The heavyweight division never ages. That much is clear when you consider in 2015, over a decade after they first staked their claims as UFC champions, Frank Mir and Andrei Arlovski are about to meet each other at UFC 191 with genuine title implications on the line. No matter how many times you read it, that sentence will never cease being strange.
For Mir, the circumstances that led to this point were unexpected in two separate ways. Most obviously, Mir was all but assumed to be done last year once Alistair Overeem painted him 10 shades of dark crimson in the defining moment of a career-worst four-fight losing streak.