Frank Mir and Brock Lesnar have a lot of history together. Mir welcomed the former WWE champion in the UFC at UFC 81 in 2008, where he submitted him with a kneebar after taking a considerable beating. In their second encounter at UFC 100 one year later, Lesnar managed to put Mir away with punches in the second round. In both fights, the BJJ blackbelt was overwhelmed by the sheer power of Lesnar’s wrestling.
But in a rubber match, Mir feels Lesnar would not stand a chance against him anymore, neither standing up nor on the ground.
“I think I would crush [Lesnar] standing up now. I think that on the ground and stuff, I’ve worked with Ricky Lundell and stuff a lot and learned how to nullify the wrestling. I wrestled three rounds with Daniel Cormier who’s an Olympic level wrestler and he had a difficult time taking me down. I think that Lesnar would really have to throw caution to the wind and really rush through and I don’t think that he’s gotten any better at wanting to take punches. The jab-hook combination that I landed on Bigfoot would have floored him too. And then ground and pound I threw on him, to Bigfoot, I think that the same thing that happened with [Lesnar] and Velasquez, when he finally hit his back, screaming for the fight to be stopped. I just don’t know that he’d have time to scream with me.”
(Transcription taken from The Fight Corner)
Brock Lesnar is still under contract with leading pro-wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment, but his contract expires in five weeks. There are strong rumors that Lesnar could make a return to the UFC after his WWE contract is up, especially since he left a WWE live show he was scheduled for on Monday after a contractual dispute with CEO Vince McMahon.
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