The following is an excerpt from an article from the Canadian Press:
Neil Davidson, Canadian Press
Published: Monday, April 23, 2007 Article tools
MANCHESTER, England (CP) – It ended with a kick to the head, as some had expected. But it was the wrong head.
Mirko (Cro Cop) Filipovic, the Croatian heavyweight who famously described his own kicking prowess by saying “Right leg, hospital, left leg cemetery,” was knocked out Saturday night by a right kick to the head from Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 70: Worlds Collide.
The 27-year-old Brazilian scored the mixed martial arts shocker at 4:51 of the first round after softening up and bloodying the heavily-favoured Filipovic with some vicious ground and pound before a sellout crowd of 14,921 at the MEN Arena.
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