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Frank Mir Gives Insight While Comparing His Situation To Jon Jones

Frank Mir gives some interesting insight while comparing his own dealings with USADA in light of the news of Jon Jones. The internet went crazy on Sunday evening once it was revealed that one of Jones’ test from earlier this month was found to have an ‘atypical finding.’ It led to the NSAC not licinging […]

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Jones is slated to take on Alexander Gustafsson in the headliner for the vacant UFC light heavyweight title. Former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir was one of many who commented on this situation.

Mir had his own dealings with USADA after he suspended from competition for two years. This all started after he tested positive for the same substance as Jones did back in April 2017. Jones failed in in July 2017 as well as the atypical finding. This led to Mir taking to his Facebook account to compare the situations.

Insight Offering

“In the spring of 2016, when USADA representatives sat in my Las Vegas kitchen and told me that the turinabol metabolite. They said I tested positive for could only have been ingested within a window of the past several months, I vehemently proclaimed my innocence. Having never failed any drug test throughout my career. I asked if we could go back further in the past to test any supplements that I could’ve taken. But they claimed that was both impossible and unnecessary. They were firm on their assertion that there was only a recent period of several months that would warrant any consideration.

Now, little more than two years later, Jon Jones has tested positive for the same trace of the same banned substance. USADA is taking the position that this same low level is in fact not a new ingestion. But something that could be the result of a residual ‘pulsing’ effect that could potentially stay in his system ‘forever’. Further, they are now claiming that this phenomenon is something that they are seeing in other cases as well.”

Continuation

The only difference between the fighters was the suspension length as Jones got a 15-month suspension. Mir continued by bringing up some possibilities.

“This latest shift in USADA’s position would seem to suggest one of two possibilities. Either they are a) offering special dispensation to Jon Jones or b) they are second guessing and subsequently ‘revising’ the presentation of their own science. Either scenario leaves myself and a number of other fighters whose careers have been similarly damaged by past testing claims to wonder what this says about USADA’s consistency and their tests’ reliability.

Sadly, my accusation came at a time when the UFC’s partnership with USADA had not yet been subjected to the kind of doubt that now seems to further cloud it with each new instance of convoluted circumstances.”

In the spring of 2016, when USADA representatives sat in my Las Vegas kitchen and told me that the turinabol metabolite…

Posted by Frank Mir on Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Frank Mir May Retire, But Wants Javy Ayala Rematch First

Frank Mir is nearing the end of his fighting career, but he wants a rematch with Javy Ayala first to help him determine his immediate future. Mir lost to Ayala last weekend at Bellator 212 in Hawai. He tapped to strikes after suffering a fracture to the alveolar ridge of his jaw. Mir’s mouthpiece wasn’t […]

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Frank Mir is nearing the end of his fighting career, but he wants a rematch with Javy Ayala first to help him determine his immediate future.

Mir lost to Ayala last weekend at Bellator 212 in Hawai. He tapped to strikes after suffering a fracture to the alveolar ridge of his jaw. Mir’s mouthpiece wasn’t in place during the fight-ending sequence. However, the former two-time UFC heavyweight champion isnt sure how much of a role that played in the outcome.

“You start drawing questions whether you should still fight again. But then I have to start counting in how much did the mouthpiece create a factor into the outcome of the fight,” Mir said on the latest edition of his “Phone Booth Fighting” podcast. “Obviously, it was a huge factor in the outcome.”

Mir had his moments against Ayala, most notebly in the first round. He had the larger Ayala in trouble as Mir worked his way into top control. However, in the second frame things took a turn for the worst for the former champ.

Mir’s Thoughts

“The second round, there was a combination that I threw, and then afterwards he threw a punch back, and it knocked out my mouthpiece,” Mir recalled. “I clinched him up against the fence, trying to slow the pace of the fight down. And then when he reversed me, I kind of used it as an opportunity to look at the referee like, ‘Hey, can I get my mouthpiece back? You know, I’m fighting somebody that’s 265 pounds, and they punch hard, and I’d like to have it back.’ Then as I was trying to talk to him. Javy did a good job with his head positioning. It was good on my chin. Then one of the punches came through, and I felt like my teeth got knocked in, so that’s when I reached up and tried to essentially pull my teeth back out.

“When I reached up and grabbed them, they straightened out – which I found out the reason why is because my upper jaw was actually broken, so when I went to pull my teeth, all I did was straighten the jaw back out. I thought that was weird that they weren’t coming out for as loose as they felt. I felt them in the roof of my mouth just a second prior. Then, when I looked up at the referee, I’m like, ‘Well maybe if I get my mouthpiece back, I can frame it somehow.’ Then when I took another shot there, the pain was just pretty intense, and I’m like, ‘All right, there’s something not right up here.’

