"Good evening dear viewers." "The material we are going to see tonight is only the shortened version of 1:30 hour long DVD, which we recorded last year for the Japan market, about the name and character of Mirko CroCop." "Since then it's been over an year since the recording, some things have already changed in the meantime." "However, since our Mirko whooped Bob, and since we are all still euphoric, we couldn't resist not sharing with you the footage, so you all can see how Mirko is a really humble guy." "Or as our people would say:" "Nur offnen wenn der Wagen halt." "(open only when the car has stopped)" "Privlaka is a small village, 251 km East from Zagreb," "Village where Mirko F. was born." " Privlaka is a small village." " with 4000 people, near Vinkovci, 12-13 km air line" "At the entrance to the village, Mirko's jokes, inroad." "A heist..." "Who are you looking for?" "ID please." " Our ID's?" "It looks like everything is OK." "Good afternoon." " Good afternoon how are you?" "We had a heist on the way." " Where?" "Some plumbers with pipes attacked us." " Every time before and after the fight" "I am here at my home, I rest my soul here." "With my crew, my living legends" " We play cards, joke, roast some lamb, it's beautiful." "It's my soul peace." "We can't roast a lamb without teeth." "Don't put this on camera, Ill kick someones ass." " This is house where I was born, I grew up here." "I lived here till 1994, then I moved to Zagreb." "I changed everything around house, the facade, new fence..." " there was a little saw mill, right there where the lamb is going to roast." " nothing important (talking about working at saw mill)" "So there you got your first muscles?" " Yes, but I was a fanatic, after" " all that hard work, I would really kill myself its was really hard, I went to lift some weights." "I made this one myself." "There, you see." "I poured concrete, wait a little for it to harden, put in a bar, and waited a day." " The next day I made the other side." "Here, you see those are the jars from them pickles." "How much does it weight?" "I don't know, about 25-30 kilograms... dont know." "I made this in 5 grade (about 11-12 years old)" " My late father had a piece of a railroad track." "I figured I could lift it, but it became too light then I saw that longer bars are heavier" " and my neighbor Ivan made me few different bars, one 35, one 40, one 45cm." " so I had me a few pieces I lifted." " This is legendary bar, I used to do pull-ups here." "Mladen Pemper" " Police Inspector" "We met back in 1974 in the hospital in Vinkovci, but then we probably didn't know that." "We were born on the same day." "I went on to help him on one of his training then I saw what he was all about." "We had practiced escaping the clinch, we were with out shirts." "My hands were bloody, but Mirkos didn't even get red." "That means that aside from all these hard practices and all, one part of all that he's got in him, that strength and rawness was god given." " Running in the morning by the railroad was obligatory in" " army boots." "On the snow you couldn't" " raise your legs. it was very heavy like that for 5 km." " Then showering and I would go in school." " My punching bag was awning with sawdust inside leaking out." "I use to punch that bag for few days than" "I would rip through it with punches." "I must mention belt maker Chibo from Vinkovci." " He repaired it over 100 times." "It would last for 4-5 days, then rip on the stitches." " Then back again to him, he wouldn't say a word, he would saw it back together and so on." "Every now and then." " Later he didn't want to take money for repairs." "There was a big shed and a garage, Mirko used to practice kicks there a lot." "I took a chalk and drew a man on the wall, like a silouethe." "Then I would kick it for 2 or 3 hours." "It would ring, vibrate, God help you..." " My father used to tell me 100 times at 11 at night to go to bed," " to quit it and I would still go on." " Little by little he would poke out bricks from that wall then I had to repair it." "I beg him not to do that anymore." "Every day I was repairing the same hole." " It isn't problem to poke out the brick, you could do it." " Kick it and return back." "I probably kicked million times on the same" " part, it's normal to break it, anyone else would poke it too." " I worked here in saw mill, when we finished the work he would ask me to wrestle a bit with him" "he was little, maybe 5th-6th grade, when he got stronger he would hold my neck and he wouldn't let go." "I