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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Frank Mir has lost three fights in a row into Saturday night's UFC 169 event, and the UFC hasn't committed to keeping either he or Alistair Overeem on the roster with a loss. Despite that, Mir isn't looking to retire no matter what happens on Saturday.
His three straight losses all came to top level competition, as he was taken out by Junior dos Santos, lost a decision to Daniel Cormier, and stopped by Josh Barnett. He doesn't see those losses as indicative of a need to retire.
"I kind of know no matter what it's not going to be my last fight," Mir said in an interview with ESPN.com. "I'm still younger than a lot of the guys in the division. There are two ways I would consider retirement. One is losing to guys who are not top-level competition. The other is if I started losing where it's like, 'OK man, you were knocked out viciously and staring at the rafters.' I won't endanger my health."
"I'm sorry if those three losses aren't killing my ego. Let's see, the losing streak started with Junior dos Santos, the No. 1 heavyweight in the world at the time. Then I lost to Cormier in a pretty boring fight and then to Barnett, which to me was a no-contest because the fight had a very controversial stoppage. Look at who I've fought. I should retire? Wow. We'd only have five guys in every weight class because everybody else would need to retire."
Penick's Analysis: There's some merit to this for sure, but I have no idea what the UFC will do with him if he loses four straight. They may give him another fight down lower on the card, but I don't know if that's something they're going to look to do. That said, what he really needs to do is win, because four straight losses takes away any interest in seeing him anyway.
[Frank Mir art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]
Source: http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publish/UFC_2/article_20085.shtml
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