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Mirko Cro Cop Disappointed With His UFC 103 Performance Against Junior Dos Santos

Cro Cop upset

After a disappointing performance made by Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic against Junior Dos Santos at UFC 103, the Croatian fighter seems like he’s just about ready to call it quits.  In a UFC 103 post-fight interview, he mentions the fact that he was not the “younger, more hungry, more aggressive” fighter compared to Dos Santos.  Is Cro Cop done for good or will he give it another shot in the UFC heavyweight division?

Here’s a snip from Mirko Cro Cop himself:

“Maybe the ones who have said that I’m done are right. Obviously, I can’t break my mental block in the Octagon. Besides, I’ve been training like a spartan for 20 years now — my body is worn out. The years caught up to me, I’ve been worn out…. [Junior dos Santos] won that fight and would have won it by decision. Simply put, he is younger, more hungry, more aggressive. He wanted to win a lot more…. The mat was slippery like glass. I almost fell down trying to do the left high kick. But I’m not looking for an alibi. This was not the performance the public would pay for. I don’t feel the hunger anymore. I started playing it safe, I’m not ready to take risks. I would like to thank everybody that supported me and stood by me and everyone who helped me to prepare for this fight. I’ve been living a military life for 20 years now. Getting up at 6 a.m. and having physically challenging task up to 8 p.m. I want a normal life. I’m entering a cage and thinking about fishing in Privlaka. You can’t win that way. Maybe I should’ve quit after I won the open weight grand prix…Dos Santos cut my eye lid. Blood and sweat gave me a narrow field of vision. I stood like a blind man, I’m in a cage. At one point at the end of the fight I thought the referee was my opponent. Later it turned out that I cut the inside wall of my eyelid. In the locker room I was given four sutures.

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