I wouldn’t really say humble. He showed the arrogance that every world class athlete has to have (and yes, he is a world-class athlete). But I found it pretty hard to disagree with anything he said.

it’s the mental game, you’re right on PW (as usual). If you don’t have that certain swagger and confidence, you will lose. GSP’s first fight against Hughes is a good example, he said he was fighting an idol and in awe, it’s tough to fight like that. Now look, we have an unstoppable WW champion!

What about his whole “my leg broke in half, i was an alcoholic, i was on drugs, blah blah blah” excuse. They still don’t explain why he was a $hitty fighter who got trashed all over the cage by now M-1 announcer Ian Freeman. Anyways Mir sucks, Kongo of all people will expose him.

Hear,hear!

Mir is quoted by the paper saying: “In the first fight back, I kind of fooled myself into getting back into shape. For this match, I have been more consistent in the gym and also fixed a few things I felt needed fixing in my game, and I feel I am a better fighter with those changes. Right now, I’m taking my training more serious, my sessions are more successful. My leg did bother me after the injury (from motorcycle accident), but I can’t make any excuses.”

I don’t hate Mir, but I have never been a fan of his and have always thought he was overrated, the beatdown he got from Lesner was no surprise to me and quite a few others. I said he would get a major beatdown and that will be the begining of his losing streak when he fights genuine top level fighters in that division. He beat Lesner the first time because of Lesners inexperience, there was no way it was going to happen again. Expect him to get another beating from Kongo and whoever he fights after that.

I don’t think Kongo has a chance ade outside the octagon Mir is a arrogant dick head that you either like or hate but inside the octagon he has great tools and is a great fighter to many fan’s judge a fighter by what they say and not what they do in all sports. I don’t like who he is outside the ring myself but I like his style in the octagon and one of the fan’s that believe his NOG trashing was no fluke. UFC give us NOG and Mir 2 and let’s see who’s right as this is clearly a debate fan’s want settled with proof.

All i haft to do is read the title of thios and just shake my head…..watching miguel torres fights is almost sumthing i cant do jsut because of how pro miguel mir is and now hes bashing joe …..the judges obviously agreed with joe rogan, same with me

I don’t like Mir, but I can’t argue with what he said in this interview.

Mir is a RIDICULOUS homer when he calls fights. When he can remember their names.

Off Topic

LOL, Shane Carwin’s not content with bad mouthing Brock he’s now bad mouthing Fedor too. This guy’s gotta learn to keep it shut till he actually achieves something himself!

http://www.mmabay.co.uk/Story%2002518.html

Damn prick. Brock will shut him up good at 106.

wow , mir even said he didnt even watch the ppv and hes talkin bout this, and the staph was why nog lost…get real with it mir the rematch is coming

Amen to that Alpha!

Mir will get smashed by Kongo and then submitted by Noguiera if the rematch comes. And I really hope Noguiera breaks his arm when that happens, finally making it clear how overrated Mir is.

Mir will own Kongo skope then hopefully we get to see a rematch!

hahaha

Boy did I enjoy those Fedor comments! Sounds like what most of us have been saying on Mania.

 Hate Mir all you want boys, he’s f’n right and you all know it. Kongo, you’re next.

This is a similar situation to Serra/GSP 1…people kept hounding GSP about what was going wrong prior to that fight so he finally spoke up about the circumstances that were affecting his training coming into the fight and then Serra took offense to it. Nog didn’t say anything about the staph or knee injury until the media started to drill into why he didn’t look like he normally looked in most of his fights and now Mir is taking offense.

Murr is a whining lil bitch. The End.

mir sucks,and he will prove it.

I’m telling you Mir is going to make his critics look pretty foolish.

i think he is going to make his nuthugging fans look foolish when he can’t back up all the hit he talks.

