Finally got around to seeing this fight tonight as Spike/UFC tried to counter-program the StrikeForce card on Showtime.
The sad thing about Mir's destruction at the hand of Shane Carwin is that it was so clear that all Frank has been focused on since getting finished by Brock Lesnar was getting bigger. It didn't look like anything else mattered. Mir looked big, thick around the middle, and had no technical solutions for anything that Shane came with. The fact that all Carwin came with was a clinch against the fence and some one-armed dirty boxing is all the more telling.
It's a lesson for us all - that it is critical to learn the right lessons from defeat. In trying to fight the last war against Lesnar, Mir lost the war that was right in front of him in Carwin.
