Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-04-11, pretty good fight between Gabriel Gonzaga and Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic: it gets three stars (UFC Fight of the Night).The black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Gabriel Gonzaga entered this fight with a professional mma record of 16-9-0 (100% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.23 heavyweight in the world having lost his last two fights, against Stipe Miocic (=Gonzaga vs Miocic) and Matt Mitrione (=Gonzaga vs Mitrione).
His opponent, the 40-year-old black belt in tae-kwon-do and former K-1 and Pride FC champion Mirko Filipovic (five years older than Gonzaga), has an official record of 30-11-2 (90% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.27 in the same weight class. He suffered three consecutive defeats in the Ufc between 2010 and 2011 (the last one against Roy Nelson, Nelson vs Filipovic) and then he fought for other mma promotions collecting three victories and one loss, against Alexey Oleinik (=Cro Cop vs Oleinik), while he beat Satoshi Ishii in his last bout (=Filipovic vs Ishii 2). In their first bout ‘Napao’ Gonzaga beat Filipovic by ko in the first round (April 21, 2007); this second bout is the main event of “UFC Fight Night 64: Gonzaga vs Cro Cop 2”. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Event: UFC Fight Night 64: Gonzaga vs Cro Cop 2
Date: 2015-04-11
Where: Krakow Arena, Krakow, Poland
Division: heavyweight (265 lbs, 120 kg)
UFC Fight Night 64 fight card (main and best fights):
Gabriel Gonzaga vs Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ Filipovic 2
Jan Blachowicz vs Jimi Manuwa
Joanne Calderwood vs Maryna Moroz
Seth Baczynski vs Leon Edwards
Gonzaga’s previous fight: Gabriel Gonzaga vs Matt Mitrione
Filipovic’s previous fight: Mirko Filipovic vs Satoshi Ishii 2
Gonzaga’s next fight: Gabriel Gonzaga vs Konstantin Erokhin
Filipovic’s next fight: Mirko Filipovic vs Hyun Man Myung
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Video:
We are sorry, but since we have been contacted by “UFC – Zuffa”, we post only video highlights of the fight (as soon as we find it). If you have seen the full fight video you can rate it. THANKS!
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube)
to mirko
wtf thats a great fight
Crocop with 40yo is still a monster!
The commentator said they didn’t touch gloves in the first fight. He needs to watch it again.
Yeah. Both fighters shows a lot of respect to each other
I really like Cro Cop but I think Gonzaga was better than him….so why did the Brazilian lose? fixed Zuffa fight
Gonzaga didn’t have the cardio, and he was getting clipped.
Thats why he lost.
fixed grudge match? dont think so
caught him with a sneaky, heavy elbow on the feet and the fight was turned round. see the state of gonzagas face? go and tell him it was a fix!