You mean if they fought in Japan, and Cro Cop was allowed to juice... and had backstage influence to manipulate fights?
Yea, he would definitely stand a chance because Pride would constantly book guys on short notice to fight him... or inform guys that they would be fighting a wrestler then BAM tell them on a week's notice that they'd be fighting CroCop... while CroCop has months to prepare for that fighter.
No version of CroCop succeeds in the UFC. Hell, he couldn't even get it done pre-usada... he would have been a big flop in USADA era
"Yea, he would definitely stand a chance because Pride would constantly book guys on short notice to fight him... or inform guys that they would be fighting a wrestler then BAM tell them on a week's notice that they'd be fighting CroCop... while CroCop has months to prepare for that fighter."
Hmmm... What you said is puzzling tbh...
Crocop had months to train for this or that fighter?
Well, cocky as he was, he was already considering
himself an elite striker and the top one in Pride,
so he naturally had to focus on ONE thing while
waiting for a Pride fight: his groundgame...
Wont u agree?
On a sidenote, he was the A-Side... It is what it is.
See the McNuggets´ FW situation in Modern UFC...
Always been like that, since the early boxing days...
B4 the Dos Caras fight, Pride announced an open challenge to get a decent opponent
for Crocop.