said:" ""You're going to strangle me!", but no way." "Since then I didn't want to wrestle with him anymore." "Who would wrestle with him?" "How long were you fooling around like that?" "I am still fooling around" "FEAR:" " I am afraid of snakes, aggressive girls and loose dogs over 60 kilograms." "VEGETABLES:" " I never tasted that in my life," " cucumber, tomato, especially something sour, green peppers and stuff, not even dead." "Green Lettuce, nothing." " I'd rather die than taste vegetables." " SEX:" " Necessarily evil, I ain't fan of it." "He was a surprise, we were waiting a girl, we had over 100 girl names ready, but he surprised us." "Did you ever pull on his ear?" " Oh yes." " I am still dizzy from that KO I got 20 years ago." " American ninja was in cinemas, we were hyped on that." " Me and my smart ass godfather made wooden swords," " on the side swords were very sharp. we ran into this" " corn field cutting over 300 meters of field," " We were playing and fooling around, then the owner of the corn field" " came, and of course he told everything to my mother." " I don't remember that KO, but I was dizzy for 2 months." " I trained athletics you know, we were on some athletic tournament" " in Pozega I was running on 100m and the rest of the crew can't wait to run off their part," " and I begged the trainer to let me run 400 m." "Everybody was looking" " at me like I was crazy or something." "Why would you run if you don't have to?" " One time on my friends birthday, back then who had the VCR?" "Nobody." " Just at that time came the Blood Sport with Van Damme." "When I saw Van Damme, his looks, moves," "I said, to hell with the athletics, I became completely" " crazy about that sport." "Even though I started lifting weights a couple years before that," " that day was the last athletics training for me." "What if you two meet in the ring." " Who?" "You and Van Damme." " What is the difference between you and Van Damme?" "He is little stronger than me." " Maybe little." " If you could surprise him you would KO him." " That boy trained Karate for some time, now its 15 years already, and ballet, his mother was" " ballet instructor." " 170 high, about 70 kilograms, thats funny to talk about." "What does the movie mean?" " What?" "you watch Batman and he flies I guess?" "Or that Spiderman?" " What are you trying to say?" "Would you beat him up?" " Who?" "Van Damme." " Come on, now... this is serious part now, don't make me laugh." " Van Damme, no way." "If you hit me in face how much kilograms would hit my face?" " Well it depends. right leg is hospital, left is cemetery." " Whole body kicks, left leg on toes and then" " body rotation." "Body rotation gives power to" " the punch ." "The standing leg has to rotate. you need to do it from here." " This kick detaches your head." "How much do you train in a week?" " 5 times a week, two times a day." "I have" " 10 trainings in a week." " This is worst thing ever." "Steel wire and I am barefoot." " When this hit your toes." "That sucks." "Then it goes Pride Or Die." "You fight to death." " Now it will happen a couple times but I will just laugh it off like its nothing." " Fuck the guy without strong neck right?" "What is your woman gonna hang on to?" "What was that?" "I hold my body weight just on my forehead" "I don't like this exercise." "I have to warm up my hands now." "Can you open a beer with your bare hands?" "I can open it with my eye." "Do you cry, maybe during the movie?" "I cried when I was watching Rambo 1" " when they put him in a jail, it wasn't cool," " the man didn't do anything, so that drew a tear to my eye." "The sheriff started it first" "I hate mistreatment." "Peace, Freedom and Democracy for all." "I would like to meet that sheriff which put" " Rambo in jail, he wouldn't be a thug then for a long." " You know what's the definition of pain?" "It's when you're punching on the focusing pad" " with bare fists." "With these small gloves its almost like without them." " It brakes my joints man, I have to bandage it. my finger" " joints are all bloody after it." " Price of my success is very big," " but lot of people doesn't know that." "It's wooden?" " Yes small leather" " cover with wood under." "HANDS TRAINER" "No one can beat him on hands anymore" "My elbows are hurting like hell but I must hold out." " Ultimate fight in light version, without punching." " In the corner is" " one of the best wrestlers in Croatia, strong as a bull." " I'm trying to get him to fight in ultimate fight," " but he said his wife