In my opinion, Pat Barry played the friendship tip too much in this fight. There was loads of respect given prefight and high fives annd hugs ensued during the fight after good exchanges.
It started out with Pat Barry really crushing CroCop with a few leg kicks and an excellent right hook that knocked CroCop down and Barry didn’t follow up.
Barry won this round.
In the second round, Barry danced more taking the round off, while CroCop landed an axe kick of all things, as well as throwing 2 of his “cemetery” leg kicks that were blocked. Mirko got a takedown.
Mirko probably won this round on activity alone as Barry didn’t do much.
In the third round, Mirko was swinging with punches mostly, while Barry was winded, threw a few really weak leg kicks. Other than that, he didn’t do anything else for the rest of the round. Mirko took him down, Barry got up. Mirko dropped a very nice combination on Barry’s head that backed him up and crumpled him a little bit. Mirko took him down from there and eventually cinched a rear naked choke that most fighters would have been able to defend.
Barry needs to work on his conditioning big time and I think this was a fight he could’ve won easily had he focused.