Even more than 15 years later, Mirko Cro Cop’s run under the now-defunct PRIDE FC banner in 2006 stands as one of the all-time great calendar years in MMA history. Cro Cop (38-11-2), who is one of the ...

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and Josh Barnett made it all the way to Pride’s Open Weight Grand Prix Finals. See and hear them talk about the Grand Prix… MMAWeekly TV CHECK OUT THE POST FIGHT VIDEO ...

Fresh off his triumph on New Year’s Eve—winning Rizin FF’s inaugural Openweight Grand Prix—K1 and Pride legend Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic told Croatian TV of his retirement plans following his stirring ...

2. (Tie) Mirko Filipovic vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira | Final Conflict 2003 (Nov. 9, 2003) Nogueira versus “Cro Cop” featured Pride's two greatest heavyweights not named Fedor, and they ended up ...

While he finishes sixth on this list and I personally had him fifth, “Cro Cop” is a more important figure in MMA history than most of those ahead him. He is the first man to come from an elite ...