Kongo would be in the title picture if not for the fact that he’s a functional retard. He has to know that he has zero ability to wrestle/grapple, yet he chose to go to the ground with both Herring and Brown Pride. He will do the same thing against Mir — knock him down, then go to the ground where Mir will take his arm home.

he is going to make you look foolish puck.

yuo will all look foolish when the Kongo/Mir fight doesnt happen and is scratched for asn immediate rematch with Big Nog,.,..hOWEVER, i DONT think Mir would even accept a rematch..he would duck it by saying he is insulted, and would turn the fight down like the bitch he is!

lol, wow, we will look foolish because of a rescheduled or cancelled fight???

and after all the talk of Nog being hurt and basically dismissing Mir’s win, I seriously doubt he’ll be turning any fight down! i don’t know who will win, but will be excited if ur right (about a rematch) John!

Nog would dominate, and saying the truth is not dismissing… fact is that you should want to beat your opponent at that opponents best day, Mir makes a big deal out of it..

nog will kick that punks ass, nog should ask for mir before lesnar.

F’n Murr doesn’t deserve a rematch, but I’m all for it. Finally stup!d trolls like punk head, will be ridiculize forever on this site.

Mir got Ko’ed by Cruz…Nuff said! he isnt good! get it through your skulls!

FYI: Its ok for us keyboard warriors to bad mouth Fedor…but for a fighter like mir, to badmouth such a classy fighter like Fedor who doesnt say a single bad word about anyone, is just classless! When Mir accomplishes 1/10 0f what Fedor has accomplished them he can speak the gODS name!

amen to that Alpha…punk head is trolling on this site for quite a while now..and he will be ridiculed for the rest of his life after the mir/kongo fight…well, he always have a choice to change screen name like a lil b*tch

LOL and how about you gaara are you sticking your neck on the line for Kongo?

Hey, Beaver(pu$$y), stfu and go jerk off your co-worker Puck Head!

After listening to the interview (i bashed him earlier based on Kevin’s comments) I realize how much more i hate fn Mur. How dare he speaks Nog’s name or doesn’t speak it. God I hope Kongo smashes him or at least he wins a DQ due to trademark nut shots from the parisien.

John, Mir didn’t bad mouth your precious Fedor. He just told it like it is, stop crying.

for the first time ever i agree with mir. fedor needs to forget his stakes inm-1 and fight in the ufc next year. people need to stop making excuses for nog everyone knows he was in terrible shape for the mir fight just let him fight on and lastly randy couture is a legend

Funny how Mir never had a problem with Rogan making excuses for HIM. Rogan repeatedly stated during the Mir/Nog fight that Mir wasn’t the same fighter after the motorcycle accident and it affected his performance. Now when the shoe’s on the other foot, Mir cries like a baby.

Kongo is going to smash Mir, and hopefully we won’t have to hear any more self-promotional delusions for Mur the Magnificent.

I assume Wandy and Anderson my work computer does not let me on Facebook if so sweet then the winner of Marquardt & Henderson!!

yeah Kevin, thats good news for Vandy….He would get murdered by Ando

Silva only has a few fights on his contract and if he is going to retire they need to be against top contenders only. Dana is still stating that he will get Silva and Machida to fight if they have not lost by the end of the year?

That sucks, kev. Not a good news at all.

The Silva-on-Silva crime would have been fun, but let’s face it, it’s not a competitve match and a waste of one of Anderson’s last three fights. Plus, Wand would have had to beat a couple of top 185’ers to get there, and that’s by no means a sure thing.

Puck Head I am not a major fan of Nog, but when he fought Mir, he was even worse than he was aginst Herring and Sylvia. He was a complete joke and based on that I was having a go at John for ages about how Randy was going to destroy him. We all know what happened in that fight. The Nog in the Randy fight was completely different fighter to the one who fought Mir. Mirs striking was about as impressive as Matt Hamil’s, and Nog was on another planet. As much as I may dislike a fighter, unlike a lot of fans I will give credit where credit is due no matter who it is, but I really cannot give Mir credit for his performance becuase of Nogs zero performance. The only people I can see being truly impressed are his fans and the fans who thought Koschecks win over Sanchez was impressive. Also there are still fans who continue with this UFC v Pride thing who are quite happy that Nog lost wether they like Mir or not. I like MMA period Pride, UFC, Affliction (may they rest in peace) it doesn’t matter to me.

