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Posted by2 months ago
I'll Drink to That

Mirko Cro Cop knocks out Alberto Del Rio in Pride Fighting Championships

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This was such fucking horrific matchmaking lmfao

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A staple for Pride FC.

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Those early PRIDE Bushido events (which focused more on promoting PRIDE’s Welterweight & Lightweight divisions) were mostly headlined by Cro Cop high kicking some unfortunate mismatched soul into unconsciousness.

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· 2 mo. ago
No Me Llames Gringo

Cro Cop's gimmick at the time was being the "pro wrestler hunter", so... this kind of thing was pretty routine for him.

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Iirc Del Rio pushed for the match for Del Rio reasons.

There should still really be someone who steps in to stop pro wrestlers taking real fights and getting themselves hurt, but Pride didn't just shuffle a deck of cards and decide that the next boss you fight after Igor Vovchanchyn is Masked Cocaine Man.

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· 2 mo. ago
The Ace of /r/squaredcircle

For real, I think ‘Berto had like, a handful of wins at best at that point? And one of them was due to doctor stoppage after the other dude broke his arm.

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I was a big fan of Crop and never knew this match existed. He looks young here mind.

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You can make all the mismatches you want when the fights are fixed.

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· 2 mo. ago
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I'm glad it happened tho

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· 2 mo. ago
Absolutely

Right leg hospital

Left leg cemetery

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If cro cop kicked your liver, you were fucking done

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· 2 mo. ago
A Consensual Venis

Yeah I don't think the mask helped him.

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· 2 mo. ago
Yeah, eat that food!

Helped hold his brains in at the end

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Why was the ref trying to take it off😂

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If I recall Alberto wanted to fight with the mask on and had to be given special permission to do so.

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· 2 mo. ago · edited 2 mo. ago

I’ll never forget the Cro Cop Wanderlei Silva stare down where Cro Cop looks straight into Silva’s soul.

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