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"I want to fight Brock Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies to Octagon-related injuries."
-These comments are attributed to Frank Mir from an interview with Mark Madden on WXDX Radio, per a story at F4WOnline.com.
Penick's Analysis: It just boggles my mind that so many people are so against Brock Lesnar that they completely overlooked just who he was reacting to in his post-UFC 100 rant. For all of the highly negative things Frank Mir has said about opponents in the past, and especially about Lesnar, this is one of the most ridiculously unbelievable comments to have ever come out of his mouth.
Obviously it's meant to get a rise, and it will, out of whoever heard it or reads it, but it is 100% one of the stupidest ways to build heat for a potential rubber match with Lesnar. First off, he needs to get past Shane Carwin, which won't be a cakewalk. Second, how much did he cry foul at the "disrespect" shown to him by Lesnar after UFC 100? He wants to call out Brock for being disrespectful, and yet it's somehow alright for him, in his mind, to literally say he wants Lesnar to be the first person to die from a fight in the Octagon.
It's precisely comments like these that justify how Lesnar reacted at UFC 100, and on top of that it's the last thing this sport needs. Whether tongue in cheek, whether he was being facetious and not the least bit serious, to say that you want to break someone's neck and want them to die from their injuries in a fight doesn't do a whole lot to showcase the "sport" to those who are still looking at it as a barbaric undertaking. This is just ridiculous on multiple levels, and he's simply succeeded in making even more people hope he gets smashed once again by Brock Lesnar (if he gets past Shane Carwin. He should do more to concentrate on that fight and less to continue throwing out asinine threatening comments towards Lesnar).
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