doesn't won't let him." "As you can see here, there is no punching, here only a technique lasts." "The best is the BJJ." "What are they trying to submit each other right?" "Submissions or a choke." "And what is the longest round here?" "Well the two of them worked on it for 20 minutes once." "But that was a light version." "How do you feel?" "How do I look?" "Totally worn out." "This really costs physically and psychically." "You can't do this if you don't like it." "There is no money that can pay this." " He is choking me." "To strengthen the muscles." "To better tolerate if" "I get strangled during the fight." "Pain tolerance." "Did you get any consequences from that?" "Every day someone chokes you?" " Well there's a little bit of blood not going to the brain, but fffor nnow there isss no cccconsequences as I know only consequence is that he is ugly." "Why do you think he has same girlfriend for 6 years." " Look who is talking, he was a phenomenon in Bosnia." "Do you know" " he already start walking when he was 6 months old." " He was so ugly that no one would carry him around." "Now you'll pay for that." "I was joking." "Now I won't let him if he starts tapping" "What?" "what?" "What was it like during the war?" " I was 17 years old in '91, I remember us coming here, us kids, my" "best man and I, that night behind the sand." "The tank column started from one place (irrelevant, pointing to the bridge), anyway that bridge was blown up, and then started the shelling." "Two boys, neighbors and friends died unfortunately." "Houses here by the plants were completely leveled." "When them tanks were rolling they were taking it out on the houses." "Every house got two shells..." "To the ground." "That was the beginning of the December." "They reported from the Vinkovci high school (gymnasium) that the classes are organizing to start." "Some were going to Zagreb, some to Krizevci, I got Varazdin." "That's when Igor Varga and his family took me in." "I spent 6 months over at his place." "Unforgettable, most beautiful in my life." "The first thing I asked for when I came in was is there a kickboxing club here?" "They had either a boxing club or a" "Karate club." "Then I went first to the Karate club in Varazdin, right after the school." "First day..." "I had to see where is it." "What can I do, I didn't like it." "You know, them in the Gi-s, in line, standing, hitting the air with their fists..." "That didnt interest me." "Then I saw a group of 5-6 of them in gloves and pads, fighting." "I asked the coach: "Can I go with them?" and he said:" ""go on, beat it, I don't care"." "The eldest among them, who led the entire group Goran Cervecki, a legend from Varazdin." "That's how I spent my unforgettable 6 months." "Did you fight?" " Hell yeah." "They would beat the crap out of me." "But I didn't complain you know." "It was like that, I was crazy about it." "Soon as the school would be finished, I ran to the gym, and I'd stay there till 9PM.I would get there first." "One old security guard would be letting me in earlier because I used to wait outside for an hour or two." "So I would warm up, do pushups, hit the bag, and then the guys would come, and I would do the practice with them, and then stay afterwards for a shower and then catch the train home." "I would come to the station, and wait for a 1.30-2.00h." "While I was in the military, my father passed away." "My mom and I were left penniless." "From what money we had left, we made our father a tomb memorial and were really left with no money." "I remember it as if it was today, giving a request for a Police Academy, I wanted to go to Zagreb to train, to get a chance to fight, that was my ultimate dream." "K1 and stuff." "And I submitted the request for the academy," "I go through the entry exams, and I have worked it all out ok, but I was under the entry line." "Mom crying, my heart wanted to break really." "I had so much will and desire to do something, but you cant go head through the wall right?" "I was playing cards with some guys in Vinkovci in a friends house, and I came in, and Drago is coming, He was looking all over the town for me." "He goes:" ""Right now in the car!" "Urgent, Urgent", I didn't know what's up," "I came home, my mom was crying, holding a paper." "A telegram came in from the police academy that I WAS admitted." "Some link worked, I have tried from several sides for people to push me in." "To this day, I don't know who enrolled me in." "Whoever that be, I am thankful for it." "We are at the premises of the Anti