Just look at crocops face before the fight. Just no fear. No pre fight anxiety. Always just so calm and matter a fact and collected. In his own league man. Straight killer
He was a novelty. There are hardly any black people in Japan and then this guy was a huge monster on steroids with bulging muscles. Not something they ever get to see. He's more of a sideshow to them
That liver kick followed by the direct is just mind blowing.The pain in Sap face shows you how hurtful that was . He lost his soul there for a few seconds.Even when he exited the ring,he couldn't walk straight.Bending all the way,that was painful to watch.And Sap isn't some small dude,he's a big motherfucker. That is some killer kick right there. Crocop was a league of his own in his prime,that's for sure.💪🏻
@@paularnaud923The kick definitely did hurt, Sapp already took a few shots at the liver. His guard in the end is really low and the way he flinched at 8:35 tells he is hurt. The final liver kick was almost enough to put Sapp down
I'm seven years late, but still gonna say that he was in wrestling for a bit and even wanted to sign with WWE at one point and they also wanted him, but his K-1 contract forbid him from switching even after his fallout with them.
i remember seeing this live on eurosport when i was a kid i was with mirko, for i saw him as david vs goliath and an extreme outsider i thought bob would slay him little did i know....
Bob was a great sportsman and draw in Japan, for K-1 especially, but for Pride and Dream too. His size and raw power was a formidable obstacle to even the most skilled kickboxers like Ernesto Hoost. Ironically Hoost's liver punch didn't put him away as it did Mirko. And Mirko won with a fracturing punch on Sapp after a short liver kick. You could see Sapp guarding his liver side cause he knew that's what the kickboxers would be targeting, but that opened him up for that killer punch. I think Mirko being primarily left handed gave him a slight edge over Hoost's attempts on Sapp. Ernesto never threw a left kick against Sapp that I saw, but kept kicking the opponent's left leg, which you could tell did damage but not enough to hobble him. Just funny to me how Sapp beat Hoost; Hoost beat Mirko; Mirko beat Sapp. Sapp was the least skilled but proved strength and size demand some respect. Hoost tried to stand in and throw, but Mirko avoided his onslaught and picked his shots.
Hoost could’ve won the rematch if he wasn’t so set on brawling with Sapp. He had Sapp hurt to the body and would’ve likely won if he’d have focused his combos to draw Sapp’s defense away from the damaged side.
Sapp said: I have tasted a pain like that, first that shoot in liver comes ( 3 or 4 seconds later ), he already punched me and broke my eye socket and than the pain from the liver came, I felt that I was dying... I wore eye patch for 3 months... Yet, I still can remember the pain from that middle kick!!! Dear God
Kinda funny when i see so many comments saying "the liver kick didn't hurt Bob Sapp"...guys are you serious ? We are talking about MIRKO CROCOP who built his legend out of his high and medium kicks, and he was at his prime period when he fought Sapp. I would even say that it's good for Sapp that he left the ring only with an orbital bone fracture...Could have been worse.
Correction to post comment- Sapp broke his arm defending against the kick, if you rewind to that moment that Smack sound is the bone snapping, this is why Sapp couldnt even move his arm after the kick. I remember watching it live and by time he was out of the ring his arm had swollen considerably and one could see it bruising up.
It kind of was the other way around back then... "I had no doubts, but right before me, Bob Sapp knocked out -- badly and very brutally, and two times in a row -- Ernesto Hoost. And I remember that just like it was yesterday. I was called by my manager and he said, ‘K-1 wants you to fight him.' I said I'm in Pride now. He said, ‘Yeah, we know, but nobody else wants to take the challenge fighting him.' Believe it or not, everybody was terrified of fighting Bob Sapp, especially after he knocked out Ernesto Hoost twice in a row. I said okay, no problem. But I was happy. I remember the fight, and I remember the expression on my face. He was a huge guy. "I had to be very careful, and I beat him very technically, very good. I kicked him first in the liver, and then I connected my left jab straight, right above the eye, and I broke his bone. I put his bone inside, and he had to go to surgery the same night to take it out, so it was very, very painful, but I was happy, of course. He was a beast".
