<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>“I have a lot of respect for Cro Cop and I like him,” stated White. “He wants to win the UFC title really bad. He is going back to Japan and taking some tune-up fights and wants to come back and prove himself in the UFC by the end of the year.”</div> Source: http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templa...08&zoneid=2 Good news that Mirko isn't another Dana White-hating fighter who is going to turn around when he gets to Japan and badmouth the UFC, although leaving does make a Fedor vs. Cro Cop II fight possible.
And I think we know that if Mirko just wanted out Dana wouldn't have anything nice to say. I believe him when he says this.
Dana doesn't hold anything back, obviously he'd like to have him back and fighting like he did in Pride.