Cro Cop Blogs About Future: K-1 Opponents, Surgery

By: Chad Edward Posted On: March 11, 2008 at 6:42pm

In his cage hiatus back to familiar fight turf in Japan, “Cro Cop” Mirko Filipovic (22-6-2) aims to follow Fedor Emelianenko‘s (27-1) latest career path of exploiting kickboxers debuting in MMA.

“There’s a possibility of facing some good fighters from K-1 under MMA rules [in DREAM],” Cro Cop posted Tuesday on his blog at http://www.mma-id.com/CROCOP.

Cro Cop meets Japanese tomato can Tatsuya Mizuno (3-2) at DREAM.1 this weekend.

Filipovic also revealed, ” I’ve been having troubles with my left elbow. It’s nothing too serious but I’m scheduled for a surgery later this month.”

The fighter expects to return to the gym a couple of days after surgery.