Where Overeem met a battered down, 40 year old Peter Aerts in the final, Mirko Cro Cop met Ernesto Hoost. Mirko Cro Cop, unlike any other MMA fighter except Alistair Overeem and Mark Hunt, made the final of the K-1 Grand Prix. It is truly the ultimate test of consistency over one night. You can’t win the K-1 Grand Prix on a lucky punch, but you can get knocked out of it with one.
That means 3 fights for those lucky enough to make the final.
The K-1 Grand Prix was, excepting the PRIDE Grand Prix, the toughest tournament in martial arts, as the final 8 fighters had to complete the tournament in one night. A great many below par fighters have fought in K-1 and even picked up wins (such is the Japanese love of a freak show fight), but none of them has ever done well in a Grand Prix. The term ‘K-1 level striking’ is thrown around a lot in MMA to describe fighters who simply wouldn’t be able to compete there. The first thing to note is that Mirko Cro Cop was not a technical wizard he didn’t have an enormous bag of tricks into which he could reach for the appropriate weapon, but his game was rounded enough and his speed and power carried him through. – The Left Straight / Left High Kick Double Threat Focusing on the technical aspects of his career, rather than the mental or emotional ones, we will consider: Throughout this article we’ll look at some of the technical aspects of Cro Cop’s game which declined so drastically from his incredible performances against Josh Barnett, Mark Coleman and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
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These weren’t men who could only fight Mirko at his own game, as Brock Lesnar met in a series of pure grapplers during his first fights with the UFC, but men who could and would exploit the lack of roundedness in Mirko’s game at any opportunity.
Kazayuki Fujita, Wanderlei Silva, Kazushi Sakuraba, Fujita again, Heath Herring, Igor Vovchanchyn and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. In his first ten bouts, over the course of two years, Cro Cop met some huge names, and not hand picked ones at that. Many detractors are happy to trot out a list of “cans” that Cro Cop fought, but forget to mention in the same breath the even weaker competition that Andre Arlovski, Tim Sylvia and Frank Mir had been fighting over that period.īesides that, you will be hard pressed to find a fighter who received a tougher test in his early career. Furthermore, it was simply the way at that time in MMA. Their fans are quiet and respectful during Mixed Martial Arts bouts, but they love a freak show match every bit as much as U.S. Are there cans on Mirko Cro Cop’s record? Of course.
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