I’m almost out the door to Vegas, but I had to make a quick comment on Frank Mir’s comments to Steve Cofield.
There are a lot of things Frank Mir has expressed confusion about lately. I will try to help him understand, given that it is still basically Christmas and I am in the giving spirit.
Why did Randy Couture fight Brock Lesnar? Because it was part of the deal to get him to come back; it was a huge payday and Randy thought he would win. It would also serve to heat up the concept of title unification.
Is it unfair that Lesnar got a title shot? Not really. How did Frank Mir earn his shot? He beat a 1-0 fighter. If I have to hear Mir talk about how Lesnar gets everything because of his name again I’ll scream. The only reason Mir was on TUF and in a world title match is because of Brock Lesnar’s name. He beat him on a gigantic PPV and got a lot of notoriety, he should be sending Lesnar’s whole family half of his bonus rather than slamming him.
The idea of him complaining about fighting five rounds for nothing is ridiculous. The match was made for the title when they thought Randy was never coming back. They based an entire season of their show around the match.
Even though Brock-Randy was unjustified in a pure sport sense, this fight is far less justified. Randy went into that fight as the underdog; the fact that most people thought Brock would win made it legitimate in a sense, and the fact that he did win legitimized it retrospectively. On the other hand, Mir is a huge underdog in this fight, and I don’t believe it will even be competitive unless Nogueira got too old in the last 10 months.