Frank was a young prodigy. His accident clearly affected his career, but ultimately he was his own worst enemy. I often wondered in the WEC days if Mir play by played his own fights mentally as they unfolded. He seemed to genuinely believe that on paper assessments would carry through on fight night, EVERY time. “I am better at x, y and z. My opponent is barley better than me at b. Therefore I easily crush him. I have more weapons”. His flagrant disrespect for opponents that he deemed unworthy of beating him gave us some shock wins and more improbable soul crushing losses. But he was, as I said originally, a prodigy at one point. He was a reliable fight narrator, a brutal submission artist and the beginning of a new era, I would hazard to guess that many of us were Mir fans at some point in his timeline. He was equal parts asinine and informative. Embarrassing and prolific.
