Via Watch Kalib Run:

Remember Dana White’s tirade against Mirko Cro Cop after UFC 99? Where he called the Croatian striking machine every name in the book and his sycophants in the media quickly chimed in with their ‘huzzahs’ concluding that Dana had been screwed over?

Obviously someone was selling the proverbial bill of goods, but no one seems to remember way back a few weeks ago. While in the aftermath of UFC 100 that’s somewhat understandable there’s still a lot of unanswered questions. Over at Watch Kalib Run, they’re asking some of these questions:

Now that Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic has signed a new UFC contract (his third within the promotion) and is set to fight at UFC 103 there are still lingering questions regarding the aftermath of UFC 99.

The first issue is Dana White’s post fight comments and Kevin Iole’s report that Filipovic signed a three-fight deal with Dream. Mirko would later claim to have not signed with Dream and was weighing his options as he had only agreed to a one-fight deal with the UFC. Then Mike Kogan, who runs the U.S. operation of Dream’s parent company, Fighting and Entertainment Group confirmed that “Cro Cop” had indeed signed with Dream.

The next twist in the story came when Lorenzo Fertitta flew to Croatia to negotiate with Filipovic in his home country. (Quick aside: if Mirko had in fact signed with Dream how/why could Fertitta negotiate a deal?)

Once Filipovic and the UFC agreed to a new contract Kevin Iole reported that Mirko had in fact not signed a contract with Dream as Filipovic himself claimed in the immediate aftermath.

So who is being truthful and who is being deceitful?

Full thing here:

Forgotten story: The he said, she said between the UFC and Cro Cop @ Watch Kalib Run

We also posed the question ‘who screwed whom?’ shortly after UFC 99:

Dana vs. Cro Cop: Who Screwed Whom? @ The Savage Science