{"id":354230,"date":"2010-02-23T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-223192:1"},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:40:13","slug":"white-flips-his-lid-over-mir-the-apologies-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354230","title":{"rendered":"White flips his lid over Mir: The apologies are in"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Frank Mir opened a can of worms with his comments<\/a> about wanting to break Brock Lesnar’s neck. He also said he wanted Lesnar to be first death in the Octagon. His boss Dana White reacted in his typical short, sweet and explosive fashion.  <\/p>\n

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"Mir is a [expletive] idiot! I have never heard something so unprofessional and idiotic in my life," White told Carmichael Dave of KHTK<\/a> in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I know what you’re thinking. White doesn’t exactly have a clean slate when it comes to offending people. You’ll remember last April, he got in some hot water for a rant that was deemed by some to be homophobic and sexist<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

UPDATE: Here we go! In this day and age of ridiculous and unnecessary apologies it sounds like Mir is about to fall in line. Dave spoke with Mir’s wife Jennifer, who made these comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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"Frank will be making a statement this afternoon from the UFC headquarters.
\nFrank is disturbed by the reaction to his comments regarding Brock Lesnar. Frank
\nis a warrior and an ambassador for this sport. After his statement, he will not
\nbe speaking about Brock again, and will choose to instead focus on his next
\nopponent, Shane Carwin." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read Dave’s reaction to this fiasco<\/a> on the KHTK website.  <\/p>\n

UPDATE II: The apology is here<\/a> at UFC.com.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Dana White: <\/p>\n

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"I was disappointed by Frank Mir’s comments. Frank’s been with the UFC a long
\ntime, he’s a two-time heavyweight champion and a commentator for the WEC. I
\nthink his emotions are running high right now, he has a big fight coming up next
\nmonth and he’s still upset about his loss to Lesnar.  He’s been talked to, he
\nregrets what he said, and he won’t be saying anything like that again."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Frank Mir:  <\/p>\n

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"I would like to apologize to Brock Lesnar<\/a>,
\nhis family, the UFC and the UFC fans for my stupid remarks. I
\nrespect Brock, all the other fighters, and the sport of mixed martial arts. I’m
\nsorry that I stepped out of line." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frank Mir opened a can of worms with his comments about wanting to break Brock Lesnar’s neck. He also said he wanted Lesnar to be first death in the Octagon. His boss Dana White reacted in his typical short, sweet and explosive fashion.  "Mir is a [expletive] idiot! I have never heard something so unprofessional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}