UFC 119 Preview: Mirko Cro Cop Talks Frank Mir and Heavyweight Title Run
by Nick Thomas on Sep 11, 2010 6:19 PM EDT
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"Spent so many years fighting and I'm a PRIDE heavyweight champion. I made many big victories but to take the UFC Heavyweight belt would definitely be the top of my career."
"I believe (Frank Mir) will try to take me down. At least in his mind maybe he thinks he will have an advantage on the ground, but we will see."
"He has an American attitude and approaches the fight with a big mouth and big statements. I think he better keep his mouth shut."
"He should pray to god not to be knocked out. You shouldn't underestimate me at all. I'm going to be ready."
-- Full video interview at ufc.com.
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic (27-7-2) +180
Win Patrick Barry - Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) UFC 115
Win Anthony Perosh - TKO (Doctor Stoppage) UFC 110
Loss Junior dos Santos - Submission (Punch) UFC 103
Win Mostapha Al-Turk - TKO (Punches) UFC 99
Win Hong Man Choi - TKO (Low Kick) K-1 - Dynamite
Frank Mir (13-5) -220
Loss Shane Carwin - KO (Punches) UFC 111
Win Cheick Kongo - Technical Submission (Guillotine Choke) UFC 107
Loss Brock Lesnar - TKO (Punches) UFC 100
Win Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira - TKO (Punches) UFC 92
Win Brock Lesnar - Submission (Kneebar) UFC 81
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Damn you Cro Cop
I want to believe in you, but I don’t think I can handle being let down anymore.
Shut his mouth Mirko...
with a kick to the head.
by Crazynutts on Sep 11, 2010 6:45 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
i would love to see that too
but, the more kicks he throws the more vulnerable he is to get taken down.
Not much would make me happier than seeing crocop kick him into oblivion tho :)
How many times has Frank Mir submitted a guy after 2 minutes of the fight?
Yeah. And who has submitted Cro Cop? Prime Nog and nobody else.
Lets not forget who Frank Mir is. I got Cro Cop by TKO late in the second.
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he submitted to strikes in the jds fight as well. not that it matters, I am counting on him to kill mir in under 3 minutes.
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by exsanguinator on Sep 11, 2010 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions
You act as if what happened to Kongo couldn’t happen to Mirko as well. I love Cro Cop, but he’s not making it very far in this fight.
"Sometimes hype just ain't enough." - Jens Pulver on his win over BJ Penn
by lowellthehammer on Sep 11, 2010 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Kongo wasn't rocked at all in that fight,
it was clearly a slip. Cup Cheick was totally lucid and even threw a leg kick off his back as soon as he landed.
Frank Mir has bad takedowns, a bad gas tank, poor positional grappling, mediocre boxing, and a lack of urgency. He beat Zombie Nog and 1-0 pro wrestler… questionably. Cro Cop has all the talent for near elite takedown defense and very strong defensive grappling. I see Mir trying to muscle him around and eating left hands for it in a dull first round, missing on his takedowns, then getting stalked and fucked up throughout the second. This probably won’t be a pretty fight, but Mirko is a VERY live dog.
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by pdl on Sep 11, 2010 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Good insight
I didn’t know that about the Kongo fight. I think you’re right about the way the fight will go.
Yeah. i suppose mir rose to the top of the division by being terrible at everything. CC’s gonna knock him out cold, seeing how impressive he’s been lately.
by Hendo_One-Shot on Sep 11, 2010 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions
You think it’s questionable that Lesnar tapped out due to a knee bar?
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by PapaBumpants on Sep 12, 2010 9:00 AM EDT up reply actions
I will shit my pants intentionally if Cro Cop wins.
by grein on Sep 11, 2010 7:01 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Sadly, I think your pants are safe
CroCrop won’t be able to push Mir around like Brock and Shane, and is going to end up getting subbed I think.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
by Dave Strummer on Sep 11, 2010 7:02 PM EDT up reply actions
“Oh my god that kick fucking destro…. dude, your face is all red. Are you okay?”
“Auuughhh….”
“What the fuck, stop doing that.”
“Aaaauuggghhh….”
“Oh god his pants are turning brown.”
"You hear people say, 'You're the greatest,' and all this stuff. It's BS. It's fake, it's all fake. You've just got to keep training as hard as you can. The only thing real is the fight, everything else is fake." - BJ Penn
Takedowns are definitely a big threat for Mirko
but I think that Frank Mir is still certain that he’s a high level striker. His knockout of Cheick Kongo and TKO of Minotauro emboldened him into thinking he’s K-1 material, something his loses to Lesnar and Carwin haven’t convinced him of otherwise yet.
Blah blah blah Frank Mir isn’t going to shoot in for any takedowns. Not until Mirko starts lighting him up pretty bad. I think Mirko still has enough gas in the tank to put Frank Mir down.
Mikro's mouth always says the right thing pre-fight...
but his hands and feet never are in on the plan.
