My childhood revolved around Mike Tyson dominating the heavyweight boxing scene like no other champion before him. Kids would often threaten to sign one another up to fight Mike Tyson as a defense mechanism when they ran out of relatives they could name who would have their back in a hypothetical suburban scuffle (we had vivid imaginations and some of us were fresh off of seeing Braveheart). None of us were boxing historians; Iron Mike was all we knew. Today, kids fear a heavyweight MMA fighter who’s 30-40 lbs bigger than Mike Tyson and packs the same amount of dynamite in his fists that structural engineers used to demolish large-scale suspension bridges. Anyone brave enough to fight Junior Dos Santos probably read the Darwin Awards and assumed it was fictional, but Frank Mir told MMA Uncensored that if he doesn’t get the chance to fight JDS while someone else does, he’ll be pissed…

I feel that I have the most credentials, going into it. I think I have the longest winning streak of the heavyweights that were already posted on that card to fight. As far as what the rankings are, I feel I have the most credentials going in, and I'm motivated to do so. It was funny, a couple of months ago, when I was training for this, I had been training for a five-round fight to begin with. Reason being that Cain Velasquez is a cardio freak, and if something were to happen with the title shot, I wouldn't want it to be something where I had to turn it down because I wasn't prepared for it. I mean, obviously I'd feel a little slighted (if someone else were picked to fight dos Santos). But, both those guys (Hunt and Velasquez) are great fighters. I would never be mad at them for taking advantage of the situation. Would I be angry? Of course. I wouldn't wanna be at my house on the night that's announced. I would not be a happy individual. I would probably just stay away from my house for a couple of days.

Frank Mir is still slated to fight Cain Velasquez at UFC 146 but the UFC is still reserving hope that Alistair Overeem will still be able to compete as scheduled, regardless of testing 14x higher levels of testosterone than the average man. Only the Mayans know if this fight was ever meant to go down, or if Frank Mir getting pissed is ultimately the reason the world came to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. [Source]

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+37 # synthsis 2012-04-13 08:55

#RALLYFORMARKHUNT

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+18 # Guest 2012-04-13 09:03

Mir is right he should be the next in line after reem. I`m a massive mir fan.

But come on, mark hunt winning the belt would be so much more epic!

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+31 # Tom Hardy 2012-04-13 09:04

#RALLYFORHENDO

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+20 # boloblack 2012-04-13 09:07

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MIR: I would not be a happy individual. I would probably just stay away from my house for a couple of days.

LOL. He makes it seem like his wife/GF and kids are all for the #RALLYFORMARKHU NT.

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+13 # JRen 2012-04-13 09:08

I am a Mir fan. He breaks limbs like nobody's business. One of the best submission games out there, but c'mon, everyone knows Mir has a glass jaw. He can't take a good shot and it's as simple as that. He has to get a hold of a limb to break it and he would have to eat some brain scrambling Dos Santos shots to do it. I'm not willing to spent 49.99 to watch Dos Santos knock Mir out in 36.5 seconds. That's it. End of discussion.

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+7 # Guest 2012-04-13 09:10

Getting hit by any number of freight trains you'd call a heavyweight qualifies everyone as having a glass jaw.

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+14 # JRen 2012-04-13 09:21

I completely agree with you. You make a very valid point. Did you see how many shots Roy Nelson walked through from Dos Santos vs the very few less powerful shots Big Nog dropped Mir with. Dos Santos wouldn't make the same mistake as Big Nog. It would be good night Irene.

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+4 # Guest 2012-04-13 09:46

No one's necessarily disagreeing with the notion that Mir will get his block knocked off. But that shouldn't be a reason why someone is denied a title shot. So what if Roy/Hunt have heads made out of titanium-covere d rocks: if Mir deserves it, let him have his chance to avoid the punches long enough to take it to the floor. You know... the whole mixed martial arts, style vs. style thing.

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-7 # Joey Jo Jo 2012-04-13 09:52

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But that shouldn't be a reason why someone is denied a title shot.

Right and doing some light-contact sparring with Cro Cop for 3 rounds and getting your shit rocked by Big Nog suddenly qualify you to take on the best HW boxer?

Mir deserves shit.

