UFC 119 Mir win by knee punch
Former heavyweight champion Frank Mir made a largely forgettable fight memorable with one swift strike.
Mir knocked out 2006 Pride Fighting Championships open weight grand prix winner Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic with a third-round knee in the UFC 119 “Mir vs. Cro Cop” headliner on Saturday at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Filipovic fell prey with just 58 seconds remaining in the match.
“It looked kind of ugly to be honest,” Mir said, “but I guess it’s better to pull of an ugly win than an ugly loss.”
The two men spent much of their encounter trading sporadic punches and neutralizing one another in the clinch along the cage. The crowd showered them with disapproval, their matchup hampered by lack of aggression. Then, in the final minute, Mir caught Cro Cop leaning in with a left hand and pulled his head into the fight-ending knee strike. A pair of follow-up punches finished off the Croatian on the ground, as referee Herb Dean moved in on his behalf.
The defeat snapped a two-fight winning streak for Filipovic, whose participation in the main event was put in jeopardy by an eye injury suffered during training. Once one of the world’s most feared heavyweights, the 36-year-old now stands at a mediocre 4-4 inside the UFC.
“My strategy was to take him down, but his takedown defense is good,” said Mir, who never got Filipovic to the ground. “I was trying to do well. Mirko’s dangerous.”
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2 comments:
that fight... it shouldn't have gone that way. Mirko was too shy on this one. If he doesn't get more aggressive he'd be better off as a politician again
mirko is going through a bad time, he needs to get a diferent team, they are managing him wrong. it's sad to see him like that.
Go cro cop!
PS: do you know how to contact him by mail or something like that? i'd like to write him a few word's.
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