I don't think much of Cro-Cop's boxing record. If anyone can name some known boxers he defeated, that would help.
During his amateur boxing career Cro Cop fought:
- WBO world HW champion Sirakhei Liakhovich
- world silver medailist and Pan American champion Cuban Alexis Rubalcaba.
- amateur world and european boxing champion and olympic medailist Russian Alexei Lezin who defeated Vitali Klitchko in 1995 to win world amateur boxing title.
- world amateur boxing champion and WBA EBU european pro boxing champion Sinan Samil Sam from Turkey
- olympic, world and european medailist Paolo Vidoz from Italy
*let's not forget old man Cro Cop beat Jarell Miller in K-1 while hardly throwing any kicks. Miller is a legitimate HW pro boxer.
56 amateur boxing matches, 48 wins and 31 knockouts and 3x national champion of Croatia.
I'd say that's a fairly decent and high level amateur career on the European circuit.
Source: Cro Cop interview 8th January 2017,
Kao dječak bio sam živahan, a već kada sam imao 10-11 godina, zamolio sam tatu da mi napravi utege. Prve je napravio od nekih pružnih šina, a s 12 godina ja sam već naveliko radio zgibove i druge vježbe s vlastitom težinom. U to vrijeme volio sam i trčati, a nastupio sam i u atletskim utrkama
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Google translate:
Pause Mirko used very useful. He devoted himself to amateur boxing, where he amassed 56 appearances and 48 wins.
Already in 1997 I was state champion in the heavyweight. In those years I have gained crucial experience and always tell the guys who inquire about my career that I've done the hardest fights for free. I boxed then the world runner-up Cubans Rubalcaba, with world and European champion Russians Lézin, with subsequent international amateur and professional European champion Turk Samil, the winner of the Olympic bronze Paolo Vidoz, with subsequent world professional champion Ljahovičem ... All these entries in the ring, even experienced defeat, we were the springboard for everything that will later make