Frank Mir may want to coach Brock Lesnar on how to fight better after UFC 100

Mir’s cockiness will be his downfall.

Mir could help improve Brock’s jits considerably and once Lesnar works on his footwork and submissions he will be near enough unbeatable.

However, I’m sick of Mir bitching about Brock getting a title shot, the only reason Frank got an interim title shot and a stint on TUF was because he beat Lesnar, if he was that unworthy then why did Frank get all of these opportunities from a win. Before then he looked like shit, getting destroyed by guys like Vera and Marcio Cruz and putting on poor performances in general, so he should show Lesnar some gratitude as that fight made Mir relevant in the HW division for the first time since his motorbike accident. And why did he have to bash Lesnar’s coaches, that was very disrespectful.

I’m really hoping that Brock shuts the doubters up by smashing Frank at 100. If he keeps himself composed this time then he should be able to pull it out, I like Brock’s chances standing but on the ground Mir will school him.

I agree 100%

How can you guys respect what Mir is saying? To say that you want to coach your opponent is really disrespectful if you ask me. NOt to mention bashing your opponents coaches is one of the most classless things I have heard in the sport in a long time.

You dont hear Brock saying, “after the fight I want to teach Mir how to wrestle”…I mean this is one of the most disrespectful things i have ever heard to build up a fight. Mir is just a freaking EgoManiac….At least egoManiacs like Hughes have accomplished enough to have an ego…but Mir? come on man!

To me this is very disrespectful. Brock wants Mir so bad, but does anyone actually think that Mir looks forward to fiughting Brock again? I dont think so!

David W-S: makes a great point. Mir should appreciate Brock making him relevant again. Beating brock fast tracked Mir to a title shot. Prior to getting a title shot against Nog, Mir was on a measly 2 fight winning streak beating a c-level fighter like Hardonk, and a fighter in Brock with 1 fight under his belt….Had Brock not had such a big name,. Mir would realistically still be about 3 wins away from a title shot.

I just cant stand Mir. His jits is above average, but I dont know excactly how good it is because he never competed in ADCC, and he hasnt faced anyone good on the ground in mma. He faced Cruz, and Nog but those fights didnt go to the ground.

Without Brock, Mir would still be NOTHING!!!!

I agree bashing coaches is pretty classless but to be honest some coaches deserve to be bashed. For example I really didn’t like the training that Kimbo got. He didn’t seem to improve at all with any aspect of his game. His ground game was weak, his striking was amatuer and overall he didn’t improve one ounce after traing with Bas. If Mir is seeing the same thing with Brock I could see why it would be such a problem. So the point is he’s saying he’s making small mistakes when at his skill and ability level he should be able to do a lot better than this. He’s complimenting Brocks potential while at the same time dissing his coaches. I guess though we should all be very pissed that Mir isn’t always respectful and I see your point cause Lesnar is an all around class act. Mir is way into himself no doubt but I don’t think you can say Lesnar made him relavant. I think a weak HW division and him being a past title holder may have had something to do with it. Everyone in the HW division is becoming relavant after beating a few cans, its ridiculous and to be talking trash about Mir is even more ridiculous. He took his win with Brock and made the best out of it by beating Nog. Now he’s going to face Brock again win, and shut his pundits up. John you hate way to much. Mir by purple nurple!

Yeah – except that he didn’t finish his training w/Bas, and in fact Bas was so disgusted w/Kimbo for not listening to him, he won’t work with him anymore. It wasn’t Bas, it was Kimbo. He refused to listen to Bas.

I don’t believe that bs for one second. The entire time Bas was talking about how Kimbo was improving and we would see it eventually… and how all this stuff takes time. Kimbo went and got laid out by a nobody and Bas had to back peddle to save his name. Bas was just as much about the benjamins baby as Kimbo so get over it.

I dont hate Mir, I just dont think he is very good, and having him AND Brock as champions make a mockery of the UFC HW division.
Difference is, I actually think Brock can become Dominant, where Mir is what he is!

Mir has been in the game a long time, and hasnt managed to prove ANYTHING. hE NEVER EVEN FACED GREAT COMPETITION. sure he beat Nogueira if you want to call that guy that lost Nogueira, i dont really care how that fight was viewed, it was trash either way.
Brock had 1 more mma fight then ALL of US when Mir beat him, so how imoressed should I really be over that win?

I dont think Mir can beat:
Fedor
Arlovski
Barnett
werdum
Herring
Couture (who I cant stand)
Alistar
Carwin
dos Santos
brock

Out of all the names i listed, if Mir fought all those names, he might win 3 fights, and thats being Generous! Sorry, but thats not how I picture my UFC Heavyweight champion!

