Strikeforce champ wants fight with Werdum, not Fedor

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem has stated that he would like to fight Fabricio Werdum and not Fedor Emelianenko.

Overeem watched Werdum beat Emelianenko at the Strikeforce event at the HP Pavilion on Saturday.

“It’s about what the people want to see, what the organization wants and what I want,” said Overeem to Sherdog.

“That all pointed to Fedor, but he declined to fight me last month in the May 15 show and he’d rather fight Werdum. Now he lost to him. It’s changed everything. I wanted the winner of the fight tonight and that’s Werdum, so Werdum is next.”

“Fedor’s a little bit out of the picture,” said Overeem. “He has one more fight on his (Strikeforce) contract and I don’t know against who he’ll fight. He might retire after that anyway. He might retire now. He’s the X-factor.”