Comments on: Impact Report: Cro Cop’s “sabbatical” a win/win

By: sandro82

sandro82 — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:42:48 +0000

we, will all see,
i believe in Mirko, and still think he is one of the best.
i trully think if he is 100% focused on the fight i dont think anyone can beat.
i wish him the best in japan and rapid come back to show them what he know in ufc.
about pride fighers being bad, i dont think so, it just the octagon totally different and much bigger.

why are only two guys doing good from pride( henderson, and jacson) because they fought before in the octagon.

the rest are learning.

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By: Fightlinker » Blog Archive » Mirko CroCop leaves the UFC

Fightlinker » Blog Archive » Mirko CroCop leaves the UFC — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:03:31 +0000

[...] course, other people are constructing elaborate fantasies where Dana is sending Mirko abroad to hunt down and defeat Fedor, which will magically repair the [...]

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By: Jye

Jye — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:33:43 +0000

I don’t think Fedor was ducking Cro Cop either. He is the more well-rounded fighter and he doesn’t strike me as the type of fighter that ducks fights, although he definitely has some bad management at the moment

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By: dice

dice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:02:46 +0000

Not bitter at all GKH, I just am tired of reading posts of people who act like I am the newb when their the ones making laughable comments.

“My Gomi comments were just conjecture and guessing. I think that was pretty obvious, no?”

Um, yeah thats why I wrote “You guess a lot.” after you posted those Gomi comments. My point had nothing to due with whether or not you were guessing, like you said that was obvious; it had to due with how awful of a guess it was.

“What the UFC might have offered him is also not in the least correlated with what WVR is supposedly paying him.”

Yeah I know, never said it did. I was just laughing at how you said that gomi was just figuring that he could stay in Japan for less money and have a longer career or go for more money in the UFC. And then he signs for way more money in Japan than your UFC “guess”.

“Fedor, it is my opinion he was ducking, and I’m not the only one who felt this way. That make you feel better, that I qualify it with “opinion”? PRIDE was trying to book that fight since 2003 and while Fedor managed to stay very active, every time DSE tried to book it, Fedor claimed injury.”

I guess we will just agree to disagree. Peace.

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By: Grape Knee High

Grape Knee High — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:54:44 +0000

Geez dice, bitter much? You take this stuff way too seriously.

My Gomi comments were just conjecture and guessing. I think that was pretty obvious, no? What the UFC might have offered him is also not in the least correlated with what WVR is supposedly paying him.

Re: Fedor, it is my opinion he was ducking, and I’m not the only one who felt this way. That make you feel better, that I qualify it with “opinion”? PRIDE was trying to book that fight since 2003 and while Fedor managed to stay very active, every time DSE tried to book it, Fedor claimed injury. You can believe whatever you want about Fedor, no skin off my back.

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By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:45:41 +0000

“MMA is a crazy place, but that’s what makes it the best in my eyes. You can’t predict what will happen next.”

No kidding. The MMA newscycle is an insane thing to watch.

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By: Donk

Donk — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:42:21 +0000

Well after Rampage’s title dreams were smashed in pride, a few years later he has managed to become the top dog in America. Time heals all. Cop showed in 2006 that he has what it takes to be the best. A few years down the road who knows what he’ll do. But i’m sure that just like fans look at Rampage as being a great entertaining fighter, and not the guy who couldn’t quite cut it in pride, in years time we will look on Cro-Cop in much the same way as being great entertaining fighter who inspired us all.

MMA is a crazy place, but that’s what makes it the best in my eyes. You can’t predict what will happen next.

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By: dice

dice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:36:38 +0000

# # 18 Grape Knee High Says:
February 13th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

“dice, you started watching MMA in, what, 2006, 2007? Your comments seem to indicate this.

Plenty of people were of the opinion from 2003-2005 that Fedor came up with phantom “injuries” to avoid fighting Cro Cop. Of course, CC didn’t help his case by getting KO’ed by Randleman, so it’s not entirely Fedor’s fault.

Old fans will know what I’m talking about; newer fans won’t because all they have are downloaded fights and Fight Finder.”

So you start out claiming that I just started watching MMA 2006, 07? Thats it. I know my history and the only “people” I remember claiming that Fedor was ducking Cro Cop were speculating fanboys on sherdog. So I will ask you again, do you have any credible source that states Fedor was ducking Cro cop? and if so provide a link, otherwise you just repeating rumors you heard. And there not even good rumors because the circumstantial evidence doesn’t support them (fedor had surgery on his hand after the Zulu fight and posted Xray pics online, so I am not buying the argument that it was a fake injury or he was overstating it just to avoid cro cop).

Glad to see you backtrack a little and claim that Cro Cop didn’t help his case after losing to Randleman. But that was his SECOND chance to win his way to a fight with Fedor.

You act like you know what your talking about but thats not what I have noticed.
http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/01/28/5-oz-exclusive-ufc-deal-with-takanori-gomi-falls-through/

“..What would the UFC pay Gomi? I’ll go out on a limb and say they might go 35k/35k at most.”

Then you go on to say

“So I would guess Gomi is probably just figuring out for himself, whether it is better to continue to fight in Japan for cheaper and possibly have a longer term career and post-career opportunities, or fight in the UFC for slightly more money…”

3 days later he signs a contract with a japanese org for roughly $190,000 a fight. You had no idea what you were talking about, you were just throwing numbers around and guessing.

So forgive me if I am not taking just your word on “fedor was ducking Cro Cop”. Since you have history of just making stuff up.

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By: Bdavis

Bdavis — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:18:49 +0000

Grape Knee High, you never cease to make me laugh! The stuff you post is funny as hell and I couldn’t agree with you more. Also agree with Evan. I like Fedor and I like Cro Cop. It was a great fight the first time around. Hopefully they will do it again.

Fedore does need to fight quality competition. It’s hurting him. CC needs to rebound and win some fights. Period.

P.S. I thought Fedor definitly looked “concerned” in his fight with CC.

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By: bubbafat

bubbafat — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:14:33 +0000

Keep slammin Cro Cop guy’s. It just show’s how ignorant some people can be. Chuck has two bad performances and he’s still the man. What about Wandy? Look at Couture’s record. He got a title shot at LHW after two consecutive losses at heavyweight, and people were talkin’ the same crap about him. My point is CroCop ain’t washed up, he isn’t a joke, it wasn’t hype, and everyone who says otherwise is just a s@#t talker. Have some respect for the guys who bleed for your entertainment

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