“If the two of us were standing in a bar,” Mir said during a pre-fight press conference, “I’d probably pick on me before I picked on him.”
Alas, the battlefields of mixed martial arts past are littered with appearances-can-be-deceiving lessons in which smaller men rose up to topple stronger adversaries. In fact, Mir defeated Lesnar the first time the two met, as he coaxed a tapout from the former World Wrestling Entertainment superstar with a first-round kneebar at UFC 81.
Lesnar wants revenge.
“I’m a sore loser,” he said. “I want my hand raised at the end. That’s the bottom line.”