"This guy wants to fight again, and I owe him another fight," White said.
He expanded on the thought shortly thereafter:
"Do I think he should have retired? Yeah," White said. "But I don't think he's in one of these situations like Chuck Liddell, who needed to retire right then. He's a man, a grown man, and if he wants to continue to fight, that's his right. And he still has a fight with me."
There is no timetable for Mirko's return. He had mentioned that he would have liked to fight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 134 in Brazil, but that spot went to the last man Cro Cop lost to, Brendan Schaub. Cro Cop is coming off two straight knockout losses at the hands of Schaub and Frank Mir, and is just 4-5 in his UFC career.