Kiss Off
Posted by Chad Edward on March 11th, 2008DREAM rotated tomato cans Monday for this weekend’s DREAM.1 debut event featuring “Cro Cop” Mirko Filipovic.
“My opponent will be Tatsuya Mizuno,” Cro Cop announced via his blog at http://www.mma-id.com/CROCOP. “Although I announced Yoshihiro Nakao as my first opponent in DREAM, this fight is not going to happen. I’m not familiar with reasons and I won’t be asking for any.”
Mizuno is a 3-2 Japanese judoka who’s only fought in Pancrase. He’s bowed to any competition stiffer than a licorice stick.
Short-notice gives Mizuno little time to prepare for the Croatian kickboxer short of getting fitted for a neck brace, which one hopes was written into his contract gratis.
“The most important thing is that I’m going to fight on Saturday,” Cro Cop assured, unflustered by the change.
There was a time when the most important thing to the feared striker was proving himself against top competition in the sport; but, that has become but a DREAM.
