Earlier in the week, Frank Mir made comments that caused a lot of controversy in the mixed martial arts world. Of course saying…
I want to fight Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies due to Octagon-related injuries.
… is bound to stir things up. It wasn’t too long before UFC President Dana White responded to Mir’s comments by calling Mir…
a [expletive] idiot!
White went on to say…
I have never heard something so unprofessional and idiotic in my life.
Of course when the guy who writes your paychecks is upset with something you’ve said, it’s probably a good idea to apologize. Which is what Mir did…
“I would like to apologize to Brock Lesnar, his family, the UFC and the UFC fans for my stupid remarks…
So things should have died down, but then a reporter asked Shane Carwin [Mir’s next opponent] to comment on Mir’s tirade against Brock. Carwin hadn’t seen or heard the interview, but had this to say…
…I can tell you that ANY athlete wishing death upon a competitor is either a terrible human being or mentally unfit to fight…”
After that things quieted down… until a Sports Illustrated reporter spoke to Mir about the controversy his comments caused. Mir admitted he was surprised to be called to the carpet…
I’ve heard people say that this is to the death. I’ve heard people say about an opponent, ‘I’m going to kill him.’ I heard Brock say he was going to put his hand up my rear end to pull out a horseshoe. I didn’t hear anyone get too upset about that.”
The SI reporter went on to say that recently fighters like BJ Penn, Chuck Liddell and even Brock Lesnar have said that they wanted to kill or murder their opponents. So why the continued fuss over Mir’s comments?
Even Brock Lesnar didn’t seem to understand the controversy and told a Sporting News Reporter…
“It was out of line, but in the fighter’s mentality, I don’t want to go in the Octagon and kill somebody but I want to do whatever I can to win. Maybe that’s what he was saying…
So now things will, uh, die down, right? Oh, oh, maybe not because Brock added…
“I’d really like to fight Frank Mir again … Hopefully he gets past Shane Carwin so I can give him another beatdown. For a guy to take an ass-whipping like the last one I gave him and for him to keep running his mouth, I’ve just got laugh. … I don’t know what I’ll have to do to shut him up.”
Well, at least Brock didn’t say he’d have to kill him.