{"id":122754,"date":"2014-12-14T18:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=122754"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:04:33","slug":"frank-mir-nearly-retired-loss-overeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/frank-mir-nearly-retired-loss-overeem\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Mir nearly retired after loss to Overeem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/training-became-retirmement-joke-forrest-griffin\/frank-mir-18\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119036\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Frank-Mir1.png\" alt=\"Frank Mir\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119036\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a very one-sided loss to Alistair Overeem earlier this year, former heavyweight champion Frank Mir nearly retired.<\/p>\n<p>The 35 year-old has suffered losses in his last 4 Octagon appearances, with his losses coming to Alistair Overeem, Josh Barnett, Daniel Cormier, and Junior Dos Santos, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Mir will look to get back in the win column at UFC 184, where he faces Antonio Bigfoot Silva.  <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the bout, Mir spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2014\/12\/14\/7361653\/frank-mir-thought-about-retirement-after-loss-to-alistair-overeem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting<\/a> to discuss why he nearly retired after the loss to Overeem.<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8220;I did if I wasn&#8217;t able to have a proper offseason and see where I could get my body&#8217;s level of fitness up to.  Then I would have considered it just because at that point I don&#8217;t want to go in there and have a bad performance, keep getting worse and worse. It wastes people&#8217;s money and at the same time it wastes time from my family. If you can&#8217;t perform at a high level or at least an optimal level, then it&#8217;s time you have to call it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You take as much output from everybody around you, but I think that&#8217;s a decision you have to make on the inside.  I told everybody that I wasn&#8217;t going to make any decisions and just train without going left or right. Just train and be in shape and see how I felt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t fought the easiest opponents.  You can show up at your best and still not come out on top.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very one-sided loss to Alistair Overeem earlier this year, former heavyweight champion Frank Mir nearly retired. 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