Frank Mir is calm, cool and collected a month out from his fight with Strikeforce HWGP winner, Daniel Cormier. Mir has been around for a long time, you see, and he isn’t that impressed by Cormier. How could you not be impressed by Cormier is what most people would ask, but for Frank Mir, his heavyweight showdown is just another in an extremely long list of fights. You may scoff at Mir’s scoffing, but when you think about who Mir has fought, I wouldn’t be that impressed by anyone anymore either. Just off the top of my head, Mir has fought Sylvia, Tank Abbott, JDS, Kongo, Roy Nelson, Brock twice, Shane Carwin and on and on. Seriously, the list goes on: don’t forget about his fight with Cro Cop, beating Big Nog twice, or his epic battle with Dan Quinn.
I guess I see where Frank Mir is coming from now, but come on, it’s still Daniel Cormier. This fight is huge for the heavyweight division.This is what Mir told MMA Fight Corner:
“I pretty much know the guy. He has extremely strong, efficient wrestling. I think he throws his hands pretty fast and without abandon. I don’t think he’s the most technical boxer in the world, I don’t think he even thinks he’s the most technical boxer in the world. He’s definitely not JDS, but who is? On the ground though, it really showed me, let’s face it, if I had the same guy on the ground fight would have ended pretty quickly. He wasn’t able to put the guy away through a lack of finishing abilities, through a lack of finishing moves. So that’s one thing that actually surprised me,”
“I thought he couldn’t finish Josh because of Josh’s abilities, but then I realized ‘No, he doesn’t really have much finishing ability’. He can catch you with a punch, let’s face it, every heavyweight over 200 pounds has that ability to finish a fight if he catches you. But you got to have the ability to finish with the submission, you know definitive ground and pound where you actually finish somebody off against the cage and it’s menacing. Not just finally the referee’s like ‘Well, you know, I guess the guy’s had enough. You really can’t put him away let me help end this fight for you.’”
