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Speaking of Cro Cop, he recently gave what was apparently a very emotional interview regarding his MMA career and UFC 137.

 

"I want to retire as the old Cro Cop. I don't know if I will be able to do it, but I will die trying. Nothing is hard for me. I will die trying...

 

Look at Fedor [Emelianenko]. Fedor was untouchable until one year ago, and today nobody's talking about him. He lost three times in a row. He was a great champion, great fighter, but he lost three times in a row and nobody talks about him. Only the fans who followed him his whole career respect what he did with his career, but that's the name of the game. I don't want it to happen to me...

 

[if I lose I will] say to people, 'I apologize, and I'm sorry I wast[ed] your time.' That's all I can say and that's exactly what I will say. I will disappear from the UFC and I will apologize, first to the headquarters of the UFC, because I was treated like a king, I was paid well, and unfortunately I didn't justify the treatment. I didn't justify the treatment. I don't want [to] live on an old glory. That's why, believe me, I trained really hard for this fight."

 

-Mirko Cro Cop talks to MMAFighting.com about what is motivating him ahead of his UFC 137 bout with Roy Nelson.

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not sure if its been mentioned and cant be arsed to go back through the thread, but UFC Undisputed 3 has a release date of January 27th (subject to change) and if you pre-order you get:

 

Contenders Fighter Pack featuring Nick Diaz, Jason "Mayhem" Miller, Phil Davies and Brian Stann. Step inside with 4 of the most fearsome fighters in mixed martial arts for the first time in UFC Undisputed history.

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UFC's next DVD release coming out November 8th in the US, featuring 170 fights lasting over 50 hours on 20 discs - 2011 Ultimate Fight Collection (featuring fights from July 2010 - June 2011):

 

 

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How immense does that look?! It'll cost you $90, but by God you'd get your monies worth.

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Kenny Florian has confirmed he is moving back to lightweight.

I had a feeling he'd do that. He only lost to Maynard on points, and has been competitive against most of the top lightweight fighters. Now that Penn is gone he does have a chance of climing up the rankings.

 

Not sure if he'll get another title shot right enough.

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Kenny Florian has confirmed he is moving back to lightweight.

I had a feeling he'd do that. He only lost to Maynard on points, and has been competitive against most of the top lightweight fighters. Now that Penn is gone he does have a chance of climing up the rankings.

 

Not sure if he'll get another title shot right enough.

 

Yeah I think 155 is the ideal weight class for Kenny. He looked drained at 145 to me and despite most people thinking he looked great in his debut I honestly thought he got lucky with the judges against Nunes. I had Nunes winning that fight narrowly. Kenny didn't look good in either fight at featherweight to me.

 

At 155, he's a much better fighter I think. He beats pretty much everyone but the top 2 or 3 usually and finishes his opponent more often than not. I do think he's kinda fallen into that Rich Franklin role though, of popular high level gate keeper. Still some interesting fights to be made but I don't see him going on a run to the title shot again anytime soon, if ever.

 

Give him someone like Sotiropoulos, Dunham, maybe Jim Miller next. Any of them would be good fights.

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where can i get that dvd set? is there a blu ray?

 

was wondering the same thing.

 

Its getting released 8th November exclusively at Best Buy in America, then its released everywhere else in the US on 6th December.

 

No word yet on a European release yet but I'd imagine it'd be mid-December/early-January, well thats if they even release it over here.

 

Getting an import would probably be the easiest way of getting it, as KingOfMetal said Axel Music would probably be your best option after the US general release in December.

 

I believe its only a DVD release, Blu-Ray would cost too much (to buy & also to make).

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