Former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir has never made secret of his dislike for current champion Brock Lesnar, but his verbal attacks grew a bit more heated in a recent radio interview.

Mir has faced Lesnar twice in his career, and both times the trash-talking beforehand has been intense. Now Mir, who will next face Shane Carwin at UFC 111, does not seem to need an imminent match-up with the champ to get his bile flowing.

Mir hopes to face Lesnar for the third time later this year for another shot at the title if he is successful in his upcoming match up against Carwin on March 27. Speaking to WXDX Radio in a recent interview, Mir controversially stated his feelings for the champ, and expressed his desire to face him again.

"A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct," