Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović: For the love of God, get new shorts!

After I was finally shot up with gallium this afternoon, Fred and I locked ourselves in the bedroom to watch a Pride DVD --Shockwave 2005. Fred fell asleep pretty quickly but I was up and down, hurting very, very badly and incredibly hungry (high dose steroids again!). I don't know why the pain is up and I pray it eases sometime soon.

Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović and Samoan Mark Hunt had an interesting match. Cro Cop issued some authoritative head kicks -- that he is so quick as a heavyweight is remarkable; he doesn't telegraph his kicks, either --but Hunt merely shrugged off these blows that would knock most fighters unconscious. Hunt won by split decision, which was the right call, as he was more aggressive and inflicted more damage. (Another split decision was definitely *wrong* -- allowing Wanderlei Silva to keep his belt over Ricardo Arona.)

Anyway, what inspired me to write this short, stupid post? Mirko Cro Cop's fighting shorts. If it is a matter of money, let me be the first to contribute. If it is a matter of superstition, a few sessions of hypnotherapy will clear that right up. While it is true that he works for the secret police, it is unnerving that his shorts seem to bear testimony somehow! They are old, they are tight, they are weird. And since this is a man determined to toss his legs up in the air, please, dear God, let's get him some decent shorts. There are some things best left to the imagination, and Cro Cop's package is one of them.

This has apparently been an editorial about Mirko Filipović and his fighting togs.

I have a personal calling to elevate the level of discourse in the blogosphere, one earth-shattering post at a time.

Here are the 12 fights we watched -- I won't reveal the results:

1.1 Charles Bennett vs Ken Kaneko
1.2 Yuki Kondo vs Kazuhiro Nakamura
1.3 Paulo Cesar Silva vs James Thompson
1.4 Sanae Kikuta vs Makoto Takimoto
1.5 Aleksander Emelianenko vs Pawel Nastula
1.6 Fedor Emelianenko vs Zuluzinho
1.7 Welterweight Tournament Final: Murilo Bustamante vs Dan Henderson
1.8 Lightweight Tournament Final: Takanori Gomi vs Hayato Sakurai
1.9 Ikuhisa Minowa vs Kazushi Sakuraba
1.10 Mirko Filipović vs Mark Hunt
1.11 PRIDE Middleweight Championship: Ricardo Arona vs Wanderlei Silva
1.12 Naoya Ogawa vs Hidehiko Yoshida