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+8 # Guest 2012-04-13 10:19

Quoting Joey Jo Jo:

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But that shouldn't be a reason why someone is denied a title shot.

Right and doing some light-contact sparring with Cro Cop for 3 rounds and getting your shit rocked by Big Nog suddenly qualify you to take on the best HW boxer?

Mir deserves shit.

Mir has been fighting at this level for over a decade, he just picked up his second win over nog via broken limb.

What the hell are you talking about?

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0 # Sambro 2012-04-13 16:45

Quoting Joey Jo Jo:

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But that shouldn't be a reason why someone is denied a title shot.

Right and doing some light-contact sparring with Cro Cop for 3 rounds and getting your shit rocked by Big Nog suddenly qualify you to take on the best HW boxer?

Mir deserves shit.

Shitstain is talking out his ass again. I'm no fan of Mir, but to say he hasn't improved is nonsense. He fucked up Big Nog in there first fight to footwork and upper cuts. (Yeah, yeah, yeah... Big Nog was sick)... but it was a huge upset.

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+3 # TDM 2012-04-13 11:21

*frate tranes

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-1 # Guest 2012-04-14 05:36

Only a glass jawed pussy would go down after 4 Mike Tyson's Punch Out uppercuts on the chin from Carwin, and then he went out after only like 20 seconds of power shots to the back of the head... glass jaw.

To further prove Mir's glass jaw, he got hit with a few Brock smashy smash shot to the skull with his head pinned down, and his feet were totally wobbled when he got up a few seconds later, so there you have it folks... proof.

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-5 # KingGhidorah 2012-04-13 09:27

Nobody wants to see Mir fight for the title. Simple as that. The UFC is all about PPVs and I'm sure that Hunt could draw in more PPVs than Mir.

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+15 # Joey Jo Jo 2012-04-13 09:40

Bahahaha... Frank, who the fuck are you kidding?



Good luck grabbing hold of one those I-beams Junior has for an arm when it's traveling at Mach 2 towards your chin pubes.

I mean for fuck's sake, Frank hasn't changed since UFC 38 when Ian Freeman pulled a Lesnar on him.

No stand-up, no core strength, no head movement; just a big, fat, sloppy BJJ guy who likes to wrap himself around something and hope for the best.

Big Nog rocked him. Dos Santos will comatose him.

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0 # Guest 2012-04-13 10:41

hear hear!
My nutsack has more hair than Mir's chin.

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+4 # Guest 2012-04-13 10:00

hes so eager to get koed

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+15 # Guest 2012-04-13 10:21

I love it when people post up a pic of a fighter losing to make their point.

I could post up way more of him winning, but im not retarded.

Sad to see a guy like frank who has been competeing for so long get hated on.

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0 # Guest 2012-04-13 16:06

Totally agreed, the belt loses credibility if anyone except Mir gets the the title shot.

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+2 # Guest 2012-04-13 16:38

I gave you a thumbs-up but on second thought: that's not necessarily true.

The belt is reserved for the best fighter in the world + that is separate from the process of rankings that produces challengers. Basically if Hunt would beat JDS he would deserve the belt. It doesn't ruin any credibility in the title, maybe the process -but that is always up for debate anyway.

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0 # Guest 2012-04-14 00:05

Alright then, the process loses credibility. My point was Mir really should get the title shot if Reem doesn't get liscenced

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-7 # Guest 2012-04-13 10:28

#RALLYFORROMNEY

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+9 # Fatty_Sam86 2012-04-13 10:51

Lol that dude is the epitome of a politician. Ron Paul, baby.

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0 # Guest 2012-04-13 12:12

What he meant is that he would be in such a bad humor that his family would pay the price for it, so he prefers to take his anger somewhere else.

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+5 # aint.that.a.kick.in.the.head 2012-04-13 12:39

Id like to see Hunt too, but a lot of hate for Mir who isnt a speed bump.

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+6 # Dill 2012-04-13 14:25

Why wouldn't he go to his house? To prevent a Brett Rodgers esque incident?

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0 # Guest 2012-04-13 15:20

yea what if my boy fedor takes your spot frank? what u gunna do besides get ktfo

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+4 # Yoshinegro_Blackiyama 2012-04-13 19:07

#RALLYFORBOBSAP P

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