Mir: "His game plan is to try to land the home-run shot. As far as boxing, he can't outbox me, I'm a better pure boxer. Pure wrestling, I'm a better wrestler. Jiu-jitsu … we're not even in the same league. I'm bigger, stronger and I'm the better athlete, and I'm a few years younger. … He has a lot of mystique around him. He's Russian, he doesn't talk a lot. There's a little bit of mysticism behind him. But I'm a realist. I see good and bad. I see a guy who struggled with (Chicago native) Brett Rogers because he doesn't know how to fight in a cage properly. Right now you could've got me in January when I was 300 pounds and I'm not going to struggle with Brett Rogers. But I also see a good athlete who has a lot of heart."