{"id":3877,"date":"2009-12-14T19:36:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2009-12-14T19:36:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:36:50","slug":"mir-back-in-the-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"Mir Back in the Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z121409mir.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Mir&#8217;s <\/strong>crushing defeat of <strong>Cheick Congo<\/strong> this <strong>Saturday<\/strong> has thrust him back into the hunt for the <strong>heavyweight title<\/strong>.\u00a0 Consider that <strong>Congo<\/strong> was considered the striker and<strong> Mir <\/strong>nearly KO&#8217;d <strong>Congo<\/strong> with his first shot.\u00a0 Then <strong>Mir <\/strong>choked <strong>Congo <\/strong>out taking just 12 seconds over a minute to end the fight.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently two top contenders, [<strong>Shane Carwin <\/strong>and <strong>Cain Velasquez<\/strong>] that most fans would like to see fight <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> for the title.\u00a0 <strong>Shane Carwin<\/strong> was set to be <strong>Lesnar&#8217;s next opponent<\/strong> since he&#8217;s the <strong>number one contender<\/strong>.\u00a0 That fight has been put on hold while <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> deals with a private medical condition that could put him out of the fight game for good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dana White<\/strong> has said that a decision will be made in the next six to eight weeks if there will be an interim title until <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> can return to the cage.\u00a0 If so, it makes sense that <strong>Carwin <\/strong>would fight <strong>Velasquez<\/strong> for the interim championship.\u00a0 But, the fact that when <strong>Velasquez<\/strong> fought <strong>Cheick Congo <\/strong>the fight went to a decision, might make a great argument to make the interim title fight<strong> Carwin vs Mir<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, I don&#8217;t care who gets the interim title.\u00a0 I&#8217;d just love to see <strong>Mir<\/strong> enter the octagon against a healthy <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> for a third time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Mir&#8217;s crushing defeat of Cheick Congo this Saturday has thrust him back into the hunt for the heavyweight title.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}