Reported by Mike Chiappetta of nbcsports.com

Travis Lutter won the opportunity of a lifetime when he bested seven other middleweights to win The Ultimate Fighter 4, giving him an opportunity to shoot to the front of the pack and challenge Anderson Silva for the UFC middleweight championship. It seemed like a Rocky Balboa-type story, but real life doesn’t always get its ha

By Sam Caplan
Special to CBS SportsLine.com
   
I have a word of advice for newer fans of mixed martial arts who were a little put off by Mirko Cro Cop’s UFC debut this past weekend:
  
 
Relax.

To steal a line from Star Wars, Mirko is more machine than man.

Yes, Cro Cop looked about as excited to b

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

mmaweekly reporting

Title Match & Main Event Fighters

-Anderson Silva: $71,000 (3rd UFC fight; defeated Travis Lutter)

-Travis Lutter: $18,000 (5th UFC fight; lost to Anderson Silva)

Main Card Fighters

-Mirko Cro Cop: $350,000 flat fee (1st UFC fight; defeated Eddie Sanchez)

-Quinton Jackson: $170,000 (1st UFC fight; defeated Marvin Eastman)

-Eddie Sanchez: $30,000 flat fee (2nd UFC fight; lost to Mirko Cro Cop)

-Marvin Eastman: $30,

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

Cro Cop, Jackson win in UFC debuts Saturday night in UFC 67: All or Nothing

coourtesy of canada.com

February 4, 2007 - 9:27 pm By: NEIL DAVIDSON

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

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