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I mean come on, He would get EXPOSED by a guy like werdum, who wont be holding titls anytime soon, so why should Mir?

Can someone smash this guy already. God i can’t stand him. I believe john has already covered the core ideas as to why “Mur” sucks. What i have worse than anything is that they’re gonna use his stoppage of Nog to make him into a god. It’s times like these that make me wish captain paycheck was the first to stop Nog instead of this hyped up can.

Yeah, I am not looking forward to how they will hype up Mir with his win over Nog…As if that was really NOgueira out there!

Antoni Hardonk would have destroyed Nog in the shape he was in that night, so how can I put much value on Mir beating Nog?

When Mir fought Brock Lesnar, Brock had 1 fight on his resume more then all of us…….Beating Brock, who was 1-0, got him a title shot, yet he complains that Brock got a title shot?

I cant stand this “smug Bugz Bunny” Look alike!!

Hughes = Smug Chipmunk
Mir = Smug Bugz Bunny!

lol,whats up doc?hopefully Brock will smash him back into his little rabbit hole.

I’m simply curious as to how both of these guys’ egos will fit in the cage at the same time?

they want have to be in there long,because Mur’s will be flattened within the first couple of minutes

The real deal is that the ref needed to help Mir the first time they fought. That fight should of been called instead of going back to their feet for a back of the head strike. They had already decided that Mir was going to be on TUF and couldn’t have a newbie beating him in before the show was about to start. So they gave him a fight against Brock who they didnt mind see loosing in his first UFC fight. That fight gave Mir more exposure than anything he had ever done before as more people watched it because of Lesnar than any other of his fights. I really, really hope Brock smashes Mir. Mir is great on the ground so you never know but without the ref helping him this time and Lesnar being more experienced and getting great training now hopefully Mir will be shut up for good.

ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! I thught that this was obvious, but I guess not.

Mir has said a thousand times all that stuff about how the fight starts long before you enter the cage. You have to get into your opponents mind. Some guys lose before the bell rings….blah, blah, blah.

This is Mir doing his best to cast doubt into the heart of Lesnar.

He knows Brock is bigger, stronger, faster. So when he sits down to think about how to beat him and asks himself “what advantages do I have that I can exploit?” One, is that he holds a vicotory over Brock. The other is that he has more experience. The final is that he is more technical. So if he can put that in the back of Brock’s mind, maybe he can gain a small edge. Plus, I think Mir is afraid of getting bum rushed and Donkey Kong pounded. So if he can call out brock on his technical skills, maybe Brock will apporach the fight more technically and that serves Mir.

Mir could simply say, “Brock sucks technically,” but he’s a little smarter than that so an offer to coach him one day might get the job done a little better.

Let’s not forget that Mir talked a big game before fighting Nog and then admitted to the world after the fight that he was afraid. He showed a ton of respect to Nog.

Mir isn’t as smug as many of you think. He believes in the mental part of the game.

I love Mir. I think he loses this fight, but I’m still a fan. I think if he were dumber he wouldn’t get all the accusations of being smug.

I’d posit that this is an area where Lesnar’s WWE experience helps him—he knows that trash talk is all scripted, full of crap, and done to promote the fight.

Were I Mir, I’d be a douchebag. Also, I’d try puffing Lesnar up instead and making yourself out to be the underdog, but Frank doesn’t have the psychology to pull that off.

Well said Punch, that is exactly what Mir is doing.

haha yeah. i mean i personally like mir. hes cocky but i think he does it to get a rise out of people b.c of the way he grins when hes talking trash. i mean mir has never disrespected anyone. its funny how he talks shit, he builds the person up just to break them down, its like hes talking shit in the most respectful way possible which i find funny and is why i like him.

i like brock too, ill admit at first he acted like he was still in wwe but hes come out of that.

my prediction… mir by experience once again, two years from now noone will beat brock lesnar.

Funny, I haven’t heard any boxing analysts refer to Manny Paquiao as “old” lately. I must have missed it.

Thirty is old for tennis, and it’s getting there for soccer. In any other sport it is the middle or back end of your physical prime.

I think it matters in the lighter weights cos you have to cut weight, lesners has to cut something like 25 pounds so i think it might prove a factor

While the issue of cutting weight came up I have a question. The other day I was thinking about how when Brock and Randy fought the weigh-in was a week before the fight(or was I really high for a week?). Anyways, if it was a week before the fight, how often does that happen? Seems like most of the time weigh-ins are day before. I was just wondering what you guys thought about that.

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