You are way off on him beating Hoost. You do realize most of Sapp’s fights were fixed. He mostly won against scrubs but when he fought most skilled fighters he mostly lost cuz Sapp really sucks. Also you seem to not know any of the facts of Sapp vs Hoost fight. There is a reason for why it was controversial. Sapp won by a first-round TKO after the doctor stopped the match on cuts. Hoost wanted to keep going but the doctor said his cuts were bleeding too much. So Sapp won cuz the doctor wouldn’t let Hoost fight. And Hoost was pissed at that. Despite the loss he was again matched up with Sapp in the quarter finals of the K-1 World Grand Prix 2002. Hoost was wooping Sapp most of the fight. After knocking Sapp down in first round, Hoost lost to Sapp again in a wild slugfest when referee Nobuaki Kakuda declared a TKO while Hoost was still standing, but after the fight, Sapp turned out to have broken his hand and suffered four cracked ribs, and wasn't able to continue, allowing Hoost to replace him in the semi-finals. Hoost wasn’t even knocked out in the second match he was still standing and was still fine. If you watch the fight again, Sapp was so gassed out after the TKO he was looked like he couldn’t last another round. Hoost looked like he was good to go. There is controversy that K1 was bias of Sapp and gave him the win on purpose. They didn’t want Hoost winning so the referee gave Sapp the TKO even though there was no knock out. It’s all bullshit. If the fight kepted going Hoost would have won that fight and he was at first. Sapp sucks and even he himself admits that.
Bruce Wayne No dude. Hoost wasn’t gassed at all. He wouldn’t have continued in Sapp’s place if that was true. Plus Sapp was getting dominated by Hoost in the early half. The ref made a bias call and Joe Rogan even says that call was unfair and bias.
Just look at crocops face before the fight. Just no fear. No pre fight anxiety. Always just so calm and matter a fact and collected. In his own league man. Straight killer
Yes
Yess
That's right killer he hit Bob so hard he dropped to the ground spit out his mouth piece and cried
Mirko's face is like "Bob Sapp may be a big guy, but I didn't see him in that Serbian POW camp."
Srpskih heroja@@mich5924
Sapp was an icon in Japan, it didn't matter how bad he was, the Japanese loved the guy.
Bobbuuuh Sappuruuuuuuuh! They did love the man. :)
BOOOOB SAAAAPPPUUUUUU
He was like Godzilla lmao
He was a novelty. There are hardly any black people in Japan and then this guy was a huge monster on steroids with bulging muscles. Not something they ever get to see. He's more of a sideshow to them
He was a circus animal to them, nothing more.
I like how it says Sapp's style is NFL lol...
LOL, yeah i noticed that too lol
Ahahahahaha 😅
@@AllKinaTing the Best king of world Mirko crocop 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑♥️🇭🇷
@@kawazakiyuri3198 🔥💯
@@AllKinaTing. the Best of world figth UFC king👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑🇭🇷♥️🥇👆💪💣Mirko fillipovic crocop
Love the sportsmanship between the two even with bob having a broken orbital. These 2 are people you would never fuck with in a million years
Me? Not in a BILLION!
サップはこの試合まで一度も負けたことなかったけど、この試合をきっかけに負けっぱなしになった笑
The chink in his armor was exposed... pun intended but just for fun. Much love 👊🏻
I like the expression on CroCop's face at about 6:57. He's just like. "Ehh, he aint that big."
Crocop casually looking at his next kill
Cro Cop is just looking over to th other corner like "Give me your giant. I will cut him down like all the rest."
That liver kick followed by the direct is just mind blowing.The pain in Sap face shows you how hurtful that was . He lost his soul there for a few seconds.Even when he exited the ring,he couldn't walk straight.Bending all the way,that was painful to watch.And Sap isn't some small dude,he's a big motherfucker.
