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Cro Cop is good to go for this Saturday’s UFC 119 Main Cro Event

Posted by Vegas Martin in UFC News on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

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Former Pride FC superstar Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic is all set and ready to go against former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir in the main event of UFC 119 this coming Saturday, September 25, UFC officially announced today.

Cro Cop suffered a minor eye injury during the last round of his final sparring session and speculations spread that he might be pulled out from the fight, but later confirmed by UFC President Dana White that he is all set and ready after an ophthalmologist gave him the go signal to fight Mir.

The UFC 119 Fight card also features Antonio Rogerio Nogueira against Ryan Bader, Chris Lytle against former UFC welterweight champ Matt Serra, former UFC lightweight champ Sean Sherk against Evan Dunham and Melvin Guillard against Jeremy Stephens