Frank Mir understands how the game is played.
When you want to make a name for yourself, like up-and-coming heavyweight slugger Todd Duffee, you target a "name" and talk the requisite trash until you get pens on paper. No problem. But when a certain line gets crossed, that's when the former UFC champ takes exception.
Mir talks to MMA Junkie Radio:
"I train to break bones and put people unconscious. At the end of the day, I know we have a referee in there and there's a point system, but this is fighting. This is me trying to dismember you and trying to hurt you and trying to completely crush the person in front of me. When Duffee says some of the things he's said, it reminds me that I need to practice going for that armbar and adjust that position and hold there. Instead of thinking what the judges are going to think for this fight, I've been going in thinking I don't really care what the judges say, about being on top or being in this position. I'm going for broke, and I want to make sure that this might be his last fight, that he's unhealthy afterward."
Mir also called Duffee a "coward" because he acts like a "dick" while simultaneously trying to downplay said dickery.
Who gets the last word won't be decided until they headline the UFC Fight Night 72 mixed martial arts (MMA) event on Weds., July 15, 2015 on FOX Sports 1 and UFC Fight Pass from inside the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California.
And not for nothing, but Mir is probably the last guy you want trying to break you.