This may turn into a fight of who is MORE mentally broken loses.
by Cocytus on Sep 11, 2010 7:03 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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Thats how many guys Mir has submitted after the 2 minute mark in the fight
It was Dan Quinn at 2:15
CPG
by Chris Groves on Sep 11, 2010 7:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Big thing about Mir is that he’s incredibly cocky. He’s always sure that one element that he’s working on is enough to win the fight. For the Carwin fight, it was his size. For the Lesnar fight, it was his stand up. This time, he says he’s working on his wrestling.
Well, it’s pretty simple. If Cro Cop stuffs the takedown, Frank’s questionable chin will probably meet a straight left from Cro Cop, and he’ll have two losses in a row. However, if Frank wins, where is he going to go? When he fought Shane and Lesnar, he got outclassed and destroyed. He’s pretty much stuck when it comes to his place in the HW division.
He’s not stuck anywhere, Frank wins and he goes right back into contention he was hardly outclassed by either guy. Frank is his biggest enemy just look at the Carwin fight, he showed up like he couldn’t be bothered to even be there and paid the price for it. When he is motivated and hungry he is as good a HW as there is in mma hopefully that’s the guy well see finaly retire CC.
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cause what's your Rampage to Rashad Evans/"
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I’m not sold on him being a top heavyweight at all, Frank talked his way into contention. He beat Brock the first fight because of a bull shit stand up, he knocked out a fading Nog who had staph and caught Kongo with a punch early on where Frank barely showed any skill. I’m not saying theres no chance Frank will win but theres also a good chance Cro Cop would too.
LOL @ finding excuses for every Mir win...
you forgot the “His cup helped him beat Sylvia” line…
"In this fight, Anderson showed he was human," Nogueira said. "He showed he could be weak. But he showed he is a fighter and he brings something from his heart. It was beautiful."
by Broke Lesnar on Sep 12, 2010 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions
More often than ANY other fighter
Frank Mir defenders say he was ‘just inmotivated’ whenever he loses…things like ‘when he shows up to win, he destroys people’
It’s such an unqauntifiable aspect, any guy who loses you could say ‘oh he looked unmotivated you could tell’…what the hell ever!
But even accepting the whole ‘he wasn’t motivated’ thing as a legitimate argument, then Frank Mir simply has another bad flaw, his motivation…if he brings any lack of motivation against a Cro Cop who is always eager to prove that he isn’t done, then he’s going to end up in smashville, eating straight lefts and a variety of leg, body and head kicks.
CPG
I wouldn’t say more often than ANY other fighter as long as BJ is out there.
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by FRANKIE on Sep 12, 2010 3:42 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Frank Mir
Apparently he couldn’t get motivated to face an 11-0 Shane Carwin for an interim title to secure an opportunity to get a rematch he was obsessed with getting…
What reason do we have to believe he’s going to get motivated for a Mirko Cro Cop that EVERYONE seems to be writing off. Frank Mir seems to have trouble taking guys seriously even when most recognize them as legit threats…how is he going to treat a guy who has been written off and is taking the fight on short notice?
CPG
I am really hoping so bad that Mirko can pull this fight out. But when I look at this fight in depth I can see this fight going eather way and bolth fighters winning in a whole host of different ways. And thats becasue bolth fighters really have glaring flaws and Holes.
Mirko – looking very slow and old the last few years and just seeming to have lost all motivation he ounce had to fight. Also Mirkos speed, his hands and footwork have really seemed to slow and start to fade. Its amazing how eather age or wear and tare from years of fighting or a combination of bolth have caught up with Mirko. He looks like a shell of the fighter who just stormed threw the pride OWGP and was thought to be lock to be the UFC’s HW champison for years to come when signing with Zuffa. We all know how that went after the Eddie Sanchez fight.
Frank- His #1 enemy the man can’t take damage and just crumbles after the first BIG shot, Call it no heart or what ever you will but ounce the fight starts going a little bad for Frank or ounce the first BIG shot hits thats usally about it. Its likely in about 20 to 30 seconcds Frank will be laying in the fetal position getting pounded on. Franks Horrible Wrestling also could play a BIG factor hear. For someone who has such good Slick Subs for a HW you would think he would atleast be better at getting the fight to the ground.
Thats why I really can’t lean one way or ther other on this fight and its such a pickem coin toss. I see way to many ways bolth can win or loose and I see huge holes in bolth fighters. I think the fighter who wins this fight is the one who has the least weakness in the areas I said above that night.
He's been KO'ed by Power punchers.
It’s not like he’s getting put out by pitter patter shots.
How come no one is questioning Mirkos heart after this?
I mean Mirko AIR TAPPED!!!!
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Not hating on Crocop
but he wasn’t ‘Pride Heavyweight Champ.’ He was Pride Open-Weight champ, in a tournament where he fought three people who didn’t normally fight at that weight (Silva, Yoshida, Minowa) and Josh Barnett.
And he beat Barnett by eye-poke.
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by FRANKIE on Sep 12, 2010 3:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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