In a pre-UFC 146 interview with MMAFighting reporter Ariel Helwani, Dana White didn't quite have an answer for what will happen when Daniel Cormier is ready to return from hand surgery.

White acknowledged that Cormier - who is less than a week removed from defeating Josh Barnett to win the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix - has one fight remaining on his Strikeforce contract before he can make his UFC debut

"He's still got to fight one more fight over in Strikeforce," White said.

Of course, given that the UFC's parent company, Zuffa, also owns Strikeforce, bringing Cormier over the UFC without another fight in Strikeforce is easy enough. In fact, given that the Cormier and Barnett are the only heavyweights left on Strikeforce's roster, bringing him over to the UFC immediately makes the most sense. It was easy enough with Nick Diaz when he was brought in for a planned fight with Georges St-Pierre, and it was simple enough to bring the rest of the Strikeforce heavyweight division into the UFC, including Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva and Shane del Rosario, both of whom will be fighting Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

At the same time, though, Zuffa is still in business with Strikeforce's broadcast partner, Showtime, and it's easy to see where the network would want to get at least one more fight out of the former Olympic wrestler before he heads to the greener pastures of the UFC.

With that being the case, White has a simple solution available to him: Alistair Overeem.

Overeem, after all, was the last man to hold the Strikeforce Heavyweight title. He was also the man whose place Cormier took in the Heavyweight Grand Prix after Overeem was cut over a dispute with Team Golden Glory. And, after Overeem was pulled out of the main event for UFC 146 because of a failed drug test, he's also a man whom White wants nothing to do with.

"I'm out of the Alistair Overeem thing," White said when Helwani asked him about Overeem. "Alistair Overeem lied to me. He lied right to my face, and I don't want to deal with it."

The answer, then, is simple: when Overeem becomes eligible for a license again in December, send him to Strikeforce to fight Cormier. Strikeforce gets a high-profile heavyweight bout, Overeem has his next fight, and Cormier has an opportunity to prove that he is truly worthy of a heavyweight title opportunity in the UFC. And after that, if White doesn't want to do business with Overeem, he doesn't have to.