Josh Barnett said on this week's edition of The MMA Hour that the Grand Prix had undoubtedly lost something in his eyes now that Overeem is gone from the field.
"I can't speak for anybody else, but I know that I wanted to face him in the finals," Barnett told Ariel Helwani on Thursday's edition of the show.
"From a fighter perspective, it stinks. You'd like to have the opportunity to fight the guy, plus he was the champ. Seeing the champion just get let go is kind of a jarring reminder, I guess, that you're not really all that important."
Barnett has to get by Kharitonov on Saturday, but he'll also be keeping a close eye on the other semifinal match between alternate replacement Daniel Cormier and Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva. Barnett said he was picking Cormier to win that fight despite Silva's considerable size advantage.
"The thing about 'Bigfoot,' he's a big guy and he's agile for a big guy, but he's not that agile and he's not that athletic. In fact, being a big guy is probably his greatest asset."
"You could almost say that I'm sure he's had his issues growing up with a thing like gigantism, and all the difficulty that's come from that. But gigantism is what actually allows him to be a decent fighter, because he doesn't do anything particularly awesome, but he's just massive. But all of his fights come down to him getting the takedown. Those are the ones he wins, and against Cormier I don't think that's going to happen."
source:mmafighting.com
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