Conan,

Josh Barnett couldn’t hold Randy Couture’s jock. Neither could Aleksander (Fedor’s brother). Fedor, on the other hand, is for real. Truth be told there are tibetan monks or old kung fu masters living in the mountains that would kick the crap out of all of these fighters, but nobody knows their names.

CroCop got his ass kicked just like poopie got his ass kicked – plain and simple.

so now we are saying that Crocop should fight one more time and then if he wins get a title shot, come on guys – we all complain that hughes and franklin were getting their shots so quickly, Randy got it out of retirement, Tito got it written into his contract – and on and on – this guy has never held a belt anywhere and he deserves a title shot – come on.

He is 1 – 1 in the UFC, this loss should him down the ranks and he should have to fight either poopie or Werdum – someone who lost. Then if he wins that one, start his road back to top.[/quote]

this is for the qoutes above this one, he aint complaining that he got his ass kicked im pretty sure he fukin knows that. But as for the other guys you mentioned, that dont have a record that comes close to cro cops. they havnt fought anybody good. there is no way that they will let him start from the bottom. he would just run through those pansies just like he did eddie sanchez. Gonzaga was a real match for cro cop.

conan

Good point , knowone but HD saw that Tim’s arm was broken (not even Tim himself).

I feel that a fighter should be allowed to pursue the opponent unless they are knocked out or submitted. I feel that if they allow elbows do not stop the fight, if they are going to stop the fight then do not allow elbows.

Punches and knees end more fights than elbows and when a fighter has blood in his eyes to the point where he can’t see the fight should be stopped to avoid serious injury. I haven’t seen many fighters getting pissed due to stoppage when they had blood in their eyes and couldn’t see shit. Personaly I think elbows make the fight more exciting ,But each to their own.

You can’t really say that standing them up would benefit CC, especially after he ate that many elbows. He would have been better off wrapping up Gonzaga and holding him down until Herb stood them up so he could recover. He said he had blurry vision which is pretty evident as he dropped his hands for a side kick and got cracked in the head. I was really impressed with GG catching that kick from CC and taking him down. That shit had to hurt but he stayed composed and kept on working.

Cro Cop could see perfectly well. Go to UFC.com and look at the fight pics. You can plainly see GG was look directly at CC midsection (ala GSP Hughes)and he never looked up at his head. That is why CC whinced and lowered his hands to gaurd against the body kick. It was just a perfectly executed kick (don’t look where you’re kicking , it moves the opponents defence away from the target area).

There’s no way they’d let him have another title shot that easily. 4 fights is quite a few in terms of his career though, could well be enough to earn him a title shot against whoever is champ, but not unless he wins them all. I read an article where he basically said he’d fight the last 4 then see where that left him. I reckon if he could get a title shot somewhere in those four fights, even on the fourth then that would be something that would keep him in the game. He’ll really have to come back very strong to get a shot though, the fans will have to be hungry for him to get it in order for the UFC as it’s being run at present to give him one.

I agree though, standing the fight up was ridiculous, as it happened it worked out better for Gonzaga but who would have expected that? Even Gonzaga probably didn’t expect to outstrike Mirko standing up, confident or not. I don’t think one loss is such a big deal in MMA, the shot that did it was one in a million. It’s only because of all the hype that has made it seem so catastrophic, in Gonzaga’s own words ‘Everybody lose’ and Mirko’s record is still very good. Of course there is the exception of 1 loss Fedor, but he’s the exception that proves the rule.

Personally although I love Couture, I want to see Gonzaga become champ and then a title fight between him and Arlovski then a champ on champ match between Fedor and Arlovski with no titles involved. Fedor would eat him alive I expect but that would be good because it would give more momentum to the challenger who could hopefully be Cro Cop.

I heard Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira has been signed by UFC as well, he’s something of a beast in the heavyweight division, his record is even better than Mirko’s so there could well be some interesting fights there, I believe he even submitted Mirko earlier in both their careers.