Sources: Roy Nelson to face Mirko Cro Cop at Bellator 217

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Freeloading Rusty

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Sources: Roy Nelson to face Mirko Cro Cop at Bellator 217
Bellator will give Roy Nelson versus Mirko Cro Cop another go.

The heavyweight fight, which was originally scheduled for Bellator 200, has been rebooked for Bellator 217 on Feb. 16 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, sources told ESPN. That event will be headlined by Paul Daley vs. Michael "Venom" Page.

The fight will mark Cro Cop's long-awaited Bellator debut. Considered one of the best heavyweights of all time, the 44-year-old Cro Cop (37-11-2, 1 NC) was scheduled to make his promotional debut in May, however, he withdrew from the fight due to an injury.

Nelson (23-16) will be looking to snap a two-fight losing streak. He was most recently knocked out in the first round by Sergei Kharitonov.

Nelson and Cro Cop's fight will be a rematch of 2011's UFC 137; Nelson won by first-round TKO.

Also scheduled for the card is a heavyweight title eliminator between former champion Vitaly Minakov and Cheick Kongo. In addition, Bellator will be holding an event the night before at Mohegan Sun, headlined by Matt Mitrione vs. Kharitonov.
 

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bellator puttin on the HW fights. actually great fights everywhere. thank you lord for bellator! nice to have a wcw with my wwe.

hunt & barnett really need to come over to bellator. all their old buddies are here.
 

CLINTK9

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daley vs venom
minakov vs kongo
cro-cop vs nelson

dam great card already no matter what the other fights are.
 

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They were lined up to fight not to long ago but something happened ...i just remember Roy talking about CroCop on Steroids and Mirko saying he was gonna kick the fat off Roys Belly
 

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I just don't want to see either of these guys fight anymore. Crop was shot YEARS ago and keeps fighting. Roy is pretty much done and is just absorbing unnecessary damage at this point.........
 

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Here is a video of Mirko twitching like crazy 8.5 years ago. There is a gif of him twitching much much worse but I can't find it anywhere right now: