Classic PRIDE Video: Mirko Crocop Filipovic Challenging Fedor Emelianenko

It was a close fight, Fedor won a clear decision but in his own words, it was the biggest challenge for him.
I am sure you can find the vid anywhere, I think I saw it at dailymotion.

 

I loved how Fedor took Cro-cop by suprise & walked him down, he was actually pressurizing Cro-cop, making him make his moves earlier than he would have, he definitely had an effect on the mind of Mirko, everyone feared the stand-up of Cro-cop back then & it took Mirko by complete suprise to see Fedor coming forward not intimidated in the slightest.

Great fight tho.

 

That was such a nice way to challenge someone. But I prefer something like this:

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That was a great build up. I think that will go down in MMA history

 

There was genuine hatred between them two. Rampage is a guy who fears no man. Alot of Silva's reputation was built on his ferocity and fear. Rampage never succumbed to that. Those were some beatings though. The kind that would normally end a guys career. Im still dumbfounded to think all that Rampage went on to achieve in the UFC despite those bad beatings.

 

Yeah Rampage is a genuinely hard bloke. Great chin as well. Took a fair few flush knees to the face from Wanderlei to knock him out. Can't wait for him to KO Rashad Evans.

 

That was great but man in that 2nd fight Quinton got killed. Was so brutal.

 

IMO thats the best fight ever.

 

wow, Just WOW. now that's the definition of "the best fighting the best", "the beast vs the other beast".

1st round, crocop looked like the veteran of the two. he gave fedor little opportunity to explode, and taking advantage of fedor's mistakes. he landed some serious bombs there, i was surprised fedor wasn't bothered. close but clearly crocop round

2nd round, it looked like fedor figured out crocop. dominance. fedor round

3rd round is pretty much a repeat of the 2nd round.

i can't believed i idolized the don frye, the mark coleman, the dan severn, the ken shamrock, the tito ortiz, the maurice smith of the UFC. hell, crocop's defense alone will TKO mark coleman in the very first round.

another thing, does fedor always fight like that. He was like "just another day at the office, whew". he's like "i don't care if my nose is broken, or if my face hurts, i'm gonna do my job. even when the bull**** breaks by the ref in the third round when fedor was starting to "bombs away", he didn't look like he was bothered.

 

It did. CC stuffed every one of Colemans takedown as though they were attempts from a crude amatuer. Not shortly after stuffing another one CC KO'ed him and completely humiliated Coleman.

 

what?!?!?!

 

i just watched the wanderlei-rampage I. wanderlei's monicker "the axe murderer" serves him right. brutal knees!!

i'm gonna watch the second fight

 

i just watched the 2nd fight. and i have one thing to say, "Oh motha ****a"

seeing rampage lying head first unconscious and bleeding badly made me feel frightened.

The AXE MURDERER!!!

PS: i'm just watching but i got intimidated by wanderlei's stare during the referree instruction

 

Watch their fight in PRIDE. They fought about 4 or so years ago.

 

Mirko's sprawl was/is amazing. It didnt take him long to master the art of the sprawl at all.

This is why I dont like watching Wanderlei anymore. He was great and an absolute beast. Now his just a shot fighter who goes in swinging wide looping punches. Not to mention he cant take a shot like he used to.