Hmm if you want to cause a good impression on a crowd new to mma, and because the sport seems too violent you shouldnt have wanderlei speak. he is not in that bad condition, but because his english suck, and because he is very well known and has lost a good amount of fights being brutally knocked out, people will feel sorry for him, associating his bad english with brain damage. ok i dont know if he has brain damage or not but in portuguese he talks very well and is very fluid. but the perception he makes when he talks in english to someone new in mma and seen his last fights is very negative if you want to make mma mainstream in countries like germany.

I think Dana said Mirko was still flying in from Croatia for the phone conference call: http://mixedmartialartvideos.com/ufc-99-conference-call-with-mirko-cro-cop-audio/

Not sure which day that was tho.