Inför helgens debut i den nya sporten “Triad Combat” berättar Frank Mir att han får den största lönen i karriären.
Frank Mir får sin största lön i karriären
Nu till helgen kommer organisationen Triller att debutera sin nya sport, “Triad Combat”, vilket beskrivits som boxning i en triangulär ring. Detta dessutom med aningen andra regler från vanlig boxning, då det är tillåtet med clinch och där alla slag mot tillåtna delar på kroppen är tillåtna. En av de medverkande, den tidigare tungviktsmästaren i UFC, Frank Mir (19-13), menar att matchen innebär hans största lön i sin kampsportskarriär.
Under en medverkan i “The MMA Hour” så kunde Mir avslöja att lönen för helgens match kommer att vara i närheten av en miljon dollar men mer exakt än så ville han inte vara.
The second Brock Lesnar fight at UFC 100 was close, but that was the second-biggest of my career. But no, this one is the biggest. In fact, if I hit my bonuses and I win, I’m basically touching on seven figures, and I’ve never been within a couple $100,000 of that in the MMA world.
Underbetald i tidigare matcher
Mir menar att detta får honom att tänka tillbaka på sin karriär och hur underbetald han varit i och med karriärens största matcher.
I think that’s a testament to what Triller is doing, pushing the paydays and sharing the income. I mean, here, I realized this a couple years ago, this is kind of bittersweet for me, I looked at the amount of pay-per-view buys that Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury sold, and what they took home for paydays. Me and Brock sold more pay-per-views, and I didn’t take nowhere near as much as either one of them. I think Brock and I, combined, didn’t take 10 percent of what they did.
Vill fokusera på stående aspekter
Nu när han är i slutet av sin karriär menar Mir att han fokuserar på att ha kul och att visa upp sina stående kunskaper mer än sin grappling.
The last part of my career, I’ve been really pushing to try different things and really push the striking aspect of my martial arts training. I always felt I had the Michael Vick curse, every time I fight an MMA fight, even if I knock out Mirko Cro Cop or Cheick Kongo with an overhand left, everybody talks about submissions; which, I’m accomplished there, but now I’m a part-owner of Syndicate now and I’m coaching there, and my daughter obviously now with her career, I wanted to push and showcase that I’m skilled in all aspects of MMA. In fact, in my opinion, I’m the most knowledgeable MMA fighter that there is in the world, and so I just wanted to showcase that also my striking skills are also very knowledgeable, I knew what I was doing. So I jumped into the boxing match with Steve Cunningham and I think I made a good showing of my boxing range there. And here, when this opportunity came up, I was like, oh, trying new things and pushing myself. It still doesn’t allow me to do takedowns or use my ground skills, but I think this definitely helps close the gap as far as competing with a boxer, because now I can utilize my clinch.
Taktiken inför helgens match
Inför helgens match menar Mir att han kommer att fokusera på de aspekter som inte tillhör vanlig boxning och att han kommer att försöka gå in i clinch efter varje slag som träffar.
I just make it everything but a boxing match. It’s too close to the fight to really worry about letting the cat out of the bag, but yeah, behind every punch, he’s not going to be able to throw combos. Every punch, I’m grabbing him afterwards, and then I’m going to work the clinch and just drag on him and really push his grappling cardio, which he doesn’t have to the experience that I do. It’s different. You can ask anybody’s who’s fought MMA — the first time you wrestled with somebody, stood up, and then you had to throw punches again? It’s a different feeling, and it takes a lot of acclamation. I have 20 years of doing it, and my endurance and my understanding of how it works, being relaxed and able to still fire off. So obviously boxing at range, even if I thought I was better than him at that, why would I? That’s what he’s best at, where he’s most comfortable, where his heart rate is going to be low. I’m going to jump on him and rag-doll the hell out of him.
Mir kommer att ställas mot Kubrat Pulev nu till helgen under Trillers första “Triad Combat” gala.
