Back in November, we introduced you to Beercup, a hybrid of mixed martial arts and soccer that mostly amounted to a bunch of weird dudes who wanted to punch each other using “soccer” as a reason to rent a local gym and throw down. It wasn’t the most successful execution of the idea — MMA + ??? = Profit — but it was a start.

The next attempt at hybrid sports comes from MMA legend Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and combines two of the things we love most in the world: MMA guys doing something other than MMA, and basketball players fighting. It’s MMA basketball, and while there don’t appear to be a lot of rules, it DOES involve lay-ups and tons of choking. So it’s either ‘MMA basketball’ or Pau Gasol visited Croatia.

Video is below.

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DREAM is a Japanese mixed martial arts organization, and noted badass/former UFC fighter Mirko Cro Cop was on the card for DREAM 6 in a match against Alistair Overeem. From MMA Mania’s recap:

Later on in the round Overeem landed at least three illegal knees to the groin — one of which wasn’t caught by the referee. After the last one Cro Cop was in obvious agony. The words that came out of Bas Rutten’s mouth when the bout was getting waived off and called a no contest will haunt men around the world for a long time: “We just got informed by Mirko Cro Cop’s corner that his right testicle is inside.”

Ugh.  That was me involuntarily shuddering.  Let’s pretend that when Rutten said Cro Cop’s testicle was “inside,” what he meant was “still inside his scrotum, just like it should be, and nothing is wrong whatsoever LA LA LA I can’t hear you!”

[Fight video here]

I remember when I was terrified of Mirko Cro Cop.  I probably still should be, but I'm still drunk from last night.  Here's the end of the fight he lost in a unanimous decision to Cheick Kongo last night in UFC 75:

In a related story, the movie Congo really sucks. It's just horrible – one expects more from a Michael Crichton vehicle.  Also, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson is still a badass. -KD