mirko cro cop
Mirko Cro Cop — the Pride FC 2006 Open Weight Grand Prix Champion and three-fight UFC veteran — today held a live chat with fans over at MMA-ID.com.

He answered a ton of questions, including his plan to compete twice more under the DREAM banner and return to the Octagon to avenge losses to Gabriel Gonzaga and Cheick Kongo. In addition, the Croatian is set on rematching Fedor Emelianenko on New Year’s Eve — regardless of the promotion.

Cro Cop also shared his “positive” thoughts on the creepy Jean Claude Van Damme, his Indiana Jones complex (he hates snakes), his favorite movie (”HEAT”), as well as dares a chat participant who calls him a “pussy” to “come and say that in front of” him.

Good stuff … check it when you can.

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Comment by jdawg
2008-04-09 21:22:33

WOW!!!!

 
Comment by Jose Bastillo
2008-04-09 21:24:13

Too bad he doesn’t fight as good as he talks these days.

Comment by MMACrossfire
2008-04-10 10:16:08

I have every confidence Cro Cop has his eye on the tiger these days. That nasal surgery seemed to sorta transform him, now that he can breath properly. It’ll be interesting to see how he does. Here’s hoping he’s working on his BJJ. His bottom ground game is his biggest weakness.

Comment by Clayton
2008-04-10 11:17:59

he’s actually got solid defense from the bottom.

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Comment by Josh Robinson
2008-04-10 14:59:37

You talk alot considering you’re not the one fighting.

 
 
Comment by Luppers
2008-04-09 21:31:16

God I hope he is back… and want to see him with that much fire in the UFC.

 
Comment by DirtyML
2008-04-09 21:40:34

StephenQuadros MIRKO! How are you!!! SQ
CROCOP Reply to StephenQuadros: Glad to have you here Stephen

i laughed pretty hard when i saw this

 
Comment by Americana
2008-04-09 21:43:37

Of course he is motivated…he is juicing out of his mind again. I love the testing policies of the Japanese.

Comment by liukangstoupee
2008-04-10 20:30:55

of course you have proof that he juices right? Why don’t you call him out on that to his face?

 
 
Comment by matt
2008-04-09 22:04:35

some1 asked how much he masturbates wtf?

 
Comment by Can't wait
2008-04-09 22:14:04

Crocop’s a badass mofo! His answers seemed completely honest. Can’t wait to see him fight again. It sounds like he’s ready to take on anyone. :D

 
Comment by c-war
2008-04-09 22:29:41

lmao. Great stuff.

Comment by linx
2008-04-10 07:01:02

Mirko is a funny guy, either that or whoever was typing for him was improvising.

 
 
Comment by Emanuel0523
2008-04-09 23:04:30

Come to the UFC and say that! Although i wont say that to his face.

 
Comment by ShatteredDreams
2008-04-09 23:30:13

I love this line:

CROCOP Reply to risk11: Not really
risk11 All hail to Mirko, I am your fan from korea. I heard you trained Taekwondo when you were young. Did it have influence on your kicks?

It’s like… “shot down”.

 
Comment by Scott
2008-04-09 23:52:27

There are some hilarious ones
CROCOP Reply to satyr: This question is way to personal (laugh)
satyr How often do you masturbate and do you keep away from it before your fights?

CROCOP “Reply to ivan cro cop: Ivan … Let me tell you a joke. James Bond came to Mujo from Bosnia and said “”Bond, James Bond”". Mujo’s reply was “”Off, fuck off”" (laugh) you get the message?”
ivan cro cop You cheat on your wife?

 
Comment by d3034
2008-04-10 00:05:23

Kick some ass cro cop!

 
Comment by Ray
2008-04-10 01:53:43

I still believe he is past his prime and will never beat a seasoned UFC vet. The competition in Japan is inferior to America’s, I don’t ever see him doing well over here. Stay in Japan and live out the last remaining fights with those cans!

Comment by liukangstoupee
2008-04-10 20:26:53

So by that, I gather you mean to say guys like Josh Barnett is “inferior”.

 
 
Comment by dia mette
2008-04-10 02:29:54

The best Mirko Ive ever seen was his fight in 2006 against Silva. I know Silva was the smaller fighter but thats not the point. Mirko was at the top of his game he was super aggresive even more than usuall.

He threw left hand bombs within the first 25 seconds of the fight compare that to not throwing a single punch other than a one flicking jab for almost 2 f**king minutes of the gonzaga fight.

His counter striking and footwork were unbelievable in that fight It wouldnt have mattered who was in front of him that night if it wasnt silva he still would have won. Mirko needs to go for broke and swing for the fences and forget the conservative feel out my opponent and let him dictate the pace style that has hurt his reputation.

 
Comment by JoeyVitaminB12
2008-04-10 02:55:12

of all the questions you could ask crocop, why would you ask him about sausages?! (ie: “Leafy meat/cheese-pie or sausages (”cevapi”)?”).

what about the question we all want answered: ‘hey crocop do you juice or what?!’ not one person asked that (of course hes not gonna admit if he did…but it wouldve been nice to see his reaction). although someone did ask if he ever smoked…he said no…sounds good to me!

crocop for prez!

 
Comment by YouTapped
2008-04-10 03:07:20

I really liked this one:

[quote]Will you ever drop weightclass to 205lbs. to fight at light-heavyweight?

