Fighters.com reported 31 August that Strikeforce heavyweight champ “Demolition Man” Alistair Overeem (27-10) will headline the MMA portion of the mixed card versus a yet-to-be-named opponent.

Bahadurzada TKO’d Leandro Silva “Batata” Leandro Silva (11-4) at Shooto Brazil 13 in Fortaleza 27 August, his return from a year’s absence after tapping a heel hook in 1:10 Sengoku middleweight champ Jorge Santiago (21-7) at Sengoku in Tokyo in November 2008.

The “Afghan Killa” will fight formidable, if not yet internationally-known Beast of the East middleweight Robert Jocz (11-3). Jocz tapped Bohumil Lungrik (8-8-1) at World Full Contact Associations Gladiator Games in Prague 25 June, and also has a TKO of Bahadurzada’s teammate Staring on his rap sheet.

Staring lasted until 3:59 of the third round versus “Minotoro” Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (15-3) at Jungle Fight 13 in Fortaleza 9 May until tapping in a triangle choke to the recent UFC signee.

Staring will fight Jocz’s teammate Hans Stringer (6-3-1) who comes off a TKo of Yuji Sakuragi (7-13) DEEP 43 Impact in Tokyo 23 August.

Glory 11 is tagged “A Decade of Fights” and will be held at the Passenger Terminal in Amsterdam 17 October. It features the best Dutch MMA and kickboxing talents.

Sources close to the Dutch kickboxer also revealed exclusively to Fighters.com that Overeem is considering a kickboxing matchup versus “Dutch Lumberjack” Peter Aerts (1-1) at FieLDS K-1 World GP Final 16 in Seoul 26 September. Since Fighters.com’s original post, K-1 has confirmed the Overeem versus Aerts matchup.

Overeem was thought to be nursing an persistently infected hand resulting from a bar brawl in Amsterdam last May that kept him from defending his Strikeforce title from “Vai Cavalo” Fabricio Werdum (12-4-1) in San Jose 15 August. The injury was described by Overeem’s manager, Bas Boon, as nearly costing Overeem his hand.

Overeem hasn’t defended his belt since winning it with a submission due to knees of “Headhunter” Paul Buentello (27-9) at Strikeforce in San Jose in 2007, leaving the impression that he is avoiding fighting in the United States.

Evidently Overeem is aware of his Stateside reputation, but follows the maxim that all publicity is good publicty. When Fighters.com confronted our source, the person close to Overeem said, “Alistair says, ‘Let them talk. At least they’re talking about me and it will make my return to the U.S. even bigger.’”

One big talker has been Fighters.com’s fourth-ranked heavyweight “Grim” Brett Rogers (8-0), who called out Overeem to defend his title after Rogers knocked out tenth-ranked “Pitbull” Andrei Arlovski (14-7) in 22 seconds at Strikeforce in St. Lous 6 June.

When Overeem bailed on his title defense versus Werdum, Rogers’s manager, Mike Reilly, told Fighters.com, “Overeem who? Is that a guy who used to fight and ducks a lot of fights now. Does he still fight? I never took that fight seriously. I never thought it was going to happen.”

And, upon hearing about Overeem’s upcoming fight schedule, Reilly told Fighters.com, “Overeem will be hard to hit. The guy really knows how to duck.”

Overeem’s fight at Glory 11 in October rests speculation that Overeem could defend his title versus Werdum on the same card Rogers and Fighters.com Heavyweight Champion “Last Emperor” Fedor Emelianenko (29-1) will fight in November.

Fighters.com’s source close to Overeem said that Strikeforce didn’t want to incur the expense of putting two big heavyweight fights on the same fight card; and, Fighters.com’s Glory 11 source confirmed that Strikeforce is cooperating to find Overeem an opponent in Amsterdam.

Though contacted by Fighters.com, neither Overeem, nor Strikeforce decided to comment.

“We will fight, we will have a rematch for New Year,” “Cro Cop” said, then added, “We have already agreed in principle about it, but it has not been confirmed 100 percent.”

Overeem too has publicly expressed interest in a New Year’s Eve rematch, saying, “I want to finish ‘Cro Cop’ and put his name on my list, especially now because he has been arrogant and big-mouthed.”

The MMA stars in Japan fought to a No Contest at DREAM 6 in Saitama 23 September.

The fight was stopped after Overeem slammed three separate knee strikes into “Cro Cop’s” groin.

Filipovic confided, “The third hit was very hard and it has given me small complications.  I had to undergo a small operation later, but it is that kind of a job.  I urinated a little blood, but that is all a part of the sport.”

Overeem was in control of the one-time top heavyweight until the knee strikes.

But, “Cro Cop” argued, “Overeem started well, but his condition is his disadvantage.  I will not say too much, we will repeat the match.”

Overeem will fight “Big Daddy” Gary Goodridge (23-18-1) at Glory 10 in Arnhem, east of Amsterdam, 9 November.  Fighters.com will cover the fight live.

As first reported by Fighters.com, “Demolition Man” Alistair Overeem (28-11) will follow-up his impressive performance in a No Contest versus “Cro Cop” Mirko Filipovic (23-6-2) 23 September in Saitama, north of Tokyo, in the Glory 10 main event versus “Big Daddy” Gary Goodridge (23-18-1).

“Blitz” Stefan Leko (1-3) will be featured in a Muay Thai rules fight versus a yet-to-be-named opponent.

All together, there’ll be three Muay Thai fights, five fights fought under K-1 rules, a boxing match, and seven MMA fights.

The rest of the MMA card includes:

Hamid Corassani (3-2) v Gregorz Tredowski (8-2-2)
Vincent Latoel (12-11-2) v Omar Samb (2-1)
Dion Staring (14-3) v Markus Halkossaari (0-0)
Matthieu Lawalata (4-12) v “The Terrible” Ivan Mussardo (7-3)
Assan Njie (7-1) v Brian Maulany (9-13-1)
Cesario di Domenico (1-0-1) v Natek Tomajev (0-0)