{"id":67152,"date":"2013-08-22T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=67152"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:52:51","slug":"frank-mir-not-ready-to-give-up-championship-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/frank-mir-not-ready-to-give-up-championship-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Mir not ready to give up championship dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frank-mir.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frank-mir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frank-mir.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frank-mir-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/frank-mir-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDespite losing two straight fights inside the Octagon, former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir (16-7 MMA, 14-7 UFC) isn\u2019t ready to throw in the towel on his championship dream.<\/p>\n<p>Mir&#8217;s most recent octagon effort\u00a0resulted in a\u00a0unanimous decision loss\u00a0to Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix winner Daniel Cormier at April&#8217;s UFC on FOX: Melendez vs. Henderson event. Prior to the Cormier bout, Mir was TKO&#8217;d in his bid to recapture the UFC heavyweight title by then champion Junior dos Santos at UFC 146.<\/p>\n<p>Those set backs marked the first back-to-back losses\u00a0in Frank Mir&#8217;s\u00a013-year MMA career.<\/p>\n<p>Most 34-year-old mixed martial arts veterans would likely\u00a0try to take a different path for the remainder of their combat sports careers, like filling up space on an event in order to obtain a paycheck. Not Mir, who declared during the UFC 164 media conference call that he still has championship dreams:<\/p>\n<p>In his words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t concede the fact of just trying to put on great fights. Obviously, the outcome of my drive is to actually work back towards the title. I don&#8217;t see it as a situation where that&#8217;s no longer within my grasp. The training I&#8217;m doing now, where I&#8217;m at in life, being only 34 years of age, I don&#8217;t really see it as an issue to concede to the fact that &#8216;Oh I&#8217;m only going to fight to be an entertaining fight just added onto a card.&#8217; That&#8217;s just not where I&#8217;m at in my life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><\/em>Mir will look to get back into the heavyweight title picture August 31 when he takes on Josh Barnett (32-6 MMA, 4-1 UFC)\u00a0in the co-main event of UFC 164 in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Mir still has a title-run left in him? Let&#8217;s hear it Penn Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite losing two straight fights inside the Octagon, former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir (16-7 MMA, 14-7 UFC) isn\u2019t ready to throw in the towel on his championship dream. 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