UFC 119 Preview: Frank Mir Talks Mirko Cro Cop - "I'll Submit Him in the First Round" UFC Heavyweight FRANK MIR sits down with RawVegas.tv to talk about the vacation time he's taken rather than train too hard for his UFC 119 bout against Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic since "Cro Cop" has suggested he will not be coming into this fight at 100 percent; Mir wants to keep things fair. by Nick Thomas on Sep 12, 2010 10:27 AM EDT

[caption id="attachment_4376" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption="Frank Mir Pummeled - UFC 111 - Jon Kopaloff - Getty Images"][/caption]   The UFC championship fight between mega-heavyweights Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin has passed a key hurdle as both men have signed bout agreements to compete at UFC 116 on July 3 as expected. Multiple sources have confirmed that both competitors agreed to the fight, which has been targeted by the UFC since Lesnar's health problems cleared up and Carwin won his March UFC 111 bout against Frank Mir in short order. The fight should be officially announced sometime within the next two ...

Brock Lesnar just so happens to be one of those types of athletes that no matter what he says or what he does, the fans (for one reason or another) just can't seem to get enough of him (just ask Frank Mir). Not that it’s all positive, of course. For as many fans that seem to love Brock Lesnar (oh yes fight fans...they definitely exist), just as many, if not more, seem to really despise who he is as a person, and what they perceive he represents. Oh well...love him or hate him, the reality is that ...

  Brock Lesnar will look to return to action in July against new interim heavyweight champion Shane Carwin. Waiting in the shadows for the winner of that fight will be Cain Velasquez, who will likely sit and wait for his title shot until after the unification bout this summer. UFC president Dana White commented on the status of the next two contenders in the heavyweight division on Saturday night after UFC 111 ended in Newark, N.J. To hear White tell it, Velasquez has already done enough to fight for the title and now it's just a matter of waiting for one champion to stand tall. Then he'll get his shot. "Cain's waiting ...

Shane Carwin is bright enough to handle the demands of a full-time job as a civil and mechanical engineer in northern Colorado. Maybe then, he'd be so kind as to explain the science behind the mind-scrambling statistics he's compiled. Twelve fights, 12 first-round stoppage victories. "I'm wordless. I'm speechless," was all he could muster after smashing his way through his latest victim, the one-time undisputed and one-time interim UFC champion Frank Mir at UFC 111. The challenges though, continue to get bigger, and the next problem the engineer must solve is the biggest in MMA right now: UFC heavyweight champion Brock ...