"Right now I have a couple months off, so I've actually been toying with the idea of maybe going down a weight class. Since I don't have a fight for a couple months, I've just been watching what I eat and see how my body without trying to put size on -- where my natural weight will fall at now since I have lifted a lot lately to add size. I'm kind of curious where I think I would fall at, because some of the guys I train with that are light heavyweight our bone structures are the same. Sometimes I stand next to Forrest (Griffin) and I think I'm in the wrong weight class." -Frank Mir

Frank Mir at light-heavyweight? Could be very interesting indeed.

Until recently the former UFC heavyweight champion had been experimenting with gaining weight in an effort to keep up with the heavyweight divisions' recent trend of going bigger.

Mir's last two losses came against current UFC champion Brock Lesnar, who has to cut to make the heavyweight limit of 265-pounds, and top contender Shane Carwin, who walks around naturally at the 265-pound limit.

Mir was soundly defeated by both fighters.

Provided he could make the drop to the light-heavyweight limit of 205-pounds, Mir would be a very interesting addition to the already stacked division. Mir's excellent ground game, striking, and highly underrated wrestling skills would instantly propel him to the top of the divisions' food chain.

Matchups against the likes of current light-heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, former champions Lyoto Machida, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans, and even middleweight champion Anderson Silva would be highly anticipated by fans and pundits of the sport alike.

However, if there were ever a case for an MMA cruiserweight division, Mir would certainly be the poster child. He's 2-2 in his past four fights. Both losses coming against men who weighed in at 265-pounds the day before the fight, both wins came against men weighing less than 240-pounds.

The gap between 205-pounds and 265-pounds is an absolute chasm with many fighters stuck in limbo. 60-pounds separate the two divisions, with the next biggest gap being the 20-pound difference from middleweight to light-heavyweight.

A 225-pound cruserweight division would provide a shot in the arm to fighters like Mir who are too light to compete against the giants of the division, and may be too heavy to drop to light-heavyweight.

The new weight class has already been implemented on an amateur basis by the Ohio State Athletic Commission and, if deemed successful could, and should, find it's way to the pro ranks, and the UFC specifically.

With a flood of relatively new extra large heavyweights like Todd Duffee, Stefan Struve, Bobby Lashley, Brett Rogers, Ron Sparks, and others who naturally walk around close to the heavyweight limit of 265-pounds, fighters weighing 240-pounds or less should have another option.