Frank Mir: Junior Dos Santos hates to be grappled and avoids it like its poison – UFC news
Frank Mir, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion, shared his thoughts about Junior Dos Santos, the current heavyweight champion, and commented that Santos tries his level best to evade a takedown scenario adding that it seems like
poison to him most probably because he is too good on his feet.
Frank and Junior Dos Santos are scheduled to take on each other in UFC 146 and will headline the pay-per-view. The special edition will be televised live on May 26, 2012 from Mandalay Bay Events Center situated in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Santos will defend his UFC heavyweight title for the second time and will enter his career’s 15th bout. Junior Dos Santos has emerged victorious in a total 14 bouts and has lost just one to Joaquim Ferreira.
He has nailed 10 of his total opponents by knockout and collected just two wins by submission and another two by decision. The 27-year-old Brazilian proud is considered as one of the most lethal belligerents in the whole of UFC.
Frank, on the other hand, has been in a total 21 bouts and emerged victorious in 16. He has nailed nine of his opponents by submission and is undoubtedly considered as the best jiu-jitsu brawler in the whole of UFC who even made Dos Santos’ mentor submit
in his last bout.
During the media interaction, Frank, who is basically a replacement for Alistair Overeem, commented that Santos is a brawler who tries to keep himself away from a scenario where a takedown is involved adding that it is this reason why he has never been grappled
by any of his opponents.
Mir added that one can see Dos Santos play sometimes with his opponents but he only does so when he is sure of the fact that he is triumphant. Frank stated that the reason for this most probably is either he does not possess the ability to undergo a ground
game or he is too agile on his feet.
Frank remarked, “Obviously, we’re fighting a guy who’s made his career now of not going to the ground. As far as, you see when people engage him, he’s a ‘throw punches and run’ kind of guy. He doesn’t wanna sit there and get grabbed and taken down. He's
not gonna fight that battle. If he was capable of doing it, we probably would’ve seen it already. The fact is that he avoids it like it’s poison. I think for two reasons: One, I don’t he’s probably that very good on the ground, and two, he is so good on his
feet.”
The UFC 146 pay-per-view is unique in the sense that all the bouts are being fought for the very first time in the history of UFC in heavyweight division.
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