Mirco filipovic biography death

He is mostly known for his time in Pride Fighting Championships. He is also a former IGF Champion. Cro Cop's signature move was his lightning-quick left high roundhouse kick , once famously described as "right leg, hospital; left leg, cemetery.

Mirko cro cop weight

From 23 December until 11 January he served as a Member of the Croatian Parliament for the 1st electoral district. He was elected as an independent candidate on the list of the Social Democratic Party. On 1 March , he announced his retirement for health reasons, specifically a stroke he suffered. He was raised in a working-class family with his sister, who is three years his senior.

Mirko grew up training in track and field, namely the shorter distance events m, m, and m dashes. After seeing Jean-Claude Van Damme 's performance in the film Bloodsport , he began training in his parents' garage with his father's boxing equipment and weights. His father, who worked as an electrician for a railway company, fashioned his son a crude but effective punching bag filled with sand and cotton, and would bring home track scraps for Mirko to use for weight training.

After writing a request to the commander of his military base to train with the Croatian national kickboxing team, his request was approved. I don't think you will be a special soldier, but I believe you will be a good fighter one day. So you don't have to learn [with the radio telegraphists]. I release you and I want you to train twice a day.

And I want you to make your country and your homeland proud one day. After this, he embarked on a career in professional kickboxing. Before turning pro, he had accumulated an amateur boxing record of 48—8 31 KO's.