Mir: Roy’s a 205 pound guy with a tire on
Pro MMA Radio: Let’s talk about Roy for a second. Dana’s obviously upset with him. He said, “look, he should…
Pro MMA Radio: Let’s talk about Roy for a second. Dana’s obviously upset with him. He said, “look, he should at least be around 240.” I think there’s an argument that with the proper discipline, his proper weight class would be 205. You’ve now fought him and you’ve fought a lot of the rest of the division. If you were sitting down with Roy one on one. What would you tell him about this weight issue and what he has to do for his future?
Frank Mir: I agree. I like Roy and I think that he’s a very skilled fighter. He was able to land a couple punches in the fight but it really came down to the fact that his belly impedes his abilities. I think that he’s a great fighter in spite of his belly and his weight, not because of it. His strength, his physical strength when we locked up, most of my training partners are light heavyweights felt stronger than him. That’s why when we were against the cage, that’s what really drew me in. I had my underhook. I’m like, “ok, this guy could pull my legs out underneath him and he still couldn’t change levels on me.” I could feel the strength that he had. He does need to go 205 and I’ve spoken to him and Jess, his wife, about that at one of the Expos. I know it’s not easy to want to cut all that weight but I know he had talked about just changing his body composition, adding weight, getting bigger.
Well Roy, you’re already 260 pounds. We weighed in the same. That means you’ve got to drop about 40 pounds of fat and add 40 pounds of muscle. That, to me, is a much harder task than just dropping 40 pounds of fat. Building muscle takes years to do. Even me, my muscle first that think I developed right after the Brock fight,was more water. I was more bloated, stuffing myself with protein. I didn’t really feel as strong even though I was the same, even bigger than I am now. I feel stronger now just because of the consistency of the heavy lifting and now it’s been two years and it’s just now starting to neurologically fit in. So for Roy to want to, at 34, he’s gonna be 35 this month, try to redo his whole body, I think it would be easier to go to 205. I think his half guard would come back, his takedown defense, his mobility, his footwork. I think he’s quick and the power he does have I think he would retain because physically he wouldn’t lose any muscle. He’s a 205 pound guy with a tire on.
PMR: Brock Lesnar is scheduled to fight January-ish if all things go according to plan. Would you be interested in fighting Brock again?
FM: I would. I still think Brock poses a good fight. I wouldn’t mind if he came back and looked a little dominating first just to make it look intriguing. I think with his last fight against Velasquez, I wouldn’t want to diminish the victory that I would pose off of beating him like, “well, he did lose his last fight. He looked like garbage against Carwin and now he had surgery.” I would like to remove a few of those things. If he comes out and smashes somebody then yeah. I think it makes sense and I would have to make sense for him too. If I go out there and people are like, “ehh, that’s not worth watching,” but I think now, with the improvement in my wrestling, everybody is sitting there making arguments like, “well, maybe it would be a more interesting fight the third time around than it has been.”