36-year-old Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, who suffered back-to-back knockouts in his last two fights, announced this week on a live video chat on the Croation sports website Gol.hr that he will finish out his UFC contract in Vegas on October 29 vs. Roy Nelson.

“I’ve had no contact with Dana White and have not re-negotiated with the UFC. I agreed to my next fight and that’s it. I can now exclusively confirm that I will fight my last UFC fight October 29 in Las Vegas against Roy Nelson.”

“I am happy that I managed to rehabilitate my injury. I received a few injections to the knee. It is an unpleasant procedure. They take your blood and separate parts of it using a a centrifuge and then inject [the plasma rich platelets] into the knee to stimulate cartilage regeneration. This knee was destroyed, but I managed to repair it. I felt terrible pain, and now twice a week I’m doing exercises with physiotherapy. ”