Couture innovated the style called dirty boxing. The former UFC heavyweight champion made a surprise return at the WWE Summerslam pay-per-view event on Saturday night right after Roman Reigns defeated John Cena in the main. The uproar was all too real and it came as no surprise that Mir had to apologise. His UFC 91 main event against Brock Lesnar was the first UFC PPV to draw more than 1 million viewers. Fighters have died in combat sports whether it be MMA, boxing or any others down the years and the MMA community were immediately livid. I want him to be the first person that dies to Octagon-related injuries.” Speaking to WXDX-FM, he exclaimed: “I want to fight Brock Lesnar. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has informed Brock Lesnar of a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation stemming from an out-of-competition sample. While Lesnar took too things too far inside the octagon, Mir did the same in the press. 'The UFC organization was notified today that the U.S. The bad blood coming out of the rematch was something fierce, even by UFC standards. “The only thing I had against Frank was he beat me,” referring to their previous fight. That led to the new undisputed heavyweight champion apologising at the post-fight press conference.

The former WWE champion proceeded stick both his middle fingers up at the crowd after they booed his lack of sportsmanship, he refused to endorse the beer that sponsored the event because they hadn’t paid him – an event that netted him $3 millon – and he said he’d torn a lucky “horseshoe” out of Mir’s butt and “beat the hell out of him with it” in some wild metaphor.Īfter the event, UFC boss Dana White was furious with Lesnar and scolded him backstage. He promptly demolished Mir in two rounds, but as Mir was recovering from being knocked out, Lesnar was in his bloody face screaming at him. They met at UFC 100 and Lesnar refused to touch gloves before the fight. The crowd booed him, so he returned the favour with commentator Joe Rogan pointing out ‘that’s not going to win him any fans’

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