Frank Mir is not a fan of slapping combat, including Dana White’s Power Slap League
Frank Mir, 47, is scheduled to make his final walk to the cage in August with his 20-year-old daughter, miracle Bella Mir. talk with TalkSPORTMir shared his honest thoughts on slapping fights, a sport that seems to have taken the internet by storm in recent years.
“I’m a huge hater of slap fights,” Mir said. “Actually, if I’m scrolling through anything on social media and I see anything come up, I try to scroll through it as fast as I can, so the algorithm doesn’t read that I want to see any of that rubbish. I think that’s one of the things I want to fix in our sport.” .
Frank Mir’s comments come on the heels of former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia’s debut in the controversial sport under the SlapFight Championship banner. “The Maine-iac” got the win over The Bouncer this past weekend after five rounds of back-and-forth split-head action. Sylvia, who was very open about his financial hardship after a reluctant retirement in 2015, walked away from MMA after saying he had “taken enough damage over the course of 16 years.”
Frank Mir wants to help fix the problem of fighter compensation in MMA
Once Frank Mir closes the book on his legendary career this summer, the former UFC heavyweight champion hopes to help the next generation of fighters become more financially secure as they approach retirement, keeping them from engaging in sports like slap fighting to make ends meet.
“You know, when an NFL player goes bust three years into his career, no one sits there and goes, ‘Well, the NFL didn’t pay him enough.’ No, they have a player union, he got paid, he got paid.” On compensation, he just went out like an idiot and was throwing $100,000 parties,” Mir continued. “When you see an MMA fighter struggling after his career, people don’t really say, ‘Oh, he didn’t manage his money well. It’s, “Well, they don’t get compensated for what they generate.”
“If you look at some of the numbers we get from pay-per-views and how much fighters get paid – that’s one of the things I want to fix in our industry. A much smaller part goes to promotion. We’re not going to become millionaires behind fighters. The show has to make money so we can Continuing to put on a show but at the same time the fighters themselves are the most compensated.”