Yea well, it downgrades his victory; so can’t blame him from a business perspective. In reality though, it is what it is, Nog looked 100% better in his fight with Couture and he looked like the walking dead against Frank. Nog wins that fight almost every time imo unless he comes in out of shape and injured. Which is exactly what happened when Frank put him away. As a fighter though, I can understand him wanting to stay positive on his performances and wanting to maintain that confidence. He can’t start downgrading himself either.

Totally agree with your Nog fight analysis.

God that I hate that Stup!d irrelevant f8ck! John said it perfectly the other day…“Mir is TRASH who is just the ultimate opportunists and he has the ballz to actually have an ego..hahaha KLOWN! The Ultimate oppotunist! He reminds me of a WWE klwon, who runs into the ring and pins an opponent that was just Ko’ed by a steel chair!”
The ultimate opportunists.

whats wrong with that? #1 did he know Nog was hurt? #2 we r all oportunists in one way or another, at least us “alpha males” are.
If you see an opportunity to advance your portfolio, whether it be an illegal tip or a hunch, you take it. If you see a hot piece of ass really drunk at a club (I mean the type you dream of fucking) and she’s all over you, are you gonna say “no sweatie, you’re drunk?” I could go on. I’m a firm believer if you step into the cage, onthe field or on the court, you have no excuse! NO ONE is 100% when in competition, true “warriors” persevere.
That all said, would Nog beat Mir the second time around, maybe, hopefully we will get to see it!

It doesn’t matter what he said, cause those weren’t excuses those were facts that Joe stated..

roberto, you’re under the impression that excuse means it’s a lie, thats not accurate. An excuse would be like you slapping your wife (I know you wouldn’t) and then telling her it was because she got home late. You weren’t lying, but justifying your actions.

Mir felt like Rogan was making excuses for certain fighters (Nog) when every fighter has an excuse for being unable to perform at 100%. It’s part of being a fighter.

let’s give gsp a break for his boring responses to questions due to language barrier..at least he does not use an interpreter and has gone from almost no english..to almost holding his own in interviews..(albeit a wee bit dull)..but i find that mir contradicts himself in this interview..like..i will take any fight..except randy..or a fight i could easily win…well, if ya don’t fight the person, how are you gonna know you’d beat him..every fighter has his day..
rogan did just state the fact that nog had staff, but yeah excuses are lame..but it was the announcer saying it..
plus..a fighter should fight anyone (hero or not..training partner or not) that’s their job..and what better way to prove yourself over someone you have respect for…or is it he is scared to get his ass handed to him by an old man.

every fighter could use an excuse, I agree, most don’t. On the flip side of this argument (to appease those who disagree with me), I don’t remember Nog brining this up, only others have, so i don’t feel like Nog ever used it as an excuse. This to me makes it worse, it’s like when BJ had his rib busted while beating hughes, he never brought it up, but others did. why? if a fighter isn’t making the excuse, why do others find it necessary to?

lol, hey, that’s what I’m saying to drunk chicks “"no sweatie, you’re too drunk”. Damn I’m gonna need to change my screen name now. I’m not the good guy to comment on this kev. I’m a firm believer that you can find more than 1 fish in a pond. Anyway, I kind of agreed with what you’re saying that “NO ONE is 100% when in competition, true "warriors" persevere.” That’s exactly what Nog did. But like RoB said “those weren’t excuses those were facts” So Mr irrelevant got to know deep down that he got luky to capitalize on this opportunity when he had the chance. To go crying to Rogan’s comment prove that this egomaniac is a total garbage. He’s trying to do the same that he was doing before the Lesnar rematch. It’s his only way to bring a little relevancy in his previous win so peoples could say that he’s good. How pathetic.

No one made Nog fight, he fought because he believed he could still beat Mir. So do we hear anything about this staph infection if Nog wins, probably not. If BJ taps GSP does he still file a complaint about GSP greasing, if GSP beats Serra the first time does he tell everyone he didnt take him seriously. I dont care what the reason is, unless its a ref or judge there is only one reason you lose at an individual sport, because the person across from you out performs you.

