{"id":67383,"date":"2013-08-26T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=67383"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:52:38","slug":"barnett-ready-to-defend-his-ufc-title-against-frank-mir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/barnett-ready-to-defend-his-ufc-title-against-frank-mir\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnett Ready To Defend &#8216;His&#8217; UFC Title Against Frank Mir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/JoshBarnett1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26157\" title=\"JoshBarnett\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/JoshBarnett1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/JoshBarnett1.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/JoshBarnett1-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWhen I walk in the ring, in my mind, I\u2019m making my first title defense. That\u2019s the way I see it. We\u2019ve always been in different places, even when he was fighting for titles. No one ever took my belt from me, so I don\u2019t know what belt they were swinging around, but that wasn\u2019t the UFC heavyweight title as far as I was concerned and I was off at Pride fighting the top dudes in the world at the time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former UFC Heavyweight champion Josh Barnett recently told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/josh-barnett-ready-to-make-the-first-defense-of-the-ufc-title-he-won-a-decade-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmaweekly.com<\/a> that his upcoming UFC 164 co-main event against Frank Mir will serve as the first title defense of his UFC heavyweight championship reign.<\/p>\n<p>At UFC 36 Barnett stopped the legend, Randy Couture, with punches in the second round to become the UFC heavyweight champion. He was later stripped from his title for testing positive for banned substances.<\/p>\n<p>He immediately fled the American MMA scene and spent the next five-years in Japan&#8217;s fighting circuit until returning stateside for Affliction and Strikeforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I walk in the ring, in my mind, I\u2019m making my first title defense. That\u2019s the way I see it. We\u2019ve always been in different places, even when he was fighting for titles. 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