Mir hoping for a few more years fighting
Frank Mir is a former UFC heavyweight champion and at thirty five years of age has twenty-three fights inside the octagon, and he hopes a few more years left.
Frank Mir is a former UFC heavyweight champion and at thirty five years of age has twenty-three fights inside the octagon, and he hopes a few more years left:
“I just took some time off. I kind of felt that maybe I was a little burned out and wasn’t putting everything into the training and the fights. I think the last couple of fights, I was looking more forward to the fight being finished than the fight itself. I just saw the signs of being burnt out and decided to take some time off,” Mir revealed.
“I just turned 35 a couple of weeks ago. As a heavyweight, that’s really not that old. I think I’m still younger than some of them. I think 35 would be a pretty young age to retire. It would just be a long time of me commentating or broadcasting, which I plan on doing, but I’d hope to be able to fight for a few more years because once it’s over with it’s kind of over with.”
Nothing will happen until Mir is really ready to return, however, but when that time comes he’ll give the UFC a call to book a fight and then it’s game on against any heavyweight in the division.
“Once I take some time off and heal up and feel good about fighting, I’ll fight anybody,” Mir said. “Just jump back in there.”
