Frank Mir Injury Officially Postpones Brock Lesnar Rematch
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Mar 9, 2009 at 12:00 am ET24 Comments
Frank Mir
The anticipated heavyweight rematch and unification bout between title-holders Frank Mir and Brock Lesnar will have to wait until July at the earliest after a knee injury suffered by Mir forced the matchup to be officially postponed on Saturday.
Mir underwent surgery on the knee on Monday and will be out of training for four to six weeks, making a May 23rd meeting at UFC 98 impossible.
Instead, Mir and Lesnar are likely to meet in the main event of UFC 100 on July 11th in Las Vegas while UFC 98 is now likely to feature Quinton “Rampage” Jackson against light heavyweight title-holder Rashad Evans.
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Tags: Brock Lesnar, Frank Mir, Quinton Jackson, Rashad Evans
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Mir has surgery Monday, UFC announces a fight on Tuesday… Either he didn’t inform them of the surgery or they thought he was kidding. Either way, that announcement turned into a real fustercluck.
[Cool Hand Luke reference]“ya see… what we have here is… a failure to communicate.”[/Cool Hand Luke reference]
This was a strategic move on the part of Frank Mir. He was informed that his life insurance policy needed to be paid for a full year before his family could collect on it and as it turns out he signed up for it last June, so he needed to stall a little longer. Frank Mir you sly fella.
thats funny ^
brock should fight carwin while he’s waiting 8 months off is too much
No he shouldn’t. Carwin is not ready for Lesnar quite yet.
Well guys and girls the great one is back. I was off work for a week and my home computer was fried in a power outage we had, so I was unable to post any comments. Mir is doing the right thing here. I wouldn’t want to be injured facing a beast like Lesnar either. But boy did he set this up for the UFC 100 show or what? Depending on his contract I’m quite sure he would have a bigger payday with UFC 100 than with 98. More PPV buys the more money he gets.
Yeah, I definitely think he stands to have a bigger payday coming out from his PPV percentage at 100 than 98. I also think it’s really fishy that Dana White is saying he didn’t know about the Mir thing until Friday, yet Mir says they told them on Monday, and told them to not release the press announcement for the fights.
In regards to rdb saying Brock should fight Carwin… no, he shouldn’t. Mir v. Lesnar is a title unification bout, and there is no reason to force the Champion to defend the title against anyone other than the “Interim Title” holder right now. Also, yes Carwin was impressive, and he may end up being one of the next in line for a shot, but that doesn’t mean he gets to pass up Frank Mir because Mir has an injury that is delaying the fight by 6 weeks.
yea sure whatever about the unification, if the whole system wasn’t so up to the whims of managment there wouldn’t be 2 champions.
Maybe. Brock and the UFC are not ready for Carwin, and the Golden boy needs more time before he faces decapitation at the hands of carwin
Yeah, so up to the whims of management that they honored the contract they already had in place between Nog and Mir to fight in December for the interim title when Couture finally got over having his feelings hurt because the $1-2 mil a fight he was making just wasn’t enough and came back and decided to fight.
We have had the whole “4 man tourney” argument dozens of times since last August whenever the Couture v. Lesnar fight was first announced. I’m not doing it again, and if you can’t recognize that there were contracts in place, and they did the right thing in honoring the existing contracts, there’s not even any point in trying to argue with you about this.
Back to the whims of management: I personally feel that Lyota Machida deserves the shot at Rashard Evans before Rampage does. The guy does nothing but win fights. Yes Rampage is the former champion, but he didn’t loose to Sugar he lost to Forrest. If he wants a rematch then face Griffin not Sugar. I think Machida is getting hosed big time.
who said 4 man tourny?
‘a high school tennis ladder manages to have a single #1.
it ain’t rocket science.
randy should have had to fight a UFC challenger or step down.
nog should have fought randy on the comeback not lesnar.
but the whims of management wanted to give randy a bad match up as vindication.
Nog was already under contract to fight Mir when Randy decided to come back. That is the contract the UFC needed to honor (and indeed did honor). After each of those fights were handled, the only thing left to do was a unification bout to….
“have a single #1.”
The 4 man tourney is part of the reason there are 2 champions right now. That was the simplest way I could think of to give this argument a name off the top of my head.
your correct of course.
having a ladder would have avoided that the official #2 simply moves up.
end of story. but i’ll have to be patient and wait for carwin’s next decapitation, especially lesnar’s
whatever happened ‘timing wise’ with respect to Mir, Dana White, and the UFC, i thought the explanation by Mir was done in taste and respect. if he’s hurt and not ready, better he make a solid excuse now, rather than a flimsy “BJPENN-ESQUE” one after the fight. it works in Lesnar’s favour as well, as he can learn what a leg lock/knee bar is.
no reason to blame mir, but brock should fight someone in that long stretch.
i hope mir is fully recovered, because i wanted to see him at 100% for brock, and have no excuse if he did indeed lose.
carwin will get his day…one of the guys i work with here in CO knows Carwin from wrestling at Western State. Apparently when Gonzaga nailed him with the punch where Joe Rogan made a comment about Carwin’s eyes rolling back…that punch actually busted his nose. The guy is tough as nails, but he’s really close to being the same fighter as brock…so i dont know if that matchup favors him or not.
While 8 months is a long lay-off, it’s not like he is pulling a Fedor(not a slight against Fedor as a fighter but look at his time between fights) here. Mir is unable to fight and since he will not be gone for a year or more he is still obligated to fufill the fight contract unless it’s scrapped completely by the UFC, since it’s just been delayed the contract still exists. Gotta remember if fighters do not fight they do not get paid, so it sucks for both. Not that they will be struggling but just making a point. The UFC did the right thing by honoring the Nog-Mir contract because it already existed. If you were working as a contractor and you had your contract for a job and then that contract was taken away you wouldn’t say ok cool but you’d find a lawyer. Same applies for fighting.
As for Carwin, he has been down right dominant no doubt and should fight to be the #1 contender. Carwin vs. Kongo is a fight that in my mind makes sense if Kongo takes out Hardonk. That fight would realistically establish a #1 contender, With Velazquez in the #2 slot if he dispatches Herring. The heavyweight division is quickly reestablishing itself as a tough division rather than the mess it was awhile ago. Should be interesting.
good post^
Carwin has been dominant, but his longest fight was his first and that went 2:11 in the 1st. Does he have the cardio to go the extra rounds? Is he a modern-day Mark Coleman? I would like to see another 4 man tourney for the next title shot:
Kongo(if he beats Herring) vs Dos Santos
Carwin vs Velasquez
Winners face each other and winner of that gets the title shot.
I would have to agree although I’d like to see a wrestler versus a striker in the first two (carwin vs. kongo and velazquez vs. dos santos) just because the contrasting styles would be fun. Cannot really disagree with you about Carwin not having long fights but neither Mir or Lesnar are known for the long fight.
I would love to see a Lesnar v Arlovski. Make it happen!
this is how it’d go…Arlovski stick and move stick and move and then boom lesnar w/ the 1 punch KO. I say that as a fan of arlovski too… his chin just sucks.