Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic (Croatia) vs Baruto Kaito (Estonia) | KNOCKOUT, MMA fight, HD

His 4th professional fight. Now this is a completely different demeanor. We'll take a look at the rules here very quickly. 2 rounds of 5 minutes. If there is no score by the judges, they disagree. It'll go to a 5th extra round and that is the only round that they will score. Kicks and knees to a downed opponent will be legal. Elbows are not. Even with the weight difference. So I guess Mirko decided to opt for it. And you can feel the tension in this arena. You can cut it with a knife right now. I think one of the unknowns in this fight is how much damage each of the fighters incurred in the first fight. Is there any lasting injuries? We see a mouse under the eye of both men. So I'm actually wondering, even myself, I'm a little bit bruised up as well from that last battle. So I can only imagine getting back in this soon after having a fight. Look at these men's face. This is some serious action right here. Both their eyes are violent and I think we're going to see somebody get hurt. You mentioned violent, Joe. The Mirko Krokob that Heath Haring and I experienced in September was a jovial one. A happy one. Since we landed here in Japan, Joe, you and I have noticed that this guy is not a happy camper. He is all business. Stone cold killer. Well, it is serious business in here, boys. Look at the tension in here. I love it. New Year's Eve night. Look at Bruto just stoic. Not even moving. They are discussing at the moment, ladies and gentlemen, because of the weight difference regarding soccer kicks. Mirko wants to make it clear, I believe, to my understanding, soccer kicks are not allowed. Oh, he's taking them out. I actually thought that might go the other way around. I did too, actually. I thought that Krokob might actually want a soccer kick. Bruto, if he gets him down, he can't get up super fast and he's going to drop a kick in his face. I would think that would benefit Mirko. Here we go. Here we go. Hold on to your couches. Now we're seeing Bruto kind of exercise the same tactic that Mighty Mo was using. Keep circling towards Mirko's right side, trying to eliminate that left kick. There you see him closing the distance there, trying to throw punches. Krokob got caught with one punch there, and this is exactly what Bruto wants. This is what we talked about, Joe. Pushing against the side of that ring and just keeping that power on him, wearing his opponent down. Absolutely, and that is a lot of weight to have to carry. You see Mirko doing a good job squaring up right here. He's not really in any danger. He's just kind of getting smothered right now. Exactly. Mirko needs to dig and underhook and circle his butt back to the center of that cage. Oh, he's got him. Down goes Bruto. Down goes Bruto. It's over. Unbelievable. I think that was a knee. I think it was a knee to the liver if I'm correct. That was awesome. We talked about this yesterday, Joe. How violent those knees are when they land. This could not go any better for Mirko Krokob. He advances to the finals. He will compete later on this evening. He incurred no damage, and it was over quickly. Yeah, I want to see the replay of this. It happened so fast. Yeah, he did what we said. He dug an underhook. He threw a hard knee to that belly, that low rib, and it dropped him. It doesn't matter how big you are, when you break those ribs, you go down like a ton of ribs. I think he just got him on the liver shot. I might be wrong, though. We'll see the replay in a second. You see Mirko Krokob's corner man asking him to relax, asking him to keep calm, to not have an adrenaline dump here. Yeah, Bruto's definitely... He's having a hard time walking out of the ring. I think it might be a rib. You might be correct. Oh, I think it was solar plexus. Got him right in the solar plexus. He's laughing at us right now. He's hurting, though. There he is. The legend, the mixed martial arts pioneer, Mirko Krokob Filipovic, victorious tonight. Look at this replay. Left knee to the solar plexus. He turned through the left hand, and it was all over. Bruto went right down to his chest, to his hands and knees, and they had a call to fight. World-class striker, gentlemen. World-class. Left knee to solar plexus. Well, Krokob said, you know what? I know you're down, but I don't trust that you're down. I'm going to go in there with a left hand to make sure you stay down. A wonderful job by the Croatian. Mirko Krokob now advances to the finals. He will take on the winner of the bout we are about to see next, Amir Aliakbari, taking on Valentin Moldavsky.