That is some killer kick right there.
Crocop was a league of his own in his prime,that's for sure.💪🏻
Complete chills dude
@@baydenjones2897 Amazing right
@@danielmagal8716 Too good
He broke Sapps orbital with the punch. The kick didn't hurt Bob that much 🤷♀️
It wasn't a kick
Damn I was 7 when I watched this live in 2003. Still remember like it was yesterday. That tells you how big that fight was.
U from America? I thought k1 was crazy as a kid. Like some side show
@@CP-um4tk You can see by his name he is from Croatia.
@@CP-um4tk No......It was where the ELITE of the strikers fought. Different rules from Muay Thai, so that it didnt end up a clinch/Leg Kick Fest.
wow you're very young lol, I was 16 in 2003. I can barely remember being 7 let alone remembering something I watched on television in 1994 lol.
How did you get to watch it? Was it nationally televised
Such a clean, well-timed kick on the liver, will never forget this kick..
That's NOT what it was. The kick didn't hurt him......It was the punch. It broke Bob's orbital bone....his eye-socket.....
Its been a year I hope you forgot about the kick by now since it’s not what ended the fight
Dammit, why do people keep saying it's the kick
@@lemankurtz8950actually yes the kick to the liver was the end
Guys don't know nothing about a punch or kick in the liver because they still thinking that was the punch what ended the fight
Mirko probably had the hardest kick at that time, but Bob probably also had the biggest liver to hit ... 😁
The kick didn’t hurt Bob
The punch did
@@paularnaud923The kick definitely did hurt, Sapp already took a few shots at the liver. His guard in the end is really low and the way he flinched at 8:35 tells he is hurt. The final liver kick was almost enough to put Sapp down
Sapp should sign for WWE instead
He started in WCW as a wrestler didn't he ?
@Legendaran prank that was the biggest mistake in NJPW history
I'm seven years late, but still gonna say that he was in wrestling for a bit and even wanted to sign with WWE at one point and they also wanted him, but his K-1 contract forbid him from switching even after his fallout with them.
I love how Bob said good punch, good punch.
Respect for both of them, amazing fight.
i remember seeing this live on eurosport when i was a kid
i was with mirko, for i saw him as david vs goliath and an extreme outsider
i thought bob would slay him
little did i know....
Same and nice David vs Goliath
Body king kong and heart mickey mouse = bob sap
The Fan CLub for Mirko CroCop here in Japan still strong in 2024! i have seen multiple people, specially girls with t-shirts with CroCop image!!!
Crocop gets stronger every time he's hit in the balls.
🤣
Mitico, favoloso, grande Mirko.
A ring so large never felt *so small* when Sapp is in there with you.
I've had my eye socket broken in a street fight u have to be a hell of a man to want to continue after that
I think the liver kick stunned him or hurt him then he was just flat footed for the follow up. Bullied
@@Dillonmac96 That and the punch that Crop Cop landed broke Sapp's orbital bone, leaving a permanent dent on his face even today.
Bob was a great sportsman and draw in Japan, for K-1 especially, but for Pride and Dream too. His size and raw power was a formidable obstacle to even the most skilled kickboxers like Ernesto Hoost. Ironically Hoost's liver punch didn't put him away as it did Mirko. And Mirko won with a fracturing punch on Sapp after a short liver kick. You could see Sapp guarding his liver side cause he knew that's what the kickboxers would be targeting, but that opened him up for that killer punch. I think Mirko being primarily left handed gave him a slight edge over Hoost's attempts on Sapp. Ernesto never threw a left kick against Sapp that I saw, but kept kicking the opponent's left leg, which you could tell did damage but not enough to hobble him. Just funny to me how Sapp beat Hoost; Hoost beat Mirko; Mirko beat Sapp. Sapp was the least skilled but proved strength and size demand some respect. Hoost tried to stand in and throw, but Mirko avoided his onslaught and picked his shots.
