Shortly before current Light Heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier’s debut fight in Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), I stumbled upon a truly bizarre phenomenon while trudging through one of the sport’s many appalling forums: The "Frank Mir Curse," one of the rare absolutes in a uniquely volatile sport.
In short: if you beat Frank Mir, you will lose your next fight. Counting the odd instance wherein Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin had each beaten Mir in their latest fights, resulting in Lesnar winning that bout and then losing his next one, this happened to six consecutive fighters without fail.