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Frank Mir Credits Hard Boxing Sparring for Ability to Survive Slugfest with Todd Duffee

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Frank Mir made his name in the UFC as a ground specialist, thanks in large part to bone-snapping submissions against the likes of Tim Sylvia and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira earlier in his career.

All told, the former heavyweight champion owns eight submission victories in the Octagon, an impressive array of limbs that also includes Cheick Kongo, Tank Abbott and Brock Lesnar. But at point in his career when many fighters are doing their best to counteract Father Time’s effect on the chin, the 36-year-old Mir is reinventing himself as something of a knockout artist.