Hoost could’ve won the rematch if he wasn’t so set on brawling with Sapp. He had Sapp hurt to the body and would’ve likely won if he’d have focused his combos to draw Sapp’s defense away from the damaged side.
😂😂😂 nada tiene sentido
Bob is a class act
You're all batshit crazy if you say anything positive about sapp
Mirco hat geschickt geklammert und Bob so entschärft.und dann diesen Kombi Schlag gemacht.Ernesto wollte sich mit Bob prügeln was ein Fehler war.
wow, what anime is this? 10 outta 10
A fraction of what we coulda seen if he signed the contract
Right leg hospital left leg cemetery.
Damn, mirko cro cop is a scary scary man.
Sapp said: I have tasted a pain like that, first that shoot in liver comes ( 3 or 4 seconds later ), he already punched me and broke my eye socket and than the pain from the liver came, I felt that I was dying...
I wore eye patch for 3 months...
Yet, I still can remember the pain from that middle kick!!!
Dear God
right kick 🏥, left kick 🪦
This is the best response to Bradley Martin saying "But I'm 260 bro".
In movies bob sapp would appear as the final boss. In real life its crocop
Mirko,the only guy ever to give a black eye to black guy hahhahaha
LOL
Hahaha
Shit not funny 😑
@@josephyoung1518 cry, snowflake, cry.
Kinda funny when i see so many comments saying "the liver kick didn't hurt Bob Sapp"...guys are you serious ? We are talking about MIRKO CROCOP who built his legend out of his high and medium kicks, and he was at his prime period when he fought Sapp. I would even say that it's good for Sapp that he left the ring only with an orbital bone fracture...Could have been worse.
I miss k1 it was my favourite sport once glory kick boxing just isn't the same
Crocop is a very strong man. Look at those clinching moments in this video.
I mean look at him
@@adb8003 Yeah, looks unfortunately don't always tell the whole story but in his case the book matches the cover.
How did he stay standing from those liver kicks...... People on here saying it's fixed lol 😂
Sapp gon lay down once the pain sets in lol. But he definitely was getting his butt kicked 🤣👍
Hey, is Bob Sapp a kaiju? That's why the japanese love him so much lol
Yea there's 2 little Japanese guys inside of him pushing levers and buttons
@@PsychKingler 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s too bad WWE never got Bob Sapp around this time. He would’ve been money.
You're telling me that Pride was run by the yakuza, but K-1 was on the up and up? I don't know.
In case any one forgot that sapp actually won some big fights he did beat hoost twice lol.
Great video . Hey what's the entrance music to cro cops entrance?
Duran Duran - Wild Boys
@ausfighter1186 hey thanks! Cheers.
it was SO epic
i watched it in croatia back then
I LOVED IT
he is the best
Great entrance by Bob Sapp... He wasnt the best fighter but damn was he entertaining and fun.
Он два раза Эрнеста Хуста побеждал, чемпа К1, не хухры-мухры )
Man back in the day CroCop was a head kicking monster! He was deadly accurate and put your lights out with one well timed kick!
Good old timeee. Memoriesss....
2 meters and 155kg... THAT'S FOOKING SCARY
Thank you ❤🎉❤🎉
Correction to post comment- Sapp broke his arm defending against the kick, if you rewind to that moment that Smack sound is the bone snapping, this is why Sapp couldnt even move his arm after the kick. I remember watching it live and by time he was out of the ring his arm had swollen considerably and one could see it bruising up.
Bob The Crap Sapp!😆
I do gotta say I never seen Mirko run around this much
He was fighting a Giant smart tactic Run around 😂
Cro Cop stared at the camera like he was Liam Neeson about to kill the dude who kidnapped his daughter.
Sapp has two wins against hoost is insane 😂
Right leg, hospital. Left leg, cemetery. Left straight, broken orbital bone.