Only if I chop off my leg[/quote]

 
Comment by Mamas Boy
2008-04-10 03:43:35

If he starts fighting and winning again, I’ll be more interested.

 
Comment by UFC 85!!!!!!!!!
2008-04-10 05:06:40

I just hope Cro Cop comes back to the UFC so that Maerican fans can watch him fight in person.

 
Comment by "Mr. NC-17"
2008-04-10 06:04:00

Yeah, my motivation would be very high as well if Dream was giving me fighters like Marlon Simms and Noah Thomas as well.

 
Comment by rhys
2008-04-10 06:45:56

Jesus christ theres alot of mirko bashing here.
grow up

 
Comment by ViolentMike
2008-04-10 08:39:05

Can you please stop advertising for your very poor website? I’ve seen you post a link to it everyday for a while now.

And I thought that the WAMMA people didn’t know what they were doing. Wow. Like one person who lives in their parent’s basement’s opinion is going to influence anthing.

You have Rampage ranked ahead of BJ Penn? Chuck Liddell ahead of Urijah Faber? I don’t think I’ve ever seen Chuck on a Top 10 lb for lb list. Plus, Fedor is the only non-Zuffa fighter you have on your “World Rankings”. There is much more than the UFC out there, especially when it comes to fighters at lower weight classes. This is one of the first lb for lb lists I’ve seen that did not include Gilbert Melendez. Do you know who he is? Have you ever seen him fight?

 
Comment by Volatol
2008-04-10 09:16:09

I loved when he said he could run after Charlize Theron until she fell down (laugh)….I was dieing when I read that. It was good to see some humor out of him.

 
Comment by PHIANSOURI
2008-04-10 09:39:14

WTF IS UP WITH THE MASTERBATE QUESTION???

 
Comment by brac
2008-04-10 10:02:06

It’s a shame that he couldn’t get motivated in the UFC.

 
Comment by dtrain
2008-04-10 10:15:55

you suck

 
Comment by john
2008-04-10 11:02:14

I could care less about Cro Cop anymore. Until he fights Sergei Kharitonov or Mark Hunt I dont even want to hear what he has to say. Fighting Mizuno was an absolute Joke…It was almost as bad as some of the guys Kimbo fought, only MKirko has been fighting mma for years now, Kimbo is fresh off the streets.

Comment by Brandon
2008-04-10 17:42:55

There it is – the hate from john. Right on schedule. I’ve begun to see that you hate on him every time there is a crocop update.

Comment by john
2008-04-11 07:11:39

I hate on cro cop because he was once 1 of my favorite fighters and no 1 was happier than I was when he signed with the UFC…since then he has been DISAPOINTING to say the least.

I just think he is broken mentally at this point in his life, and there is nothing I would like to see more then cro cop coming back to the UFC looking like the fighter who terrorized PRIDE. He scarred the Japanease more then Godzilla did back in the day!

I hate because he has looked like crap since winning Pride Absolute Grand Prix….I accept that he is going back to Japan, to try and re group and come back and try to make a run in the UFC…..but fighting chumps like Mizuno is not going to cut it.

I would have rather seen him fight Kimbo then that noodle Mizuno. Personally I cant take him serious until he fights Sergei or man’s up and fights Mark Hunt again, who cased him around the PRIDE ring for 20 minutes and has been dying to fight cro cop again ever since because he wants to knock cro cop out.

Prove yourself against sergie or Hunt (who are both signed to DREAM) and then I will be happy to start singing your praises again.

Brandon: what cro cop debate? The guy has looked like crap since 2006, whats there 2 debate? can you really argue this?

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Comment by Rumbler
2008-04-10 12:47:09

I like this one…

CROCOP Reply to Zrebak: I don’t think about that
Zrebak Hello Mirko, how are you ?

Only pussies know how their doing.

 
Comment by hbdale309
2008-04-10 15:59:18

^^^^^ LMAO

 
Comment by Steven
2008-04-10 17:23:28

Jean Claude Van Damme is very creepy to me. Its also very creepy to me that Van Damme, Putin and the Emelianenko are all so close to each other. I mean Putin is former KGB and even though his term ended he created himself a postion of high chanceler (same thing Hitler did) above the president and with veto rule on all decisions made.

Sorry to go off on an un-MMA related topic I just find it so damn creepy that those 4 are so close.

The chat was hilarious and seemed open and honest, best question or answer was the masturbation question, the response as previously shown was freaking hilarious lol

 
Comment by kAiNOA PilAGO
2008-04-10 19:25:38

wanna see him come back “/

 
Comment by "Mr. NC-17"
2008-04-10 20:52:32

Tuf 8: The Comeback II.

Light Heavyweights:
Houston Alexander
Sean Salmon.. haha…

Heavyweights:
Mirko Cro Cop

sounds good to me thus far.

Help continue the list!

 
Comment by Dustin
2008-04-13 23:48:36

ya he will destroy cheick and gonzaga when he is back, I bet you anything those 2 fights he had wer paid, had to be, im a randy fan but with all the money ufc is making now a days and how its practicly gonna be americas new football? mirko kicked ass his debut gonzaga is a nobody that lost to werdum cheick lost to heath herring the biggst no body in pride!! mirko messed him up so bad that his mom looked at his face for the last time and wish she took that ay after pill, watch how he fights his UFC debut and how he DOSNT do anything his next fights, ohhh also if you notice mirko was getting paid more then randy.. hmm kinda makes you think

 
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