What a difference a couple of months makes, i use to think this guys like the AntichristNow mir's being getting the bad press, talk about a role reversal
UFC heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar has finally spoken out on the disgraceful comments made by Frank Mir earlier this week, with the man mountain admitting he doesn’t know what he has to do to shut his bitter rival up.
Speaking via KFAN Sports Radio AM 1130, Lesnar said:
“I feel really good. I'm back to training, I started main camp last week and I feel great. Everything is on track. Starting to build the base up again and get ready to fight hopefully mid-summer. We're thinking about July 3rd Las Vegas right now. Fighting the winner, hopefully the winner, of Frank Mir and Shane Carwin. If one of those guys are unable to fight after that fight. I'll probably fight Cain Velasquez from my understanding. I'd really like to fight Frank Mir again.”
“You know I don't know what he [Frank Mir] thought... he's still trying to pull his foot out of his mouth and when you say something like that and your wife has to go out and apologize for you, you know you pissed somebody off. I think his wife made the apology before he did probably.”
“But you know in this sport of fighting. Fighting has come so far in such a short amount of time. We want to perceive ourselves as athletes and get the respect of the general public. Yeah it was out of line but in the fighters mentally I don't want to go in the Octagon and kill somebody but I do want to do whatever I can to win. And maybe that's what he was saying, I don’t know.”
“But the guy should probably just focus on the task in front of him which is Shane Carwin because if Shane Carwin beats his ass he won't be fighting me.... Hopefully he gets passed Shane Carwin so I can put another beat down on him. For a guy to take an ass whopping like the last I gave him and for him to get up and keep running his mouth. You know I just got to laugh at it.”
“I got to go back to a quote that he said before my second fight. He said if Brock Lesnar beats me, he will become the greatest mixed marital artist ever. And I guess he's eating his words and he doesn't want to say that again, he doesn't want to admit that I am that much better than him. But I am truly hoping that Frank wins this fight so it sets us up for July and maybe the next beat down will ... (laughs) I don't know what I have to do to shut him up.”
The pair hold one win over each other with Mir defeating Lesnar in his octagon debut via first round submission before Lesnar unified the titles on the grandest stage of them all, UFC 100 with a second round stoppage due to strikes. How will a third fight go between the two now that Mir has bulked up and Lensar has suffered from illness?