. I forgot to address each country. In Japan it’s definitely more popular.
by memitim on Oct 11, 2010 10:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Whats the popularity for watching TaeKwonDo like in Korea?
Is there much cross over for the fans of TKD and K-1?
Food goes in here
Chopstick could probably answer this better since I only spent a few months several times there. I’m not from there. But, I got the sense that TKD is similar to the popularity of say something like swimming here. There is always a steady following but when big events take place, like championships or Olympics, it takes on a whole other level. Same thing with Judo in Japan. You can create huge stars in the country at the right event. But, there is also a tremendous pride that comes with TKD given it is part of Korean culture, which has a certain sacredness since it was stifled for so long so many times.. And it is used in military training, similar in a way to Russian Sambo, which means just about every male goes thru training at one time or another. But, like I said, I would defer to chopstick’s take.
I can honestly say about 95 percent of Koreans have trained TKD at some point in their lives
And many koreans know TKD doesnt translate well in real fight or K-1. Although they acknowledge the fact that TKD does have some flashy kicks
Also many of them dont enjoy TKD competitions,cuz the rules are odd and it’s boring. Just a quick touch on opponent’s body gets the point, but it’s hard to tell since the judges have to make the calls based sorely on their eyes.
Well this is about to change since the new rules require every player to wear something like fencing players do. Once it touches you, it lights up.
I remember this Korean TKD practioner turned K-1 fighter named Park, Yong-Su got KTFOed cuz he kept his hands low. He was too accoustomed to change his TKD stance.
*There’s no low kicks in TKD neither, oh yeah i almost forgot to add. Koreans don’t really watch TKD games unless it’s olympics. The boxing has been struggling for long long time.
I’d say UFC and K-1 are the most popular combat sports in Korea. Yoshihiro Akiyama’ Dong Hyun “Stun Gun” Kim, Fedor, Mirko Crocop, and BJ Penn are the most popular fighters in Korea.
Pride FC started this whole wave of love for the fighting so former Pride FC fighters are still popular. I hope it helped :]
You have to beat the legend, in order to become the LEGEND
-Melvin Manhoef (after his destruction of Sakuraba)
by chopstickthugz on Oct 12, 2010 12:19 AM EDT up reply actions
Very interesting
And how big are Korean stars? Example Hong Man Choi, was he such a star there because he was both Korean and a freak of nature?
Food goes in here
Koreans have a strong national pride
so they’ll root any korean fighters.
For HMC, he used to be the korean sumo [ssi-reum] champ which isnt popular. But look at the frinkin’ guy, he’s a giant so everyone kept their eyes on him until they found out he sucks.
I’d say Akiyama is by far the most popular fighter before it was Denis Kang who isn’t that popular anymore. Akiyama sang in front of millions of crowds at the arena and was in many entertainment show. Made a lot of money from TV commericals as well
Most importantly there was a documentry on him about how Korean Judo community which is basically consists of 1 famous university since all the judges and officials are from there. So they shunned him when he badly wanted to represent Korea as his country so he left to Japan and became a Japanese citizen. I just want to add that Yoon Dong Sik was treated the same way cuz he wasnt from this particular university
so people sort of sympathized him and the fact that he’s quite good at fighting.
*I’d say Yoon Dong Sik is gaining popularity as well. Dong Hyun Kim is on the process to be more well known. Koreans like BJ cuz he’s part Korean and Ben Henderson cuz he’s half korean [although WEC is almost unknown until recently with Korean Zombie and such]
You have to beat the legend, in order to become the LEGEND
-Melvin Manhoef (after his destruction of Sakuraba)
by chopstickthugz on Oct 12, 2010 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL
“OVEREEM, I LOVE YOU, OVEREEM, WOW, FANTASTIC BODY.”
That guy was awesome
by chunkyass on Oct 11, 2010 10:04 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
damn reem spun that chick like a helicopter
suprised she was still standing after lol
You must defeat me to stand a chance.
Gotta' love the asian fans
Such passion…“OVAHRREM AH LOVE YOU!!!!”
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by MrTechnique420 on Oct 11, 2010 10:25 PM EDT reply actions
yeah . . . I think they’re better than most fighter video blogs. I think they’re just as good as the UFC Prime Time series.
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VEe is ANIMated!
by VeeisAnimated on Oct 11, 2010 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
The first song here is Wolf Drawn by Emancipator
one of my favorites.
"How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"
I love the mix of songs. The soundtracks doesn’t interfere with the visuals or the story.
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VEe is ANIMated!
by VeeisAnimated on Oct 12, 2010 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions
cmon
both the content (pretty far from the ufc promo clichés) and the prod are much better quality imo. or was I fooled by the b&w filter?
I would go as far to say their definitely better than the Prime Time series. I understand the Prime Time budget exceeds $1 million. I’m curious about what they’re spending on these.
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VEe is ANIMated!
by VeeisAnimated on Oct 12, 2010 8:40 AM EDT up reply actions
I've become addicted to these episodes
If you go to youtube and check out ‘reemdocumentary’ they also have a 2 part ‘career of Alistair Overeem’ series that is very awesome to see…I didn’t get into MMA until late 08 and didn’t get into watching Overeem until the lead up to his fight with Fujita…so for me it was very enlightening.
CPG
Wow that is all kinds of epic
Love the Reem
Forever indebted to CroCop's left leg for getting me into MMA
by Well Read Idiot on Oct 11, 2010 11:08 PM EDT reply actions
Alistar!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, how good are these? They put that together in two weeks and it looked fantastic. This is the best VLOG on the internet following any fighter….period.
I'm from Canada, and they think I'm slow eh!
I wonder how these videos would look for a fight that he lost.
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by VeeisAnimated on Oct 12, 2010 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions
I like these episodes
It’s well done and keeps you watching it. Wish other fighters did something similar.
She must be tough
I would have fallen over throwing up…
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -Mae West
Great Video...These always make me wonder...
if he came to the ufc would they allow him to keep doing these and if so how would they top them
I’m not resting until I’m officially Anderson Silva status.- Jon "Bones" Jones
…doing what? K1 or the “documentary”?
I can’t see how you’d be able to stop him producing this ongoing documentary series; it is no different from the so called fighter vlogs. However, Overeem’s videos are a lot better produced than the status quo FlipCam videos. The camera work, editing and choice of music is spot on. They definitely know what they are doing.
Wanderlei is the only other MMA fighter I can think of who’s videos come close in terms of quality.
by higgledy-piggledy on Oct 12, 2010 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions
UFC should take note.
It is not a bad idea to have MMA fighters compete in other combat sports or organizations. While I love the UFC, it is pretty cool to see ’Reem do both K-1 and MMA.
Now we have to wait for Strikeforce to get their HW division together for some fights.
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VEe is ANIMated!
reems back muscles are an absolute joke
such a bad ass
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Whats wrong with his ass?
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by StevenGiles on Oct 12, 2010 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Love these things
Great looks at the fighters, but especially Ubereem – one of my favs
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