Despite Short Notice, Anthony Perosh Ready for Biggest Fight of His Career Against “Cro Cop” at UFC 110
Fighting on just two days notice, two-time UFC fighter Anthony Perosh tells UFC.com that he’s ready to return to the Octagon on Saturday at UFC 110 in his native Australia and face the toughest test of his career in Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic:
“I actually said ‘no’ originally. I look up to Cro Cop and he’s a fellow Croatian. My parents are Croatian and I’ve actually been training the other Croatians appearing on this UFC 110 card. I then went and watched yesterday’s (Thursday) press conference and listened to the comment Dana White made about how many fighters actually turn down opportunities. That just made me realise what a big chance this was. How could I turn down the opportunity to fight on the main card at UFC 110 against one of the best guys in the world? Not only that, the fight takes place on the UFC’s first ever show in Australia. I quickly called Joe Silva back and said, ‘yeah – I’ll do it’.
“My last seven fights have taken place at light heavyweight. I’ve actually been cutting a bit of weight recently, as I thought there was the chance I may step in for Elvis to fight Chris Haseman.. I’ll probably walk into the ring at around 220-pounds. I’m comfortable at this weight and not worried about my shape or fitness. I’m ready to fight now.
“He’s definitely the biggest name I’ve ever fought…It’s no secret that I’m going to try and take him down, ground-and-pound him and then choke him out. I believe I have the ground skills to do this.”
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Dang! i hope he know to circle right to neturlize the left head kick. This would put him into the spot light for sure he pulls away with the W.
Circling to the right walks you right into you’re opponents left side, but I know what you’re getting at.
Hopefully this is not a snooze fest with Cro Cop stuck on his back defending, but somehow I doubt it. Anything less than a quick first round knock out or ref stoppage by Cro Cop will be deemed as a lack luster performance, I’d say.
A lamb led to its slaughter.
not to sure about that.. I mean i know nothing about the guy but the game plan to beat cro cop is out there and he seams to know not to stand and bang with the guy. Lets see what is gappleing is like and maybe, just maybe he might pull away with the win. I mean its not like he is stepping in short notice to fight Lesnar or anything.
get his head knocked out and collect few months of mortage payments nothing wrong with that..
probably a purse increase for taking the fight also, or one would hope
Cro-crop gets hit in the face and he’s going to be bloodied due to the laceration over his eye he suffered yesterday while training. This could turn out a ref stoppage, fight over due to cut. Quite possible if it goes to ground and pound with Cro-cop on his back.
It’s a bloody shame too. Rothwell and Mirko would have been a standing slugfest. Now we quite possibly have to endure 3 rounds of Mirko on his back get pounded on.
To me this has opening round KTFO for CroCop written all over it…