Well we all heard about GSP’s torn muscle in his last dominating performance, but that doesn’t exactly support your argument does it. Easy to leave things out when they’re not to your advantage. I understand what you guys are saying about you shouldn’t make excuses, but I haven’t heard Nog making excuses. I don’t think it’s wrong for the announcer to bring up a fighters illness or injury. How many times did MJ get glorified for playing in the playoffs with the flu? I mean, people play with injuries all the time in sports and you hear about it. This is no different. If Tom Brady is playing with a broken rib in the playoffs and has a sub-par game you’re going to hear about it. If he’s playing against my team I’m not going to say, “Oh, that’s garbage, he shouldn’t have played then.” I’ll just say, “Sweet, glad my team is advancing. Sucks for them.” I mean I can kind of understand Mir being a little upset, but really it happens all the time and is a part of sports. Whining about it doesn’t do him any justice, especially when Helen Keller could tell Nog wasn’t anywhere close to 100%

I left it out because everyone knew GSP tore his groin because he commented about it in the corner in between rounds. That is why he was asked about it. Do you really think after he won the fight, and with no one knowing he tore his groin he would have said not only did I dominate him, but I also tore my groin in the 3rd round so suck on that WW division, no its time to get on top of my wife and drink some malt liquor.

No, GSP doesn’t talk like that in general. That’s obviously not what I was getting at so I don’t know why you’re trying to twist things around. Fact of the matter is, you can’t just simplify everything down to, “You just got outperformed” and say that’s all there is to it. That’s not always the way it is. There are a number of different circumstances that may or may not be in an athlete’s control that handicap’s them in competition. Acting like that’s not something that’s valid to discuss doesn’t make any sense.

If he was too injured to fight he shouldn’t have fought. Im not a Mir fan by anymeans, but I can’t stand people making excuses for fighters losses. When Chuck got Ko’d by Page everyone said Chuck was out partying before the fight and thats why he lost. Nog lost Mir won, no one said anything about Nog’s staph infection until after the fight. I was also kidding about the GSP comment, but he wouldnt have brought up the injury he was asked about it.

Alright, partying and being injured are completely different. Being out of shape because you’re partying is your fault, getting a staph infection isn’t. No one said anything about Nog being injured because no one knew about it until he showed up looking like the living dead. Nog fought because he’s a tough SOB and he did what the fans wanted. He hasn’t made excuses about it, and I don’t think anyone is out of line for bringing up the fact that he was injured. It’s nothing to get your panties in a bunch about.

Im not upset about Nog getting his ass beaten by a so called over-rated fighter. All his nuthuggers are, thats why everyone is talking about his staph infection. Why did he look so shitty in the Herring fight. He also looked horrible against Sylvia. Just to play devil’s advocate did any stop to think maybe Couture is just old and thats why Nog looked so good against him. Couture caught Nog flush a few times and didn’t even phase him. Randy’s never been the hardest puncher, but if you look at all his other fights when he hits someone flush it hurts them. My point is when you start making excuses for one fighter doesn’t everyone in turn get the same treatment. If you really wanted to you could make excuse’s for most of your favorite fighters loses and make a reasonable point. Instead I say let the results speak for themselves.

No, you’re mad because we’re talking about him having a staph infection. Since when do injuries during athletic competition not get talked about? Why is it out of line to state the obvious, which is that Nog was not anywhere near 100% that night? Your point about the punches he took from Couture just gives more validity to the point that he was in a weakened state. He has never been KO’d or even TKO’d except for that fight. Couture was hitting him just as hard if not harder than Mir. Why do you think that is? Oh yeah, the very reason that this whole conversation is happening in the first place. Joe Rogan stated the obvious, and Mir’s ego couldn’t take it. Tough for Mir, it’s part of sports, get over it. Really he should be thankful because odds are if Nog wasn’t hurt he wouldn’t be close to fighting for a title. Sometimes you need to just be thankful for what you have and keep your mouth shut.

