CroCop To Face Ralek Gracie In Grappling Match at DREAM.4
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CroCop To Face Ralek Gracie In Grappling Match at DREAM.4
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On a slow news day, leave it up to the Japanese to give us gold. In an exclusive story, our good friend Caleb Newby of Nokaut.com is reporting one of the oddest news bits in a long while:
Mirko Cro Cop will face Ralek Gracie, a black belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu, in a special rules grappling match on June 15’s DREAM 4 card in Japan.
Originally slated to face Jerome LeBanner in an MMA-rules fight at DREAM.4, a minor leg injury supposedly pushed the bout back to DREAM.5 on July 20. There is no update on the injury and the exact status of the originally scheduled fight was not addressed. Newby’s report states the LeBanner fight is postponed but does not give a definite date for the fight. Gracie has not fought since July ‘07 against Katsuyori Shibata, last seen as the straight man on the Mayhem Miller Show at DREAM.3.
The match will be fought with ADCC rules for two five-minute rounds but without the points system. This seems to be the only concession given to Cro Cop against the much more technical Gracie. The match must end with a submission or else it will be called a draw.
Cro Cop agreeing to a grappling match with a Gracie sounds like the punchline to some MMA nerd’s poorly-conceived joke. The Croatian heavyweight is notorious for a ground game that is generously called serviceable and Ralek Gracie is typical of his lineage on the mat. This is the equivalent of Michael Jordan playing baseball, Sean Sherk standing up with BJ Penn and me attempting a Dragonforce song on my stepson’s copy of Guitar Hero III. This whole concept is so weird, so utterly Japanese freakshow, it’s almost impossible to come up with a prediction. I’ll go with the +145000 line and pick Cro Cop by donkey punch in the 2nd.
Well, this should be interesting
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The only POSSIBLE reason I think he would agree to this is if he believes Le Banner is less then 2 months after DREAM.4 still. That way he doesn't get injured or concust before he goes in but seriously CroCop, what the hell?
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