<header class="header"> [h=1]Frank Mir, Alistair Overeem added to November's UFC 167 in Las Vegas[/h] by Matt Erickson on Sep 05, 2013 at 9:55 pm ET 33 211 1 407 </header> The UFC's 20th anniversary show in Las Vegas just got about 500 pounds bigger. A heavyweight bout between former UFC champion Frank Mir (16-8 MMA, 14-8 UFC) and former Strikeforce champ Alistair Overeem (36-13 MMA, 1-2 UFC) is the latest fight on the bill at UFC 167. UFC officials on Thursday confirmed an initial report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. UFC 167 takes place Nov. 16 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas with a main card on pay-per-view following prelims on FOX Sports 1 and Facebook. The main event is a welterweight title fight between champion Georges St-Pierre and top contender Johny Hendricks. A co-main event light heavyweight bout between former champ Rashad Evans and former two-division title challenger Chael Sonnen recently was added. Overeem is ranked No. 8 and Mir No. 12 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA heavyweight rankings. Mir will be looking to rebound from three consecutive losses, the first losing skid of his career. Just this past Saturday at UFC 164 in Milwaukee, he was stopped by Josh Barnett in the first round of the card's co-main event. Mir popped up quickly, objecting to the stoppage and saying he could have continued. But it was a TKO loss nonetheless At UFC 146 in May 2012, he lost a title shot against then-champ Junior dos Santos after he had put together three straight wins over Mirko Filipovic, Roy Nelson and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. But after the loss to JDS, he lost to Daniel Cormier in April. Now his UFC career could be on the line against Overeem. Overeem needs a win, as well. After a victory in his UFC debut against Brock Lesnar, he earned a title shot. But after testing for elevated testosterone levels, he was pulled from the fight and that shot went to Mir, instead. When he returned against Antonio Silva at UFC 156 in February, he dominated "Bigfoot" through two rounds – then got knocked out in the third. Against Travis Browne in August, he again was dominant early – but Browne survived and moments later knocked Overeem out with a head kick. Before the Silva loss in February, the feared Dutch striker, a renowned kickboxer, had a stretch of more than five years without a setback. With the addition to the card, UFC 167 now includes: Georges St-Pierre vs. Johny Hendricks - for welterweight title Rashad Evans vs. Chael Sonnen Frank Mir vs. Alistair Overeem Robbie Lawler vs. Rory MacDonald Josh Koscheck vs. Tyron Woodley
I think this is a win for reem. Who ever loses the fight will most likely be cut from the UFC. But i cant see Frank surviving reem's early onslaught.
Must win fight for either man, no doubt about it. Maybe Mir wouldn't be cut if he lose due to him being a face of the UFC hw division for so long, but The Reem would definitively be a goner. Luckily for him, I don't see Mir withsanding his early onslaught, Mir seems totally imopotent when someone push him back and press him against the fence and Reem is probably the best in the world at this game.
Overeem is still with UFC only because he has a 3 fight contract right? I'm sure they would have cut him already if that wasn't the case. Anyway Overeem without his candy is like the Incredible Hulk in a good mood. Having said that Mir sucks more kinds of dicks than Kneel so this is a pretty even fight. I see Mir weathering some of Ovreem's overrated striking attacks and finishing an exhausted Overeem 3/4 into the second round. If Overeem loses they for sure will not only cut him but never ever again hire him. If Frank loses I think he will be kept around. He is still young, has a huge name, and they won't want to send him to Bellator. To be fair to Mir, he fought some top tiers in his recent loses (don't also has a recent win over Nelson too), he will be kept around, just offered next money on a new contract.
Well, we can blame his lack of steroids for Overeem recent losses but, facts are, he was dominating both before his gas tank and shaky chin let him down. The same two hindrances that plagued him throughout his career, and he never showed they were things of the past, even during his recent winning run.
That would be bad business. UFC is all about good business. Why pay him for nothing? He still has a name, and tendency of getting knocked out in spectacular fashion.
They should keep Mir around to do color commentary, which he was good at in WEC. Win, lose or draw, his fighting days should end with this fight. Overeem just needs to go. TFK
Mir was absolutely great when he was commentating for the WEC. I've grown attached to Rogan and Goldberg but Mir could replace Florian or Anik tomorrow and I wouldn't mind. By the way, Mir-Overeem is a terrible mismatch. Mir has consistently collapsed against big punchers if he gets hit. As pathetic as Overeem is, Mir will shell up and be finished within 2 minutes. It sucks too because Mir is a talented guy and is relatively well-rounded. Unfortunately his chin is shit and he doesn't seem to have the heart to take any punishment. Hell, he was folding in the rematch with Nog when he pulled off the submission. Otherwise he'd have lost 4 in a row. And the more I think about it, how pathetic is it that Cormier never came close to stopping Mir?
