why did cro cop only get knocked out by bad strikers?

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Gabriel Gonzaga - never had great striking and especially in the era he fought cro cop UFC striking was terrible. Cro Cop was k-1 level and pride too had much better strikers technically like cro cop and hunt, yet

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then we have Randleman, a powerhouse amateur wrestler who is even lower than gonzaga on the striking scale. cro cop vs randleman in striking is like einstein vs bill nye in science. Cro cop is so far ahead of him on the feet but

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Even crazier he fought Brenden Shaub! A Brenden Shaub who became famous for being knocked out by Nelson and getting outboxed and knocked out by an old Noguera. Brenden though decent at every aspect of mma was never GOOD at any of them especially striking. But somehow

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meanwhile he beats kickboxer pat barry by submission, fights k-1 champ mark hunt to a split decision loss which many think he won, and knocks out notorious mma striker Wand. Silva. Not to mention winning the k-1 tournament at an older age.

what gives?
 
Bad striking = weird timing/angles that you've never trained for.
 
prolly more worried about the takedown in those fights and his chin was ruined by the time he fought Brandon
 
Randleman was so fast and explosive he could KO anyone with that same shot.

Mirko underestimated Gonzaga

By the time he got KO'ed by Schaub and Gonzaga he already had over 100 fights if you add up his boxing and kickboxing bouts
 
For sure you hunnid percent dont mean big brown my man

theres levels to this, its a beast
 
Bad striking = weird timing/angles that you've never trained for.
This.
prolly more worried about the takedown in those fights and his chin was ruined by the time he fought Brandon
This too.
Randleman was so fast and explosive he could KO anyone with that same shot.

Mirko underestimated Gonzaga

By the time he got KO'ed by Schaub and Gonzaga he already had over 100 fights if you add up his boxing and kickboxing bouts
Also this.
Cause' Cop was overrated ?
And not this.
 
I don't wanna discuss this topic because it brings back bad memories.
 
You have to wary of the takedown against wrestlers like Randleman and BJJ guys like Gonzaga. Makes you more open to bad strikers. As for Schuab, we don't speak about UFC Cro Cop.
 
As another poster already pointed out, Randleman was just quick, explosive, and powerful.

The rest, my guess, steroids.
 
Striking in mma is very different and difficult to adapt. You're gonna get caught eventually and plus old age and worn out body.

The distance, levels, combinations are different and guys can exploit it if they pay attention.


Plus....his k1 wgp win not long ago was not the real k1. Was a shit version and a shell of it's former self
 
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Dude CroCopu's UFC run is very painfull and a forbidden topic!
 
Real reason - same as why Rockhold got KO'd by Bisbing
 
Overly concerned with the TD, which I always thought was a mistake on his part cause he had excellent TD defense even when engaging in striking and then he was great defensively off his back

EDIT: Perhaps coming to the UFC where ground elbows were now allowed, which he had never trained for, might explain his overly-cautious approach when it came to TDD
 
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Didn’t Mir KO him too?

We try not to bring up that fight lest we are forced to remember the unbearably boring "action" that preceded that KO.

The fight was so bad that it was the only KO of the night and Dana refused to give it KOTN.
 
The Gonzanga KO is the perfect example of how anyone can get caught at any time. Who was expecting Gonzanga to throw a f'n head kick on the head kick master?
 
We try not to bring up that fight lest we are forced to remember the unbearably boring "action" that preceded that KO.

The fight was so bad that it was the only KO of the night and Dana refused to give it KOTN.

That fight was so boring crowd didn't even react cause they were put to sleep. Same goes for gonzaga superman punch ko from that dude. Boring asf
 
Cro Cop vs Miocic, make it happen, Croatian on Croatian crime.
 

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