Royal FC 1 - CroCop vs. Rizzo - Arlovski vs. Monson

http://www.imperiomma.com/royal-fc-debuts-in-february-with-cro-cop-vs-rizzo/

CroCop vs. Pedro Rizzo
Andrei Arlovski vs. Jeff Monson

The fight card has been postponed until March I guess. It says Ninja Rua is in talks about being on the card as well (coming out retirement?)

Those 2 fights alone are insane. Lets hope everything goes as planned. Would love to see both fights. Interested to see if Royal FC would match up the winners later on.

Crockpot sure is having a busy retirement

Its been 12 years but I finally think were going to see the full wrath of ADCC Cro Cop

Cro Cop has always had underrated Jiu Jitsu, but I think he'll beat Rizzo standing up, judging by how badly Fedor knocked Pedro out when they fought in June.




I like Rizzo, but I don't think fighting good strikers like Fedor and CC is the best choice for him right now career-wise.

I'm pretty excited for Arlovski vs. Monson though, I didn't expect Jeff to tap Alex Emelianenko in his last fight, very impressive. And Arlovski looked great against Big TIm.

* Edited at 01.01.2013, 6:58 PM ET *

Is this on Tapology yet?

Arlovski vs. Monson is going to be sweet. I can't take seeing Rizzo get knocked out again so I pray for a ADCC Cro Cop sub because a Cro Cop LHK would kill Rizzo.

damn all the way till march, so far the begining of 2013 sounds like an insane set of events, lets hope the 2012 injury faze is over and all these great fights happen, would love to see cro cop arlovski lets do hope they pair the winners together or at least another promotion does

i'm really skeptical about those fights actually happening, i haven't see any updates on this since october.. and i read somewhere that Arlovski was injuried in his last fight... so i don't know, i would wait till some sort of confirmation before adding this.

Hey guys, i'm the owner of ImperioMMA and posted this news.
I know one of the owners of the event and it's pretty sure that everything is being postponed, the fights will still happen but nobody's sure when, the guy keeps telling me to wait more and more because they couldn't get a deal with a TV channel here in Brazil, but i think that until next month they will clarify everything, when they do i will bring it here to you all.
Let's hope it happens, i'm not so excited to Cro Cop vs Rizzo because i think it will be an easy KO for Cro Cop, but Arlovski vs Moonson will be amazing!

PS: The Murilo Rua talks was about a fight of him against Ikuhisa Minowa, the Minowaman. Last info i got was that Minowa is in the card, but Ninja is out. Let's hope to see Minowa against a good fighter in the event.

@imperio welcome to the site - stick around!

Guess Cro Cop was just sick of losing, he never wanted to retire. Arlovski vs Monson should be intriguing. Arlovski has been on a nice little win streak.

Nice. I love this old guard matches and Arlovski has always been one of my favorite fighters to watch.

Any news on if/how this will be broadcasted?