terrorist unit Lucko." "I would like to say that I feel great here." "I spend most of my free time here, and I mostly sleep here." " You have an apartment in the other part of the town, but you're still here." "Why?" "I don't know, I rest here and I like it here." "There are always guys here to play cards and joke around." "I feel nice here." " You into politics?" "Yes I am." "Here I have 2-3 political magazines here, Budo International." "How do you put the two jobs together?" "Many people ask me that here, especially the Japanese cant believe that the paycheck here is measly 500 $." "The money wasn't that got me here in the first place though." "It was my childhood dream to be in Special Forces, and the best fighter in the world." "I was lucky enough in life to see both of my dreams come true." "I was persistent enough to fulfill both of my dreams." "This is the Falon assault weapon." "Its for combat in open spaces... better range." "This here is a Heckler  Koch with a silencer, normally a much smaller range than Fal, but its used in close quarter entries." " Which one is your favorite?" "like the Heckler." " Why?" "Well it doesn't recoil, its silent when firing, and its nicer to shoot it, like firing from a toy." "All you hear is Tap Tap Tap." " Do you get any special treatment here as a sportsman?" "Well to be honest with you, I do." "I don't have guard duty, the guys went to camp for 7 days in the woods, only" "I didnt have to, for obvious reasons." "Seven days they spent sleeping in the tents." "They dig themselves in the ground in the woods and live off dry meals for 7 days." "They come back sick, its bad." "Blisters popped, I wouldn't recover for a month from it. so it was understandable that the commander sparred me of all that." "So I do get some minor privileges." "It's impossible for me to keep guard all night and train the next day and so." "And the other stuff, I don't shun away from it." "How does the intervention look like?" " The guy on duty sounds the alarm for the response team that's in the base 24 hrs a day." "They phone us, or since Im here, it's enough for them to shout out ALERT, and it takes me around 4 minutes to be ready in our vehicles already." "What when you're having a match?" " Well, when Im having a match I'm not here." "Then I'm in Japan." "Then it's not worth calling me, because it would take me about 2 days to come here." "But, Im always for a short time in Japan, 4 days total." "Shirt backwards, for good luck." " Really?" "Yes." "Kneepads in case I have to climb somewhere, to protect myself." "Kevlar vest is usually worn, but I won't this time." "I won't need it." "Lets go!" "So, what do you feel when you're doing this?" "Adrenaline." "Something similar like when you're fighting." "We are using live ammunition, one has to be focused to the max, especially if Im working with my colleagues." "Having a man in front of him, one cannot make a mistake." "It's a high stress job, and it takes a maximum concentration and not just anybody can be in the spec. forces." " What is more joy, this practice or a practice in the ring?" "I think that this is still the bigger adrenaline rush." "The practice itself cannot be compared with this." "Fighting maybe, but this is something special." "First you do the obstacle course, or some pushups, or some wrestling holds." "I tell him, you're entering the room, and you have a person you need to take in." "So, it puts him in the stress situation, and he can't forget the ways of finishing the mission." "There is munitions check, cocking, and 100 more things." "Lay down!" "Other hand!" "They are practicing the drawing of the weapon." " Why are you not doing it now?" "The crew is taking their training right now." "Why did you want to be a cop?" " Well, I don't know." "I wanted that as a kid." " What triggered you?" "A cop on a motorcycle?" "Why did you want to be a cop?" " Well, I don't know." "I wanted that as a kid." " What triggered you?" "A cop on a motorcycle?" " No, I wanted to be the Spec." "Forces." "Black jumpsuits and that got to me, just like martial arts did." "Were you reading the ninja novels and that?" " Yes, I did in the elementary school them ninja novels." "What are they doing?" " Breaking through the crowd." "On the streets there could be a crowd, and you need to get through to reach the assailant, so they simulate it like that." "How did Mirko wind up in your unit?" ""Comdr. Anti Terrorist Unit Lucko." Well this is the unit for the best, and since he is one of the best in his sport, he deemed