Watching Cro Cop lose last night was like reading that comic where Doomsday kills Superman. Damn. Last night, a part of me died...so I kicked it under the chair and I think the cleaning lady scooped it up and threw it in the trash. The fight ended so abruptly that everyone in the audience just stared at the replay on that massive 1,000,000 inch HDTV suspended in the middle of the American Airlines Center for some sort of explanation. We thought he was poked in the eye and he needed some time to recover, but the unthinkable happened. Cro Cop gave up. Here is what Dana White had to say after the press conference last night:

“I’m not saying that I’ve ever been at the level of a Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ or any of these guys, but I used to fight. You get to a certain age where you remember what you used to be able to do, and you can see all the openings. You just can’t pull the trigger. I think that’s where he’s at…Junior Dos Santos is a young, hungry, explosive, nasty heavyweight, and Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ went three hard rounds with him. Listen, we all get older. I could see it…It happens to the best of us. It takes nothing away from who he is or what he’s accomplished. We just all get old…I don’t know [about his future]; I’ve got to talk to him. I’m pretty sure that he would say that to me right now, anyway. Mirko and I have always had a pretty good relationship. We’ll see what happens.”

We can only hope that last night was not Cro Cop's final appearance in the octagon. Judging by the hundreds of people who repeatedly yelled 'Left High Kick!' during the fight, dude still have a massive following. [Source]

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+1 # Guest 2009-09-20 07:28

Its very sad to see Cro-Cop, who has so much talent, lose a fight. You look at the history of fights and wins he has had and are just amazed at seeing whats happened in the octagon. Maybe its time for Mirco to think about dropping to Light Heavy Weight. He is already an undersized Heavy Weight so this should be a good step. This would give him a strength advantage. He has fought people that are extremely fast before, i.e. Kevin Randelman. Hopefully Cro-Cop will continue to fight, but maybe just a little lighter.

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+1 # Guest 2009-09-21 04:25

@Tim
His problem is not size, the old Cro Cop would have murdered dos Santos, he still has the physical, but that fire, that edge, combined with a lethal striking skill is long lost.
In the fight against dos Santos, even his defense was poor, he was an average fighter at best, dos Santos kept attacking him, and he just kept absorbing the punches and pushing the brazilian back, over and over again, wtf was that?

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0 # budsmk3r 2009-09-20 10:26

Cro Cop is pretty muhc done. He GAVE UP!!!!

I would like to see him continue in ufc and mma as much as the next guy but he told all of his fans that hes done. he cant continue to keep up with the young talent and competition anymore

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