Mir offers less cock when it comes to Anderson Silva

A couple of weeks ago it came out that UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva is interested in fighting Frank Mir at heavyweight. It’s a half-crazy “what if?” kind of scenarios that may never happen. Too bad, too, because Mir says he’d be happy to oblige Silva.

In an interview with Mir over on Sherdog, the heavyweight – who last lost to Brock Lesnar and next faces Cheick Kongo – says, “It would be a pleasure. It would be like saying you get to go in there and hit Tom Brady.”

That’s only the first of several entertaing things Mir has to say about the hypothetical match-up and how it might play out. And he’s surprisingly less cocky than he usually is, even tacitly acknowledging that he is one of the easier targets for Silva at heavyweight, in particular because Mir has “one of the weaker shots in the heavyweight division.”

I especially like that Mir wants to do it for the challenge, for the honour of stepping in against one of the best, the same as if they resurrected Bruce Lee and offered Mir a fight with him. “What if I lose? Who cares, man? Go to war, go to battle and get something out of it. Going into a fight with Anderson, I will gain things on a personal level.”

I have little interest in seeing Silva fight at heavyweight. There’s too much to settle and middleweight and light heavyweight for him to make yet another division jump. But Mir makes the hypothetical fight sound pretty entertaining.