what happend to Frank Mir? new testing?

MoparOrNoCar said:
Mir has been performing better as of late so maybe it's just evened the field?
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Mir hasnt actually fought since USADA random whereabouts testing came in ...

So um...



(He lost to Arlovski in September - but full whereabouts based testing didnt come in till October 1st)

Even if you go from July then hes 0-1 under USADA so no idea where you get this "performing better" from
 
It's crazy how's been performing better after (apparently) being off the juice.
 
dimspace said:
Its the testing, but hopefully his cardio will improve?

ya knows the cardio comes from PED's? Epo, FG4592, Tranfusions etc

If anything with the new testing peoples cardio will go to shit (something weve seen in several instances)
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such a disgrace to the sport
 
dimspace said:
Its the testing, but hopefully his cardio will improve?

ya knows the cardio comes from PED's? Epo, FG4592, Tranfusions etc

If anything with the new testing peoples cardio will go to shit (something weve seen in several instances)
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When you don't have to carry as much "mass" your cardio can improve.
Alistair Overeem?
U know?
UberReem couldn't go 1 rd Vs BigFoot and Browne.
Look him now..
 
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Sonny Qc said:
The Mir that fought Mir Brock (rematch) and Carwin was Huge AF!
But yeah the testing.
Hope is cardio will improve a bit.
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He was big against Carwin but the 2nd Brock fight was the lightest he's been at 245.
 
Sonny Qc said:
The Mir that fought Mir Brock (rematch) and Carwin was Huge AF!
But yeah the testing.
Hope is cardio will improve a bit.
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  1. No. Mir was the lightest he's ever fought at for the Brick rematch. 244 or something like that. He bulked way up for Carwin thinking he was too small against the giant HW's. If he eats right and tries he can be shredded even at his age. But dad-bod Mir was having some success so...burritos here and there were ok!
 
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nostradumbass said:
He was big against Carwin but the 2nd Brock fight was the lightest he's been at 245.
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Probably right,was going on memory only. I remember a couple of fight where I tought 'Mir got bigger' . Not sure what other fight ...
 
Sonny Qc said:
The Mir that fought Mir Brock (rematch) and Carwin was Huge AF!
But yeah the testing.
Hope is cardio will improve a bit.
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He deliberately added muscle for the Kongo and Carwin fight. He was trying to weigh about 280 and cut to 265 to compete with the super heavies like Brock and Carwin.
 
It could be down to the fact that when the likes of Brock and Carwin were around, he kept saying how he needed to be stronger and bigger, so he incorporated a lot of weight training in to his camps. He may have just stopped that since those larger men aren't around anymore, as he no longer felt the extra weight and strength were necessary. Which resulted in his muscle mass declining and his flabby belly rising.

Or USADA happened, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
 
I don't have much to add... I'm just stoked on that MS paint gif. win.
 
Sonny Qc said:
When you don't have to carry as much "mass" your cardio can improve.
Alistair Overeem?
U know?
UberReem couldn't go 1 rd Vs BigFoot and Browne.
Look him now..
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There is that, would be interesting to have some sort of study to compare benefits to cardio as a result of loss of mass, benefits to cardio of ped's.

In Endurance sports, EPO is believed to offer anything between a 3 and 10% increase in endurance, but thats over long endurance events. Over a 15 or 25 minute fight, using Epo is probably the difference between going all three rounds flat out, and gassing in the third, maybe even earlier.. I think weve seen a couple of cases recently with fighters looking a lot more cautious as far as cardio output goes in their fights. One in particular springs to mind where one of the fighters seemed noticably less aggressive than in previous fights.

Would be interesting to see if there are any studies looking at decreased mucle mass v cardio to see if there is some measure of improvement.

As far as Reem goes, his cardio in the Hunt fight was one of the few times Ive just looked at the screen and gone W..T...F... his cardio in that fight was nonsense.

Mir.. to get back to the original point.. I think hes just got old. You get to a certain age and shit just goes south. I think Mirs got to that age.
 
His wife probably told him to "man up" again. Just like she did before Mir dismantled Big Nog....Mir vs. Big Nog was the best Frank Mir EVER!
 
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