Cro-Cop vs. Al-Turk Official For UFC 99

A fight we all knew was taking place was finally officially announced by the UFC today via UFC.com.

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic will make his return to the UFC at UFC 99 when he fights Mustapha Al-Turk. Mirko has not fought since December 2008 where he defeated Hong Man Choi in K-1 Dynamite!!.

Mustapha Al-Turk made his UFC debut at UFC 92 in December 2008 where he lost to Cheick Kongo via TKO in the first round.

UFC 99 is currently scheduled for June 13 in Cologne, Germany. Listed below is the current full fight card.

Main Card

Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva
Cain Velasquez vs. Cheick Kongo
Spencer Fisher vs. Caol Uno
Mike Swick vs. Ben Saunders
Dan Hardy vs. Marcus Davis

Undercard

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. Mustapha al Turk
Terry Etim vs. Justin Buchholz
Stefan Struve vs. Denis Stojnic
Dale Hartt vs. Dennis Siver
Paul Taylor vs. Peter Sobotta
Paul Kelly vs. Roli Delgado
John Hathaway vs. Ricky Story

Dr J

Posted: June 1st, 2009 3 Comments Categories: Featured, Headline, News
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bvrasp says:

June 1, 2009 at 11:33 pm

Kimbo Slice, is now Officially on the next season of TUF lolol.

Im loving this guys, the whole situation is just so amusing, Dana saying how Kimbo is garbage and the only way to prove himself would be to win TUF… so Kimbo says what the hell! LOL its gotta be a nice paycheck for Kimbo just to appear on the show win or lose.

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richard says:

June 2, 2009 at 2:42 am

so the next season is heavys and light heavys?

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bvrasp says:

June 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm

Richard it was supposed to be HW and MW, but they scrapped the MW and now its just a 16 man HW tourney with no prelim fights to get in the house.

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