{"id":137755,"date":"2015-04-16T02:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=137755"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:36:35","slug":"mirko-cro-cop-top-15-heavyweight1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/mirko-cro-cop-top-15-heavyweight1\/","title":{"rendered":"HE&#8217;S BACK! 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Upon further analyzation of the names that are on that list, maybe it isn&#8217;t so crazy that Cro Cop made the cut!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the newest heavyweight rankings below!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heavyweight Rankings:<\/strong> (Champions Cain Velasquez and Fabricio Werdum), Junior Dos Santos, Travis Browne, Stipe Miocic, Mark Hunt, Josh Barnett, Andrei Arlovski, Alistair Overeem, Ben Rothwell, Frank Mir, Roy Nelson, Antonio Silva, Matt Mitrione, Stefan Struve, Mirko Cro Cop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH! 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