If you've got 82 minutes to spare, check out this HDNet special on Alistair Overeem's post-Pride exploits in Japan.
The "Countdown to UFC 141" show gave a good summary of his Pride era, which ended with the low-point of Overeem's career, a three-fight losing streak to Little Nog, Ricardo Arona, and Shogun Rua (for the second time). After that it kinda glossed over everything but his Strikeforce bouts (and completely ignored the shitty Werdum fight), since that's all Zuffa has the rights for. This HDNet show covers all his work under the Dream, Dynamite, and K-1 banners, which is basically everything else except a couple for Ultimate Glory in Holland.
After the Shogun loss, Overeem moved up to heavyweight full-time, and has since lost only once in MMA and twice in K-1, compiling a combined record of 20-3-1 in about four years. His MMA competitors during this period were mostly scrubs, with Werdum and Cro-Cop being his best opponents. But his K-1 opponents were the very best in the world, and The Reem beat almost all of them, and this despite having only 4 pro kickboxing fights prior to answering the challenge from 77-fight veteran Badr Hari in 2008. Hari evened the score a year later, and a close and controversial decision loss to Remy Bojansky were Alistair's only fails with the big gloves on.
In particular, check out the Teixeira and Fujita fights for two of the most brutal knee KO's you'll ever see. After the jump is The Reem's last (and rather embarrassing) MMA loss to Sergei Kharitonov in September 2007, one month before he won the Strikeforce title from Paul "The Angry Beaver" Buentello. Overeem had TKO'd Kharitonov in Pride the year before, but Sergei got even this time by making Alistair literally run away and then plank on the ropes. And so we see that The Reem is indeed a killer striker, but he's not unbeatable.
Source: http://www.fightlinker.com/a-brief-history-of-the-reem
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