People belittling Mir's striking and his Arlovskii fight.

[Concrete Whale]

I just don't get it. Mir took that fight on 2 weeks notice, against a very dangerous former champion with fast hands who was on a 5 fight win streak, including absolutely destroying Travis Browne in his last fight, and had won 10 of his last 12 fights, with 6 KOs. And Mir had his timing down flat, Arlovskii was totally unable to land anything heavy on him. Mir took him down without getting hit. i haven't rewatched the fight so correct me if I'm inaccurate here. The decision easily could/should have gone to Mir.

Before that he had 2 violent first round KOs against serious opponents, and went the distance against Overeem, now look what Overeem just did to JDS. Mir dominated Nelson, who puts sub par strikers to sleep in the first round. He KOed Crocop. Where the basis for saying Mir is a bad striker is I don't know other than hate. It's not his specialty but he is more than competent on the feet. I'm not sure how many people would have even taken the Arlovskii fight.

 

[Primitivo]

 

[HHJ]

Did you actually see Mir's fight with crocop?

 

[yookfarb]

Did you actually see Mir's fight with crocop?

Or the Reem/Big Country fights

 

[Concrete Whale]

When you can't refute, mock.

Never got the Mir hate but what can you do. Thanks for your replies anyway.

 

[Ballsaque]

Someone link the gif.

 

[HHJ]

When you can't refute, mock.

Never got the Mir hate but what can you do. Thanks for your replies anyway.

I didnt mock,i asked if you had actually seen Mir's fight with crocop. Cos..there wasnt a whole lot of striking or anything to speak of in that fight.

 

[Concrete Whale]

Someone link the gif.

No problem:

 

[HHJ]

every mir thread needs that gif in the OP

 

[Concrete Whale]

I didnt mock,i asked if you had actually seen Mir's fight with crocop. Cos..there wasnt a whole lot of striking or anything to speak of in that fight.

There was a knee KO if I recall correctly.

 

[Rittsy]

No problem:

 

[HHJ]

There was a knee KO if I recall correctly.

yeah but so what? that was after several rounds of the most boring terrible main event in ufc history. Him landing a knee on shot mirko after an agonizing fight of nothing happening,doesnt make a case for his striking.

 

[HHJ]

 

[RJK]

Is this a troll thread? I can hardly tell any more.

Mir isn't a fluid striker, but he can be sneaky and catch people with something heavy - that makes fighters hesitant to over-extend against him.. If you didn't watch the AA fight then you can't really comment on it, let alone base most of your OP on it.

 

[Primitivo]

When you can't refute, mock.

Never got the Mir hate but what can you do. Thanks for your replies anyway.

 

[HHJ]

Mir could tell Arlovski was only throwing right hands,so he waited on him for the counter, But AA KNEW mir KNEW that he was only throwing right hands so he didnt move and mir didnt move,and thus we had that shitty fight.

 

[Forever Young]

Yeah Mir is the fucking man. People that criticize are kind of missing the point on heavyweight MMA.

At his age, having been competing for this long, to still be looking as good as he has been lately (except the Barnett fight, but, so what, everyone gets caught sometimes) is tremendous.

That being said:

The heavyweight division is so awesome right now, to be honest, with all these tough old veterans in the middle of their second or third "resurgences", and Mir is up there with the best of them. I just hope TRT gets legalized in the next couple of years so that he, and Hunt, Arlovski, Overeem, Werdum, Barnett, Dos Santos, and all the other hunks of jerky that constitute the division can keep going for at least a couple more years.

 

[Snake Fist]

There was a knee KO if I recall correctly.

The fight was so bland and lacklustre, Mir never received a KOTN bonus for that KO, while it being the only KO of the night.

 

[KONE]

I just don't get it. Mir took that fight on 2 weeks notice, against a very dangerous former champion with fast hands who was on a 5 fight win streak, including absolutely destroying Travis Browne in his last fight, and had won 10 of his last 12 fights, with 6 KOs. And Mir had his timing down flat, Arlovskii was totally unable to land anything heavy on him. Mir took him down without getting hit. i haven't rewatched the fight so correct me if I'm inaccurate here. The decision easily could/should have gone to Mir.

Before that he had 2 violent first round KOs against serious opponents, and went the distance against Overeem, now look what Overeem just did to JDS. Mir dominated Nelson, who puts sub par strikers to sleep in the first round. He KOed Crocop. Where the basis for saying Mir is a bad striker is I don't know other than hate. It's not his specialty but he is more than competent on the feet. I'm not sure how many people would have even taken the Arlovskii fight.

If Mir didn't come in like a fat fucking slob he would've done a lot better, unfortunately

He dropped Arlovski in round 3. If he had a bit more gas in the tank and went nuts with the GNP, who knows.

 

[Pepy]