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(Dis)organized chaos with Cro Cop

By Zach Arnold | May 7, 2008

There are plenty of rumors that Mirko Cro Cop will face Jerome Le Banner or Sergey Kharitonov at a future DREAM event. Well, maybe that won’t happen after all.

Topics: DREAM, Japan, MMA, Media, Zach Arnold | 3 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback | Share This

3 Responses to “(Dis)organized chaos with Cro Cop”

1. sprewell says:

   May 7, 2008 at 3:10 pm

   nice try, but Mirko was quoted as saying the leg injury is nothing serious and he will fight Le Banner at the LWGP Finals card since JLB is taking a fight against Schilt in late June.

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2. Donny says:

   May 7, 2008 at 7:04 pm

   pretty lame attempt bro

   cro cop already cleared all this up

   Reply
3. IceMuncher says:

   May 7, 2008 at 8:17 pm

   Tough crowd.

   Reply

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