himself that he belongs here, and we are glad to have him here, because he is among the best." "Can he drive this vehicle?" " Yes, he can, but we had one problem, he is too wide, so we had to widen the hatches a bit, otherwise he wouldn't fit in this normal hatch." "We noticed that he hates to lose in anything." "He gets up from the table, and flips it over, it takes 10 people to restrain him." "Here in the base, no one has defeated me in chess." "Nobody?" " Well, NOBODY." "Did you play with anybody at all?" "That gentleman over there, Mr. Pejic Damir played around 400 games with me, and didn't win one." "You know how people react, you know a boxer dumb ass and that." "Then I prove to everybody, you want chess?" "Did you tell them for the two figures less?" "I give him the rook and the runner, and with that I beat him." "One time only have I got to beat him, and then he was angry and nervous." "One time I was on the way to beat him, but then he ran, because there was a roll call." "He managed to escape on time, he got away." "But he is still strong, when he's playing with all figures, you can't beat him..." "So far, I'm undefeated in free shoots, and he wouldn't beat me in penalty shots either." "He's skinny from the chess, he gets nervous a lot." "It's the worrying..." "Besides his practices, we put him in the role of the instructor as well." "We are trying to use all of his athletic" "So, he places the arm under, but don't goes on the neck, but grabs the neck from the underneath, and stretch him so the vertebraes break..." "Finished." "So you're in this position, belly to belly." "Why?" "You'll get kneed in the nuts." "I must protect myself, jerk on the side..." "This was the display of one of our daily practices." "These are all well trained people, used to things like this." "This was the display of one of our daily practices." "These are all well trained people, used to things like this." " Are there any potentials here?" "Well in any case, many of them could, if they would prepare well, and work on some technique and condition, perform on the ultimate fight." "This is the space of the firm Zvonimir Security, which is on ownership of my manager, and my great friend Zvonimir Lucic, who in fact discovered me." "If it wasnt for him, we wouldn't be sitting here today." "I had me a club with a couple hundred students, and one boy came to practice that I noticed, he was very physically complete, I saw that he had the predispositions for martial arts." "From that moment, and that was around 7-8 years ago, I simply devoted myself to that guy." "While I was in the college, I made my money working as a bouncer in the clubs." "Then when he saw my talent, and my will, he enabled me to not to have to work." "He gave me money every month, paid for my apartment, so I was with out worries." "So, I lived well, and could devote myself to the training only, and here, that paid off." "You know that today, a top sportsman, especially world famous such as Mirko Filipovic is, cant come out just out of nowhere, out of hobby, with out financial, and moral support." "So I gave him all the backup that was needed." "He was very humble, I must say." "At the practice, he was very disciplined, and very serious, and after the practice, he's as humorous as he is today." "Here, we're playing the old folk game, named Bela." "Me and my partner Drago are the champions of our district (Slavonija and Baranja)." " Was there ever any bets?" "Here, I can quote my best man, he played over at my place in Zagreb, and I beat him, with more cards." " What does that mean?" "Well he's got 10 cards and I got 12-13, and there's no way he can beat me." "But the dumb ass don't get it." "I throw, one card and say:" ""Lets do it like this:" "If I beat you 5-0, and there's no way for him to win one, you'll run naked to the curve on the road"." "And he said OK." "He said it with attitude, because it's really hard to get a 5-0." "OF course, the score was 5-0,I had more cards than him." "And my best man, props to him, ran." "I let him run in his boxers." "He ran on some gravel like a horse, and hurt himself, oh my that was a laugh." "Kume!" "(Croatian for a best man on wedding)." "What naked?" ""Mirko's best man, and vice versa"" " Ah nothing." "Don't believe him everything." "Come on, Kume!" "tell him." "Well Im embarrassed." "Well tell the truth." " Well it is the truth, there you go!" "How old are you?" "Well by the looks, I got around 45, by the intelligence 12, and in reality 27." "Do you have a tick?" "Yes, I shake my