Mirko Cro Cop vs. Junior Dos Santos Possible for UFC 103

hope its true…not holding breath though.

here.

I think Mirko will handily out-strike him en-route to a stoppage. One head kick from Gonzaga and people act like Mirko’s chin is equal to that of Jonathan Goulet’s. The man’s been in there with Wandy (x2), Vovchanchyn, Mark Hunt, and Aleks…not to mention his K1 experience.

Sure, everyone agrees it’s not the same Mirko from the Pride days, but Dos Santos has one KO over a BJJ black belt and a TKO that wasn’t all that devastating over another submission guy, and now everyone’s predicting that he’s going to KO Cro Cop?

I don’t think I can keep up w/ the Cro Cop soap opera…. so he didn’t sign w/ DREAM and is still going to fight in the UFC?

According to MMAWeekly.com’s sources, Cro Cop has dropped out of an announced fight with Siala “Mighty Mo” Siliga at Dream 10 on July 20.
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Though it’s conceivable that Cro Cop could make both fights, it appears he has chosen to remain inside the Octagon.

-mmaweekly

JDS by KILL to make CC MIA.

Zuffa is killing me. They could bank on some easier fights for CC in Europe or Asia, but they want to test him and actually listen to him? Give me a break.

CC doesn’t look good. Santos might actually kill him.

Iole’s Comments:
- “Filipovic informed UFC president Dana White that he had signed a three-fight contract with the Japan-based DREAM.”
- “Cro Cop is absolutely, 100 percent going to fight in DREAM. His quotes were an attempt to save face.”
- “He plans to run for political office again, … ,doesn’t want a story in the public that he went back on his word. That, of course, is exactly what he did.”
- “Bank on the fact that he will never fight in the UFC again.”
Sergio Non:
- “Filipovic told UFC officials that he has signed a three-fight deal with the Japanese organization Dream, … , The news was later confirmed to me in an e-mail from Mike Kogan, who runs the U.S. operation of Dream’s parent company, Fighting and Entertainment Group.”
Josh Gross:
- "Less than a week after apparently snubbing the UFC for Japanese mixed martial arts promoter Dream, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic has agreed to fight Siala “Mighty Mo” Siliga on July 20 in Saitama."

So if Mirko just signed a contract with the UFC, all of the above – which was stated as definitive truth – turned out to be rubbish. Signing with the UFC means you havn’t signed with Dream and you are not set to fight anyone. Judging by Mirko’s comments he was just considering his options.

The only way you go from complete certainty to completely false – in my opinion – is if you can’t research and report a situation properly. The derivitives of these reports in blogs ranging from fightopinion to mmajunkie slammed Mirko over this situation and damaged his reputation. Dana White and Mike Kogan aren’t decent sources on a situation like this because they are biased officials (something I said at the time), and it turns out now that they were just blasting and bragging. We really need some editing standards in this form of reporting, or at least some accountability for reporting junk and damaging a fighters standing.

What if Crocop actually wins?

They give him winner of Mir/Lesnar maybe, presumeably Lesnar, who he knocks the F out.

Then due to his disdain for how Dana handled the recent situation he promptly leaves the UFC, fights and loses to Fedor to unify the Heavyweight belts undisputedly. Even if under contract I don’t think Crocop gives a shit. He can’t be tied up in court like Randy.

I don’t believe it either, but c’mon play along.

Also have to point out this is the second time (fitch) a Fertita has had to come in and undermine Dana’s authority due to Dana’s emotional decision making.