Mir: I already had one eye on JDS
I would be lying if I said it didn’t pull me away from my preparations for Velasquez, Mir told ESPN.com….
I would be lying if I said it didn’t pull me away from my preparations for Velasquez, Mir told ESPN.com. The fact it came through was a good thing, because I already had one eye on dos Santos.
In the early parts of camp, Mir was going home and watching Internet videos of college wrestling matches, according to his head trainer, Jimmy Gifford. Once the Overeem news was announced, those late-night film sessions mysteriously switched to videos of boxing classics.
He came in saying, ‘Yeah, I watched Joe Louis fights last night,’ Gifford said. I told him, ‘I thought you were watching wrestling.’
I’m actually happy the fight got changed. We were like everyone else — reading the Internet, saying this guy tested positive; what’s up? He was already pretty checked out.
