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UFC Fighter Mirko Crocop Flilpovic Interview

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taken from CC site:
What was your first impression after your UFC debut? Mirko: It was all a bit weird to me. The rules are different too. Some things are allowed,
some are not; but, it was OK.

In Nevada, knees and kicks aren’t allowed to fighters with their knees on the mat. Having fought mostly in Japan, is it difficult to adjust? Mirko: Yeah, I kept in mi

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CroCop UFC Fighter talks about UFC 67

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Took this from the Sherdog forums where it was posted by a user named Saiyan, so all credit goes to him for finding and translating this.

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There is a big article about Mirko in Croatian main sports newspaper SN.

I will just try to translate all what CroCop had to say about his debut in the UFC.

"in the end Sanchez didn’t materiali

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UFC 67 Results

LAS VEGAS (CP) - As expected, Croatian heavyweight Mirko (Cro Cop) Filipovic and light-heavyweight Quinton (Rampage) Jackson opened their UFC accounts with wins Saturday night at

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UFC 67 Betting - All or Nothing Fight Previews

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UFC 67 Betting - All or Nothing Fight Previews
By BetUS Staff

Beer will be flowing and fists will be flying Saturday evening in UFC 67 ‘’All or Nothing'’. The Main Event features Anderson ‘’The Spider'’ Silva (17-4-0) vs. Travis Lutter (12-3-0) in a Middleweight Championship bout.

Silva enters the Octagon as the favorite (-400) but

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Wombat’s UFC 67 Predictions

by mmaringreport.com

Originally, UFC 67 was supposed to feature Georges St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra.  But then, tragically, St. Pierre injured his knee in a freak poutine-related accident, and had to back out.  Nobody was too upset by this, however, since nobody expected Matt Serra to win anyway - not even the matchmakers at the UFC, who were already heavily promoting St. Pierre vs. Matt Hughes 3 as a title fight for April 7th.  You have to wonder what Serra thought of tha

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Ultimate Fighter Eddie Sanchez might die!?

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Eddie Sanchez likes his chances at UFC 67. He might be the only one. though!

by: cron Steve Sievert

The 24 year-old heavyweight moves well for a 230-pounder and can inflict some punishment on his feet, as evidenced by four KO/TKO stops among his eight victories. But the California mixed martial artist has never encountered the likes of the opponent he faces Saturday nigh

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UPDATED LINEUP FOR UFC 67 THIS WEEKEND

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UFC 67 is this weekend, and some would say the company is taking a gamble with this one.  The original concept for the PPV was to have the two winners of Season Four of The Ultimate Fighter cash in their guaranteed title fights on the same night.  However, an injury to Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre forced him to withdraw from his fight with Matt Serra, and Serra wasn’t goi

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