The 35-year old admitted to Croatian newspaper Jutarnji that his head wasn’t in the game during his fight with dos Santos, which led to a loss via verbal submission after sustaining a cut to his eyelid that impaired his vision.

“Dos Santos cut my eye lid. Blood and sweat gave me a narrow field of vision,” he told the newspaper. “I stood like a blind man, I’m in a cage. At one point at the end of the fight I thought the referee was my opponent. Later it turned out that I cut the inside wall of my eyelid. In the locker room I was given four sutures.”

The fighter admitted it also could have been his lack of motivation that led to his third round loss.

“I’ve been living a military life for 20 years now. Getting up at 6 am and working hard physically until 8 p.m. I want a normal life. I’m entering a cage and thinking about fishing in Privlaka. You can’t win that way. Maybe I should have quit after I won the [PRIDE FC] Open Weight Grand Prix.

“Maybe the ones who have said that I’m done are right,” he continued. “Obviously, I can’t break my mental block in the Octagon. I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me, my body is broken down. I’ve been worn out.”

Cro Cop has yet to make an official announcement regarding his future in MMA. Stay tuned to FightLine.com for further developments in this story.