Fabricio Werdum verbally assaulted Strikeforce HW champion Alistair Overeem because he's unable to do it physically.  Overeem has been out of the Strikeforce picture since winning the belt in November of 2007, although he has competed overseas four times since then. Werdum was scheduled to face Overeem for the Strikeforce title, but Overeem withdrew from the match, stating that the hand injury he sustained in a bar fight was not fully healed, and Werdum had to settle for a match with the unranked Mike Kyle.  Around the same tick of the timeline, Fedor Emelianenko was signed to the promotion, his omnipotent status obviously overshadowing Werdum. Werdum expressed his unadulterated discontent with Overeem in a recent interview with MMAWeekly.  He pulled out the steroid card in the form of a metaphoric ode to the Gummi Bears by claiming that Overeem's hesitation revolved around the "Gummi Berry juice" that gives him "super powers", a notion long speculated by fans due to the extremely lax drug testing policies outside of the U.S. along with Overeem's ability to pack on mountains of muscle and significantly fluctuate in weight.

“I cannot be 100-percent right about the reason he is taking so long to solve his issues and come to fight, but it seems either that the gummy berry juice he is taking to give him super powers is (causing) him to avoid fighting here in America or he is afraid of having no arms to fight after facing me one more time.”

 This is the second steroid accusation sailed through the MMA media from a Strikeforce fighter this week, as Gegard Mousasi blatantly accused Paulo Filho of using the juice in this interview.  Mayhem Miller, Jake Shields, and Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza continue to publicly blast each other as they push for interim MW championship consideration.

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