shoulder... that's the nerves, I dont know..." "But it's been for a while now." "I don't know if that's the stress, or what." "Sometimes my hand just flies off like this, I can't control it, you know." "In the sleep, I feel it, one time I banged my had like that, Bang like this, I awoke from the hit." "One time my mother broke down crying over it, but I told her, it would be even worse if I was digging the ditches (sewers)." "There's a tick!" "Oh no, that was a fly behind my ear, not a tick." "Are you normal(sane)?" "Well, yes, I am normal, but lucky, l-l-lucky beca-because of this sport I don't have any any any consequences f-f-f-or now." "But that don't mean they can't resurface la-la-later." "To be honest, I'm mostly scared of planes." "All the rest is zero points all together." "I'm always freaked out when it's taking off." "And the fighting and brawling and that, forget about it..." " What symptoms do you have?" "Well I don't have any symptoms, but I have to have two stewardesses sit in my lap." "Mirko, what does it feel like when you're going to Japan?" "The trip is 11 hrs, but it seems like 111 hrs to me." " Who are these young fellows?" "The gentleman in the black shirt is professor Pokrajac, in the white shirt, with bangs in his eyes is Dr. Bencic, and this is not Clark Gable, but Mr. Zvonimir Lucic my manager." "Are you watching a match in the van?" "I dont know who put that tape in, we watched some of my fights." "It is not a tape." "It's direct on TV." " Yes." "This is even on their TV." "And these are the clips from the press conference." "Every press conference is the same." "The fighters come out, the most important thing is that they shake hands with each other in front on the journalists." "Who is this gentleman in the gray suit?" "That is the owner of the K-1 tournament, Mr. Ishii." "This is one of my most certainly most zealous fans." "She always waits for me, she always brings a gift, some towels with checkered pattern (Croatian flag)." "This is a standard procedure, photos in front of the hotel, an autograph here and there." "The lady in the red shirt is unavoidable." "She was at all my matches." "She really follows me from the Fukuoka on the South, to the North, Tokyo, everywhere, she is really present at every tournament." "This is a legendary person that had picture taken with me for 345 times." "Is that right?" "Say Tako je (thats right)." "Tako je." "And on what do you sign yourself on?" "What are the weirdest things you have signed?" "The weirdest thing?" "Well, I can't tell that because of my wife." "Give me a takedown, I'm bored." "This is me and Mike, we had a conflict here concerning lunch." "There was some problem." "There, he tapped." "Here is a little bit of stripping." "I hope Igor wasn't embarrassed, but lucky for him I couldn't get it off all the way." "He wasn't wearing his thong." "He wears thongs, but I don't know what was with him today." "This happens when naive players take your word for something and suck on a triangle." "You can now resist, I have closed my triangle, you see, and now look, from here tape this, he is now dead here." "You have squeezed me!" "I know I have squeezed you!" "Look at this down here..." "Does it hurt?" " It doesn't but I have Blood in my head." "Our dear friend Yankee he is a cameraman who unfortunately was unlucky enough to ask some stupid questions while we were playing cards, so I made a recess and explained to him that he shouldn't do that anymore, interrupting us while we play cards." "You see it good on the cam?" "Do you give up huh?" "I think his childhood unwound in front of his eyes, but ok here, the worst is gone." "This is goofing off, we found some Japanese in the room next to us, so we splashed them with water." "We did that with everybody." "Nobody opened their door in the hotel." "It took 15 checks..." "Swear on it!" "On your mother!" "I don't have a bucket!" "and stuff like that." "Otherwise there's no chance to get the door opened, you get a bucket immediately." "Till when did you play cards?" " Till 5 in the morning." "This is a check weigh in." "I had to be at 98 Kilos for this match." "I dropped 5 kilos." "Do you hang out with your opponents?" "Before the fight no, but after the fight, we often sit down at the table together, or if we run into each other in the city or at the dinner we sit at the same table." "What is Igor Cvitanovic doing here?" "He's playing for the Shimitsu Plus, the Japanese first league soccer club." "Before every match he greets me here." "This is the first time that