If you didn’t get a chance to watch the entire UFC 100 pre-fight press conference, you can check it out at Bloody Elbow.

More videos and interviews from Fox Fight Game and Cagewriter including Dana’s thoughts if Thiago Alves misses weight and his agitated response to all the UK fans who are bitching at him on Twitter for not getting UFC 100 on a bigger platform across the pond after the jump.

One of the topics brought up was Mirko ‘Cro Cop’. Despite reports of Lorenzo personally flying to Croatia to meet with Mirko, which is likely resulting in Cro Cop fighting Junior dos Santos at UFC 103, Dana hasn’t said much about it since news broke immediately following UFC 99 that he had screwed the UFC to sign with DREAM. That changed today though. Dana doesn’t blame Mirko for what happened, instead he focused his anger on DREAM.

“I hope so,” White said when asked whether Cro Cop was returning to the UFC fold. “Like I said at that press conference in Germany, he and I had a deal; I think he’s going to honor the deal.”

“I’ve said this many times, and I’ll say it again: there’s some crooked (expletive) that goes on in Japan,” he said. “They’re all crooked; there’s some sneaky (expletive) going on over there. That’s always a big problem. These guys that are in the fight business over there, for my Mexican friends, ‘no bueno.’”

As for the dos Santos fight, while Dana said he hope it happens, he wouldn’t confirm, so it looks like it’s hinging on whether they can actually get Mirko to put pen to paper this time.

Moving on, Ariel Helwani working for Versus today has a few more tidbits for us.

Guess what Dana plans to do if UFC 100 breaks 1.5 million pay-per-view buys?

“If we do 1.5 million pay-per-view buys, I will do a backflip off the Mandalay Bay, and I’ll live. Believe me (laughs). … For us to do a million pay-per-view buys or anywhere near it, it’s amazing.”

Dana also confirmed they will be doing a “Primetime” series, like they did for GSP vs Penn 2, for the Rampage-Rashad fight. Between that and TUF 10, the UFC is trying to squeeze every last cent out of that fight.

And speaking of TUF, the UFC wants to a season centered around Mexican fighters like they did for the UK guys in season nine.

Oh, and the EA MMA ban, Dana confirmed that too in a round about way.

Ariel has lots more at Versus, so be sure to head over there and check it out.

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Gatorade Canada has released a new video ad in honor of Georges St. Pierre’s upcoming UFC 100 fight. Pretty sweet.

The fighters are in Vegas getting ready for their big fights on Saturday night. Here’s a few pre-fight interviews from Telegraph.co.uk and Versus. For some reason, I can only put one Versus interview in the post, so you’ll have to catch the rest on their site.

FFG’s Mike Straka learns a little boxing technique from amateur boxer Amber Roberson (!) above and takes a tour of the new TapouT Training Facility in Vegas after the jump.

Weird, huh? At first, yes, but it’s the prelims so who cares, right? Well, think again. Because according to dos Santos, the UFC pulled him off the card to put him in the UFC 103 main event against none other than Mirko ‘Cro Cop’. From Portal das Lutas via Gracie Mag:

“I think I’ll fight September 19. They took me off the August 29 show,” he said, also announcing he will no longer be facing the same opponent. “My opponent’s changed. I’ll probably face Cro Cop. If I beat him I’ll be in really good standing. If that’s truly the case, I’m guaranteed on the main card and in the main event of the evening. If I were to fight now it wouldn’t be on the main card,” he said to Portal das Lutas, GRACIEMAG.com partner site.

“To me it’s incredible. When they asked me if they could change the fight date I was a bit bothered, because I wanted to fight right away. I’ve been away for some time now. But the Fertitta brothers asked me and I accepted. After that I found out it would be against Cro Cop and was overjoyed. It’ll be a big opportunity in my career. Lots of good things have happened in my life and this is one more. I’m going to make the most of it,” he finished.

Obviously, if this is true, which it looks like it is, talks between Lorenzo and Cro Cop must have progressed quite nicely.

Not to get ahead of myself here, but Dos Santos is pretty solid match-up for Cro Cop I’d say. He’s a young up-and-comer who possesses the tools to end the fight at any moment. Whether or not he can do that against Cro Cop, who is a much more experienced and seasoned striker, is the question, but it will likely depend on which Mirko shows up. The good news for the Croatian is dos Santos isn’t one of the UFC’s giant heavyweights, so he won’t have to worry about being bullied around the cage. As long as Cro Cop maintains distance and keeps his hands up, I’m thinking it’s his fight to lose.

By the way, if this fight does in fact headline UFC 103, I seriously hope they find Rich Franklin a good opponent or there’s a co-main event we haven’t heard about yet. Swick vs Kampmann, Koscheck vs Trigg and Griffin vs Franca are nice, but these four fights alone make for a pretty weak card.

Update: MMA Junkie is confirming that Junior dos Santos will fight Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ at UFC 103. They couldn’t confirm whether it is the night’s main event however.

The UFC is doing another behind the scenes multicast for UFC 100 this weekend except this time we get to see firsthand if the Octagon girls actually pay attention to the fights or just sit there picking at their nails or whatever it is girls do when they’re bored.