There are many valid arguements to be made about Randy’s health in the Nog fight, but it only continues to feed excuses for poor performance’s. Nog got beat until he beats Mir, Mir will always claim he is better than Nog because he absolutly dominated him. For anyone to say that they know for fact without a doubt that Nog would smash mir or even beat him is just wishful thinking, the bottom-line is we wont know untill they fight again. Here’s to hoping it happens soon, and i would like Mir to win just to shut up all the nog fanboys. I would also like Nog to win so he could fight lesnar, so I’ll just bet on whoever the underdog is.

I haven’t heard anything about Randy’s health but whatever. I mean I would like to hear these “many valid arguments”, but I’m assuming they’re largely imaginary. I haven’t said Mir would get dominated in a rematch or anything like that. All I’m saying is that the fact he had a staph infection that hospitalized him obviously factored into the fight. I like Nog, but am by no means a “Nog fanboy”. I will however be shocked if they rematch and it goes anything like the first match.

and by the way Drew mir will forever claim he is better than nog by ducking couture which nog demolished with only the UFC nog

gaara have you not realized why no one backs you up after you back them up? I don’t want to hurt your feelings but you need to become a man and debate on your own it’s time you stop hiding behind others such as Dice here and come up with your own ideas and your own debates little man. I would like to see the day when you can start and finish your own arguements gaara you have heart but you need your own voice.

Great post beaver

He only implied the comments were about his fight with Nog.

He’s definatley implied that his poor performances after coming back were a result of that accident.

See the pre fight talk/countdown show before his fight with Nog and same before his first fight with Brock.

I thought they hyped it by saying the accident and substance abuse, then mir said yeah I wasn’t in peak condition, but I don’t remember him saying that was why he lost, just that it was a bad time for him, and again he was asked about it. I may be mistaken, but I don’t remember Mir ever bringing it up. I agree that staph affected Nog and am a nog fan, but I do agree, they harped on it way too much. set up a rematch and we will see who the better man is! I think it is a great fight regardless!

Guess I took it as “Before I was coming off an injury, couldn’t perform at 100% and thats why I lost. Now I’m healthy and performing up to my abilities, so I wouldn’t lose those fights again.”

could be O damn, but also, he got into the cage when he was told he’d never walk right again, gotta respect that. Thats hard work are perseverance at its best. My point is EVERY fighter that steps into the cage is injured or not at 100%, so in my mind, if you step in there to fight, thats it, the best man THAT NIGHT wins. anything can happen in this great sport, thats what rematches are for, to try to prove it was a fluke!

take a break kevin and go blow mir

Lol, Nog’s accident when he was younger was just as bad Kevin, so you gotta respect him just as much. And I’ve definitely heard Mir talk about how he was coming off the injury blah blah blah. And NOW he’s 100%; which is just like saying he wasn’t 100%-in other words an excuse, the EXACT same thing he’s complaining about. Sure, fighters are rarely 100% when they get in the cage, but they’re also rarely at 30% like Zombie Nog was when he fought Mir.

IMO Rogan was only calling a spade a spade…whether he should have or not is up to you guys as I’m indifferent…one thing for sure…NOG def was not his normal self that night

I agree diceman.

I agree too.

K-Dog we didn’t finish yesterday convo. I saw your reply but it doesn’t make sense, so we’ll have to finish that someday.

great points diceman!

Makes perfect sense to me chief. I thought you’d given up on it after i said we’ll agree to differ, then I check back this morning and you’d aimed another rant at me about an hour later lol.

Yeah, we’ll finish it someday.

lol, sorry buddy, I’m kind of stubborn, I want you to see things my way. My bad. I was joking though, it was making sense.

Kevin-

Add TRUTH to the number of trolls on your fan club.

School cannot start soon enough, brothers!

lol. by the way, diceman, you make some very good/valid points bro!

you are stubborn. I had an image of you tapping away on your keyboard with smoke coming out of your ears reading some of my posts lol.

sorry for leaving you out ojr, kevin can blow you after mir, everybody wins yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

lol, Nah, I way to lay back for that. I rarely get mad more than 15 min. Never happen with your posts, so your good.

Cheers pal.