8:11 freeze the video here.
I want this image on a shirt rofl
K-1 & Pride fights were so cool!
The reverberations from that left kick still encircle the Globe and can be measured on the Richter scale to this day.
Good one, dude!
@@david9783 HaHa :D
Cro cop best european man
It's said that Cro Cop broke Bob Sapps Orbital, but this absolutely looks like like a Yakuza setup to me.
Anybody knows the name of the japanese comentator (woman) that screems when Mirko KOed Sapp ?
You can hear the click when he punched him even with gloves on, sound of a broken face!!
You see the respect Cro cop gives to the Croatians in the beginning.
He has always been a class act, a real professional
What's happened with Bob?
Bob was a freak of nature in his day
*Bob sap foi uma vergonha como lutador, 2m de altura e seus 155kg, perdeu várias lutas e sempre chorou que nem uma criança mimada*
Thank you so much for this upload..
Can you upload more of Cro Cop's K1 fights in its entirety?
Thatd be awesome.
the best cro cop
no way best cro cop is against gonzaga first ufc
BOB JE JAK,ALI NAŠ MIRKO LOMI SVE PO REDU
Bob je glumac ne borac.
thank u bro
And he wanted to fight mike Tyson 😂
Believe me, rather Tyson than cro cop
@@BenjiFrank prime cro cop was genuinely terrifying
Mirko is a way harder fight than Mike Tyson.
@@jkennerson123 especially those legs, considering he was also a good boxer
@@ptrgr72 Although he was not technical with the punches but the power was insane. He broke the orbital bone of sapp here.
That punch must have hurt! That scream Bob did was sad. Nothing but pain.
why would bob sapp even want to fight cro cop in kickboxing lol
Maybe cause of $$$ hehe :D
It kind of was the other way around back then...
"I had no doubts, but right before me, Bob Sapp knocked out -- badly and very brutally, and two times in a row -- Ernesto Hoost. And I remember that just like it was yesterday. I was called by my manager and he said, ‘K-1 wants you to fight him.' I said I'm in Pride now. He said, ‘Yeah, we know, but nobody else wants to take the challenge fighting him.' Believe it or not, everybody was terrified of fighting Bob Sapp, especially after he knocked out Ernesto Hoost twice in a row. I said okay, no problem. But I was happy. I remember the fight, and I remember the expression on my face. He was a huge guy.
"I had to be very careful, and I beat him very technically, very good. I kicked him first in the liver, and then I connected my left jab straight, right above the eye, and I broke his bone. I put his bone inside, and he had to go to surgery the same night to take it out, so it was very, very painful, but I was happy, of course. He was a beast".
You are way off on him beating Hoost. You do realize most of Sapp’s fights were fixed. He mostly won against scrubs but when he fought most skilled fighters he mostly lost cuz Sapp really sucks. Also you seem to not know any of the facts of Sapp vs Hoost fight. There is a reason for why it was controversial.
Sapp won by a first-round TKO after the doctor stopped the match on cuts. Hoost wanted to keep going but the doctor said his cuts were bleeding too much. So Sapp won cuz the doctor wouldn’t let Hoost fight. And Hoost was pissed at that. Despite the loss he was again matched up with Sapp in the quarter finals of the K-1 World Grand Prix 2002. Hoost was wooping Sapp most of the fight. After knocking Sapp down in first round, Hoost lost to Sapp again in a wild slugfest when referee Nobuaki Kakuda declared a TKO while Hoost was still standing, but after the fight, Sapp turned out to have broken his hand and suffered four cracked ribs, and wasn't able to continue, allowing Hoost to replace him in the semi-finals.
