Comments Thread For: Steve Cunningham vs. Frank Mir in Play, Antonio Tarver is Out

[trippers1]

Cunningham will absolutely smash him. There's a kind of sick part of me that wants him to highlight reel KO him to kind of stop these fights happening in future.

[TMLT87]

Uss wins but I wont be surprised if its more competitive than people expect, and the excuses will come rolling in.

[baroidi]

I haven't followed MMA for a long time, but I remember Frank Mir when he came on the scene, he was primarily a ground submission fighter, did he develop a decent stand up game? Otherwise wtf is the point of this mismatch? Oh wait, it's on a youtuber's undercard smdh

[TMLT87]

I haven't followed MMA for a long time, but I remember Frank Mir when he came on the scene, he was primarily a ground submission fighter, did he develop a decent stand up game?

Compared to when he debuted yeah he did get much better in his stand up and did some damage to some good fighters on the feet - KO'ed Cro Cop, Big Nog, Bigfoot and iirc his win over Kongo was set up by him dropping Kongo with punches. Hes badly washed up now though.

[Get em up]

Why not have a sideshow attraction at the circus? In the main tent there is a youtuber vs a MMA guy so a **** show.... I mean side show is fitting

[hitmanjosh]

This kind of jacked up, y’all know dam well Tarver need the money with all that he had going on with baby mamas, pretty women expenses tax issues etc.

[aaronbnb]

Tarver was a good opponent for Frank Mir. Cunningham hurts him.

[tophat1]

This is as bad as it gets. Huge mismatch mir is shot to pieces at this point. Even when he was a top fighter he was a submission specialist. Cunningham will destroy him. If they are going to draft in ex mma guys they should at least be looking at the ones that specialised in stand up

[Eff Pandas]

Uss wins but I wont be surprised if its more competitive than people expect, and the excuses will come rolling in.

Have you watched a Frank Mir fight recently? Dude is slow as fook. His chin isn't good. I got serious doubts he could hold up his hands in a normal boxing position & move around the ring for 5 rounds let alone try to actually win the fight. Granted I was more confident of a early KO by Tarver than I am of Cunningham, but Cunningham is a lock to win here & I expect the odds be in the -3000, -5000 range so I guess with things being so wide Mir having one moment or landing 3 punches is more competitive than most think so you might not be wrong at those low expectations.

[Kannabis Kid]

I mean Cunningham is not the biggest puncher and Mir has been in there with some big guys some of them would have to cut weight to make the 265lb limit I could see this fight going rounds with Steve completely outboxing him and if anything a mid to late round stoppage due to excessive blows but **** who knows if Cunningham laid him out I wouldn't be mad dude has an iron will and always gave a 100 in every fight plus he fights for a reason he has a sick daughter so I'm sure he's getting paid well for this I'm for it.