Thanks Kevin, that’s why we come here to share our own two cents and get input from others. OJR’s comments on TRUTH-Truth!

TRUTH what a lovely person you are, you’ll make many friends on here with that attitude. Do everyone a favour pal and beat it!

? attakdog are you asking him for a hand job?

guys never believe me when I say I’m very open minded, but even though we disagree on this subject, you do make some great points. Why would I badger you for that, some guys are way to into their comments and never see the other side!

yes kevin your open mind goes with the open mouth

TRUTH, what are your thoughts on Murr?

he’s a self righteous jackass! he has excellent jits, but his stand up is overated, the man is delusional thinking he can stand with kongo only to worry about knees, his head will be in the stands in the first two mins! fedor would smash him, nog would sub him in a rematch!!

well, Alpha you heard it! TRUTH can strut relevance if asked to…and by the way that “open mouth” thing was sure funny as hell..lol

Yeah, it was. I’m sure kev did chuckled too. To be honest I’m impress by TRUTH, he make a lot of sense when he want to.

I don’t know, I don’t like or dislike anyone because of where they r from!!!

i don’t dislike mir i just think he is not a great fighter, maybe mid tier definetly not top10 imo.

I just think Mir is overrated but I don’t hate on him.

ahahahaha..yeah jenna’s been bed ridden alright..and by the pool and over a desk and in a car and by more than one person and…geez this could be a long post…

. . . And by various household objects, and when the pizza guy delivered her pizza but she didn’t have any cash, and when the plumber fixed her sink but she didn’t have any cash, and when the electrician changed her light bulb but she didn’t have any cash . . .

well in the post fight interview he was asked about the staph and he quickly said “and my torn knee too.” but he never brought up the staph on his own!

Nog didn’t make excuses, Rogan did for Nog. Thats why Mir responded to Rogan, not Nog.

That made me dizzy.

Or maybe some people fight for the same reason you go to work…to make money. Let’s be realistic, this IS a job and a business. These guys aren’t fighting for free just for the sport of it like it’s a Sunday softball league. It’s a big business that they’re getting paid big money for. Rampage just did the same thing by doing another season of TUF which was a monetary decision. Being known as the best fighter ever is something Mir will never have a chance at, so I don’t think he’s in position to tell someone like Fedor what he needs to prove.

Exactly!

I do not have a problem with Mir’s ranking. He is one of the best HW on the ground period. I feel that people want to diminish Mir’s skill due to his loss to Lesnar as nobody wants to admit Lesnar can beat a good HW. Mir was overrated, Randy was too old etc.

Nog is the best fighter Fedor has every faced and did beat him just as PH said above. There are many times fighters fight hurt, sick etc. If NOG was so sick he should not of fought. His people definitely should of had him postpone as a title shot was on the line.

The only problem I have with Mir is that he is too confident in his own abilities. Fighters need to be self actualized to win. He is a world class BJJ artist and wants to believe he is a world class striker. He should focus on being able to strike effectively enough to get people into position to work his BJJ

ignorance is a virtue for you I take it Alpha LOL.

!gnorant “Puck Head” telling me that I’m !gnorant…LOL

Priceless!

LMAO Alpah do you have anything to actually say or do you just agree or trash other peaples comments if you look at all your post here you jump aboard or critisize? Priceless LOL.

Lucky lil beav(women pubis area), my posts stays in mod so I’ll get back at ya another time.

Cool

Does Big Poopy have a steel plate in his arm from getting Murred?

Fedor is a great fighter introvert there is no question there but don’t get your panties tied in a knot when others believe he is not the best HW anymore. If Fedor would of signed with the UFC and won every fight there would be no debate same as if he lost you know it and I know it and that’s exactly why the UFC HW is better no would be argueing Rogers is the Best in the world and thats the truth.

Give zack a break, guys. This morning he figured out how to use google and looked up “Down’s Syndrome”. Now he knows why the other kids at fat camp were laughing at him, and that makes him angry. :-(

did i say something like that Beaver? or ur just putting words into my mouth…

I was replying to your comment it nested below your sorry I’ll make sure I put who I’m directing my comment to.