Hoost wasn’t even knocked out in the second match he was still standing and was still fine. If you watch the fight again, Sapp was so gassed out after the TKO he was looked like he couldn’t last another round. Hoost looked like he was good to go. There is controversy that K1 was bias of Sapp and gave him the win on purpose. They didn’t want Hoost winning so the referee gave Sapp the TKO even though there was no knock out. It’s all bullshit. If the fight kepted going Hoost would have won that fight and he was at first. Sapp sucks and even he himself admits that.
Bruce Wayne No dude. Hoost wasn’t gassed at all. He wouldn’t have continued in Sapp’s place if that was true. Plus Sapp was getting dominated by Hoost in the early half. The ref made a bias call and Joe Rogan even says that call was unfair and bias.
8:47 he dropped on the floor like a sack of potatoes, damn...
I didn't know Sapp's neck allowed his head to snap like that @11:47
В штабе Мирко это считалось огромной победой!
Боб саб дал шороху в свое время
why is there nfl and boxing in the begining,mirko is a kickboxer more then a boxer,and why nfl?
This is as close as Sapp got to fighting Tyson. Cro Cop is the Mike Tyson of head kicks. Mike Tyson would have seriously hurt Bob Sapp.
what happens if Bob Sapp ground and pounds Mike?
Mike has zero takedown defense
@@kennney8653 in k1 ground and pound? Zwei gute Treffer von tyson reichen,dann fängt Bob an zu weinen!
@@christianwendt4200 i think Sapp wasn't able to stand one punch from Mike.
8:45 Bob Sapp got punched in the eye, losing his eye sight temporarily and start screaming and dropped 🤣🤣🤣
Mirko broke his collar bone, which is very painful
@@sapac8667
No, it was the eye socket that shattered
@UCBhg-mkUNCX3LLFSeiMSHOA yes i've mistaken orbital bone for collarbone 🤦♂️
That kick could drop an elephant 🐘!!
I’ve seen this fight tooo many times
Fuck! Cro Cop is a beast!
a entrada durou mais do que a luta kkkk
Crocop é crocop, esperava o que
кро коп один из лучших!!
The respect sapp showed merco after getting a bone shattered in his face is amazing!
😂😂😂 that sapps look on his face😂😂😂😂
I don't know what the tale of the tape is but Mirko looks half the size of Bob Sapp😮😮😮
Lol. The only time seeing cro cop running scared in the ring
It starts at 7:00 👍 🍻
Bob Sapp só tinha tamanho mas não aguentava soco principalmente no rosto quando perceberam isso acabou a carreira do sapp
Olha as duas lutas que ele ganhou do Ernesto Hoost, maior kickboxer da época
Chorão bob sapp
... ' ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA '... HOW APT!... HAVE AN APPLE 🍎... FOR THE SHOW..😇🌼
Was a broken orbital bone that dropped him
Great combo by Crocop.
Браво Мирко СРБИНЕ! Тако ми србаљи то радимо
どっちも好きだったから当時リアルタイムでは複雑だった。たぶんミルコが勝つだろうなとは思ってたけど。ミルコを倒せるのはヒョードルとノゲイラだけだろうと。ノゲイラが一番好きな格闘家だった。
9:47 is surprisingly wholesome
МЫ ГОРДИМСЯ ТОБОЙ БРАВОООООО БУДЕМ ЗАНИМАТЬСЯ СПОРТОМ ТОЖЕ
Боб Саб катта бахайбатли жангчи лекин бесунакай нимжон ва ичи пукдир😂😂😂😂
Quem lutava contra Sapp já entrava perdendo psicologicamente
Fedor is about the only man that could get to the cop.
It was the kick that did it, not the left cross. wiki is wrong again.
He broke his orbital bone man!
Incredible liver kick.
So smart ,cro cop lure his arm away from his liver by punching the head 3 times when sapp lifted his arm he attacked the liver with the kick
This was when bob nearly killed Niguera. Nobody wanted to fight Bob.Even Fedor declined.
The fact tht cro cop broke sapps jaw or dislocated it was crazy and shows how strong he is
It was his orbital bone , the bone around the eye socket.