Mir vs Cro Cop

Mir vs Cro Cop On paper this fight doesn't look close. Why do I get the feeling that Mir is a shell of himself since Lesnar beat him? What do you all think?

Agree Tru, do not want Mir he looks like half the fighter he was 4 years ago, but Crocop has a very weak chin, leaning "left foot cemetery"

Are you guys at all concerned about Cro Cop's reported eye injury?? I would think that if it stays on the ground Mir has definite advantage. Also, I wonder about the conditioning factor as Cro Cop was a late fill-in. That being said Mir is definitely hit or miss.

Mir just scares me but I just see him eventually getting Cro Cop to the ground and then it is over. Mir's ground game is 10 levels above Cro Cop's. Maybe a straddle. Mir to win, Cro Cop by KO.

I agree that these two guys are both shells of thier best days. Hard to believe that Mir is close to -240 (Pinny) and Cro Cop is +215. According to Sherdog, Cro Cop has only 2 losses by submission in his career and its really only one because his loss to dos Santos is listed as submission (Punch). That's a TKO in my books. Cro Cop has great takedown defense which will make it difficult for Mir to get this fight to the ground. I watched an interview with Cro Cop a few days ago and he just didn't look right, didn't have that fire in his eye. I know he had suffered the eye poke in training. I just don't see Cro Cop catching Mir with one of those devestating high head kicks or a KO left hand. Eventually I think Mir gets this to the mat and then its all over. Perhaps he catches Cro Cop like he did Cheick Kongo sleeping or expecting and defending a takedown and gets it to the mat that way with his own left hand. In the end, my bet is on Mir, just not at -240. Likely will be just a watcher for this scrap.

I read that Cro Cop took this fight on short notice.

One of my spots has Mir up to 275. Hard to lay that kind of number with a guy that may not show up.

Best bets on this card are Ryan Bader and Evan Dunham.