I managed to have him with me in the dressing room." " It was good to have him with us." "He helped to comment the matches before." "We didn't know what was happening until he explained some moves that Minotauro did to Sapp." "What is checked here?" " Blood pressure, body temperature.." "that's the most important, and the pulse, heart rate." "Did anyone fail the exam?" " Nah." "That's just pro forma..." "There's nothing to fail here, everyone's ready." "I think it never happened as far as I know." "Stand with souvenirs, shirts, and all other stuff, figurines, pictures." "Here you look a bit sleepy on the picture." "They just woke me up for the shoot, and I didn't feel like doing it." "How many souvenirs of you are there?" "All together I think there's 17 products." "What do you eat before the match?" "The 7 hours before the match I always take a bit of fruit, some energy bars, chocolate and so." "I see plenty of women here coming to the match." "That's always the problem with my matches, I don't know what do those women see in me, but here, there's more women than men here, it's a burden that I'll bear." "I don't know why I affect women in that way." "Im joking a little." "I can't be cocky." "This missy is checking if she's got my number, unfortunately, she doesn't." "Unfortunately for her of course." "These are my legendary audience." "They wait a lot." "What are you dreaming?" "What did I dream?" "How I whooped Sakuraba." "This is bandage control." " So they sign?" "Yeah so I don't take it off, so I dont put something under, like a horse shoe or something like that." "This is my exit to the ring, the whole crew is here." "Do you get goose bumps when you here the audience roar?" "Well when I hear my song, is when I get the goose bumps." "Wild boys." "Why did you pick it?" "I don't know." "I like that song, and I enjoy in it." "And I never listen to it just like that, but only when I come out to a match." "Beautiful ambience if one can relax that much to enjoy in it." "I really do." "Afterwards it's even fore fun." "Im here on the ground with Sakuraba, he managed to take down, but..." "You almost fell asleep." " I almost fell asleep from boredom, he couldn't do anything." "Lucky, that Mike was yelling to keep me awake." "This is already the end of the fight." "After this came the heel kick to the eye, and I broke his orbital bone." "He couldn't go on." "Even if he didn't get a kick in the eye, his leg was so damaged, I don't think he could continue the match." "His leg was so swollen from my kicks, he barely moved around the ring, nothing would come out of that." "Our Flag..." "I didn't realize that those were our people, our doctors, that were on some seminar, in the dark, I couldn't see." "I thought it were Japanese holding it, but I went to say hi." "At the end, me and Mike went on with training, because the match was set for 3 rounds, and I have finished after the second, so I missed the 3rd round." "Press conference after the fight." "Here we fell asleep, me and Mike." "Somebody asked a stupid question, and we fell asleep." "This is the party after the match, I was there for about 2.30 minutes." "Here we are, finally, on the holy Croatian ground." "The manager organized some tambourine players to sing me a little." ""My house at the end of the village" my favorite song." "My wife, mother, you can see my father in law in the background." "Fidel Castro holding a speech, Mr Lucic." "Message for the end?" " Be Ready!" "You're Next!" ""Klaudija F. Mirko's wife" First time I was on the match was in Zagreb." "And last time when he had it with Fujita in August." "After that I don't think I'll be going." "It was horrible." "Every hit can be deadly, but I hope it won't happen to him." "I never watch, I first hear from him." "Then it takes some time for me to be able to watch it." "All my tears couldn't keep him from it." " So there were tears from you?" "Very much." "I met Mirko when my mom and his neighbor were in the same hospital, I went on to visit her, in Privlaka, and so I met Mirko there." "What I like about him is that he is very persistent." "And he fulfills all his goals to the max." "What is the most sexy on Mirko?" " Well Mirko." "His whole body is sexy to me." "Women first of all has to be educated, must have good manners, I don't like harsh words coming from women." "Must be good looking, and must not ask many questions." "Who would you like to meet?" " Clint Eastwood." "He's a legendary face." "Are you bloodthirsty in daily life?" "No, I'm not." "Nah." "I'm sick of