(Frank Mir pauses a moment to flex his biceps and think about his childhood. Photo courtesy of Fight Magazine’s excellent UFC 107 weigh-in gallery.)
When Frank Mir has let his weight get into the 260′s in the past, it hasn’t typically been extra muscle tipping the scales. Not unless that extra muscle was strategically hidden under layers of gut. It’s no secret that he hates doing cardio, is prone to bouts of crippling depression, and he’s more than six years removed from the chiseled young Adonis who appeared on the cover of Muscle & Fitness. But for UFC 107 Mir weighed in at a bulky 264.5 pounds, and for perhaps the first time in his career it was not a sign that he’s been letting himself go.
Quite the contrary, in fact. Mir got with former Strongman Mark Phillipi and did a serious lifting routine to bulk up for this fight. Now he seems pretty sure that he won’t get tossed around by the bigger heavyweights in the division, especially guys whose names rhyme with Lock Festner, but has he sacrificed any quickness and agility in the process? The extra weight might really help against a corn-fed wrestler, but against a lanky French striker it could be more of a liability.
What say you, Potato Nation? Is this just one more sign that Mir is looking past Kongo and on to Lesnar?
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commentsThat weight might actually help Mir get him to the ground. Still, the added muscle mass might also kill his cardio. It'll be cool to see how it affects him.
Either one of you guys care to inform us why several of us cant post properly all of a sudden?
Yeah I wonder what the hell the deal is? All i can post is these little short one or two line comments. Whats the deal CP?
The same thing happened to me the other day, but I think I too was banned for questioning a certain someones abilities as a parent and spouse among other things. That's why I have been staying away from arguments and unnecessary insults. Cuz how could I survive with out cp?!
I got mir in this one. Head kick round 2 ala Sylvia v. Tellegman.
Oh yeah, I can't wait to find out what Mir's balls look like.
*Flashback to the mind scaring pics of War Machine and Whore Machine on the couch*
Mir's going to sub Kongo in the 1st by my count.
*rips off Mir's arms like one of Cinerella's sisters ripping apart the dress*
if he is still the horribly not well rounded fighter he is normally then mir will win by decision or submission
I hope so anyway, Kongo's contant badgering for a title shot and that annoying chest thump fist raise thing he does on the way to the octagon annoys me for reason's I can't explain.
Did you call anyone a fag? I think CP gave me a 2 day posting ban once for calling this one faggy dude a fag and because I keep passively aggressively asking for the t-shirts that I won but still haven't received. This might be your case, I dunno.
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