Former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir was reluctant to accept a fight with Andrei Arlovski.
Frank Mir and Andrei Arlovski have many things in common: both are former UFC heavyweight champions and esteemed veterans of the sport, both have suffered career-threatening setbacks and persevered through adversity, and both men are ranked in the top 10 at 36-years-old.
Mir was on a four-fight losing skid and seemingly on the brink of retirement in 2014, but two back-to-back knockouts over Antonio Silva and Todd Duffee have reinvented the jiujitsu ace as a top contender.