Mir: People forget I always beat pure strikers
“This is that fight for him,” said UFC President Dana White of Frank Mir’s fight Saturday with heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos….
“This is that fight for him,” said UFC President Dana White of Frank Mir’s fight Saturday with heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos. “I’ve really been beating that Mir drum, that he’s the most dangerous guy in the UFC because he’s been in the UFC for 11 years.”
Mir agrees.
“I think that sometimes it’s overlooked,” Mir said. “I think most [people] get stuck in, ‘Well, you fought this guy’ and individual thought on how did you do. And they’ve got to realise that A, B, C fighters, we’ve gone through the whole thing before on who does well.
“Sometimes it comes down to style. And with my style I’ve predominantly done better with people that use more striking or know the submission games.
“I’ve had to work harder on the wrestling-based [fighters] as far as control and position and so that’s why, if you look at my training, it’s geared towards wrestling more because I am so comfortable with the boxing and the kick-boxing aspects and also dealing with submission guys.”