it in this kind of life." "Soccer, or a world championship, or any soccer game can be watched by mother, father, and kids, and your fights they can't." "Why can't they?" "The guys like to watch it." "It's brutal." "It's no soccer." "But yet again, everyone had at least one fight in his life, we're talking like men here right?" "I'm fascinated by it." "That's why I have started doing it." "A Minotauro from the deadly position pulls out a triangle to a Olympic winner." "That's grand mastery." "There is not such a thing in a service, Ace, or a free kick in soccer ." "Is that not an art?" "It is a grand art!" "FRIENDSHIP:" "The most beautiful thing in the world." "VIAGRA:" "What is that?" "LAUGHTER:" "A thing I can't do without." "PLACE FOR EXCHANGE OF FONDNESS:" "A soccer field." "But over night." "When you have a big space... freedom..." "If the babe starts running you'll catch her for sure, you won't break your self in some bushes." "BAD CHARACTER TRAIT:" "I get angered quickly, but I can still control it." "IF I WAS AN ANIMAL, I WOULD BE..." "I would like to bee my dog." " Why?" "Because he's living the best life in the world." "I don't know if any other creature is living like that." "Give me another one, this one wasn't good." "Give me a kiss!" "How come you have _______ pekinezer, and not a pit bull." "Well there's a saying:" "Fuck the dog if you can't hit him." "So if you were to hit a rotweiler, he would rip off your leg." "Nah, I'm kidding." "I'd like to have a bigger dog maybe, but pekinezer is a must as a house pet." "I love him." "Mickey is sleeping in bed with me, he's got a pillow right next to mine." "He is getting a bath every night before sleep, washing his feet after the walk." "What, his feet smells?" " They don't but he walks around everywhere so you have to wash it." "One time my wrist watch stopped from fear." "I'm sensitive to him." "He got to me." "It was mating period, and he left after some bitch." "That night I died from fear." "It was perhaps the worst moments of my life." "And he's gone for the whole night." "I got in the car, I went around all neighborhoods, completely, screaming for the whole night till 5 AM I was looking for him, and he's not there." "The other day, already there was a PA on all the radio stations, and he's not around." "I plastered the whole neighborhood, a big reward to whoever finds him, for any info." "And on the 3rd day, I didn't eat for two days, I swear to you, it's unbelievable how much I was upset over the dog," "I'm standing on the balcony, about to faint from sorrow, and he's coming, approaching slowly." "I didn't believe it, ran out, he was full of weeds, he was out somewhere with a lady." "And the loser gets..." "Hey doctor!" "This is for the penalties!" "Jesus!" " Ok." "Hit him hit him!" ""Vlado Eremija" " The frog" We eat what we catch!" "There's no easy food here." "The pig!" "This is the attraction." "Let's go!" "Fuck it!" "Hey, you can tell he's training." "This was the demonstration of the ultimate fighting of our Cro Cop Team from Privlaka." "The Frog here is the undisputed champ, he defended the title, he could go into sumo wrestling no problem." "A joke!" "He's gonna break me!" "It's only a joke, cut the crap!" "No way, he would break me because i was joking he has no teeth!" "My wife wouldn't recognize me." "Come on!" "No fight, its just a joke." "No!" "NO!" "Stop!" "When the ref says..." "Listen!" "No below the belt, when the ref says stop, the fight is stopping." "Is that clear?" "Step back, move over there everybody!" "Fight!" "Stop it!" "Lets go!" "Fight!" "Get back to the ring!" "Fight!" "Don't laugh hey!" "Give him water!" "Hey Papro!" "Are you ok?" "It's ok." "Pour him with the water!" "The tongue!" "The tongue!" "It was a joke... fuck it." " It's ok." "Give me a mineral water." "It was a joke, fuck it." " Never mind..." " Don't take it serious." "He hit me more times." "He hit me 10 times in the head." "I see your lips red a little." "Ok, never mind!" "We were counting on them fighting by the rules, this wasn't by the rules, because he intently hit him in the head." "Where is that?" "In what sport?" "Well the desire was so big, and unfortunately we found only one pair of gloves, so we split it one each, but the front hand was not to be used." "I even counted on them running in the circle, as it was, no real shots, but he, found him with a good shot, knocked him down." "Hey, I died from fear." "Now it's funny, now it's gone, but... it wasn't to laugh at." "Translated and edited by Hamush and Neno."