“I think it’s visceral. It’s animalistic when you know, ‘OK, there’s something majorly wrong with my body right now.’ … It didn’t feel like something I’m just going to walk off. So that’s when I just waved off the fight to figure out what’s going on with my mouth.”

In the days after the fight, Mir has remained silent on the matter. He has since reflected on the entire situation and admits he’s rather frustrated at Mike Beltran’s officiating.

“The referee kicked my ass worse than anybody here,” Mir said. “He didn’t protect me at all.”

That is the main reason Mir hopes Ayala will run it back. Mir said that he was going to use this fight as a gauge to whether or not he should continue to fight. However, given all the question marks surrounding the outcome he simply doesn’t feel there are enough answers to make a good decision.

The Ayala Rematch

“I would actually like to have a rematch with Javy, reason being is because really he was a testing moment for me to feel if I should continue fighting or not,” Mir said. “He’s somebody that doesn’t have – obviously, he hits hard, but so does every other heavyweight. But he was picked as an opponent that was a very winnable fight – should be if I’m worthy of still fighting, and so then it’s really a crossroads for me.

“Immediately after, I’m like, ‘Well, I lost. I guess it’s time to hang it up.’ But then going back and looking at it, knowing what I was going through and knowing that, ‘OK, well, I won the first round. Is it really time for me to hang it up?’ I think the only way to really answer that is to rematch with Javy Ayala again. If I come through short again and it doesn’t work out, then it is time to hang it up. If I can’t beat the Javy Ayalas, then I probably shouldn’t be fighting anymore.”

The 39-year-old Mir has been competing professionally for over 17 years. He has been open about his career nearing an end and shifting his role back to being a full-time dad again.

But the former heavyweight champ isnt ready to hand em up just yet. He suggested he will change his entire approach to the fight if Ayala was to grant him a rematch.

“A week before the fight I was celebrating my anniversary,” Mir recalled. “I think if I really am going to continue fighting and get the opportunity to rematch Javy. I think that me going to a camp an disappearing and just taking it a little bit more mentally serious. I’ve kind of been able to be a part-time dad and then part-time fighter and had some success at it. But if I look at my record the last couple years, it’s not working. I’m not young enough and talented enough to get away with it anymore.”

Just to be clear Mir isnt entertaining fights with anyone else. He just wants to run it back with Ayala. Questions remain unanswered and Mir is hoping Ayala will be willing to help him find those answers.

“That’s the most painful thing I’m dealing with right now,” Mir said. “Like, ‘Is it the end of my career? Is it over with? Should I see the writing on the wall?’”

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Frank Mir Describes Nasty Jaw Fracture At Bellator 212

Frank Mir has described a nasty injury he suffered at Bellator 212. Mir went one-on-one with Javy Ayala in the co-main event of Bellator’s first doubleheader card in Hawaii. While Mir had success in the first round with his grappling, the second …

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Frank Mir Breaks Silence On Bellator 212 Loss

Frank Mir had a rough night at Bellator 212 and he has spoken out about it. On Dec. 14, Mir collided with Javy Ayala inside the ?Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii. The heavyweight tilt served as Bellator 212’s co-main event. Things went…

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Frank Mir Details Gameplan For Bellator Return Against Javy Ayala

Frank Mir is ready to make his return to the Bellator cage. Mir hasn’t fought since April when he was knocked out by Fedor Emelianenko in his Bellator debut. Now, he’s slated to make his return at Bellator Hawaii in December against Javy Ay…

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10 Biggest Post-Fight Meltdowns In MMA History

Check out the 10 biggest post-fight meltdowns in MMA history.

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From the very beginning, there has been a fair share of post-fight meltdowns in MMA history.

Whether it was MMA’s original bad boy, Tito Ortiz, nearly inciting a riot with the Lions Den after his victory of Guy Metzger or Ronda Rousey going AWOL after losing the women’s bantamweight title, post-fight freakouts are must-watch TV.

The term meltdown or even freakout is a bit subjective. So for the purpose of this list, we will define meltdown as ‘a sudden loss of control over one’s feeling or behavior.’

So with that in mind, we scoured the combat sports landscape to bring you 10 of the biggest post-fight meltdowns in MMA history.

The list starts here, enjoy.

Daniel Cormier

Before Daniel Cormier became the undisputed “baddest man on the planet” by defeating Stipe Miocic at UFC 226 and thus becoming the first man ever to hold both the light heavyweight title and the heavyweight strap at the same time, he was one of the internet’s hottest memes.

Cormier met his longtime rival Jon Jones for the light heavyweight title at July 2017’s UFC 214 from Anaheim, California. Although “DC” faired well in the early going of the five-round fight, Jones was the better man on that night. He knocked Cormier out with a third-round head kick to regain the title before testing positive for ********.

Sadly, the image of a grown man in tears is what most people remember from UFC 214.

The crying face Cormier meme quickly became the web’s newest way to express one’s unpleasantries, joining the famous crying Michael Jordan meme in the process.

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