Can someone tell me what the story was with this fight? A draw? Was it a work? Why didn't Pride release the fight on the DVD for the event with the rest of the matches?
My guess is that it was similar to Rampage vs. Sakuraba. Cro Cop probably had a very large bonus promised in the event of a draw. But that's just a guess based on other dubious tactics employed by the company.
It was so horribly boring, even the patient japanese fans booed the shit out of Takada.
Thanks. I always wondered abou that fight.
I probably wouldn't knock my boss out either.
Tamura did an amazing job of KO'ing Takada in Takada's last fight lol The Mirko and Takada fight was Mirko's first MMA fight and he didn't do anything. If you remember the Mirko that fought Wanderlei at Pride 20 was a much different Mirko than the one who fought him last year.He was very tentative then but knew he would probably get taken down and coudln't get back up
work
Not a work. No work would involve Takada losing face like that. Takada broke his leg either checking or throwing a low kick at Mirko and spent the rest of the fight butt scooting.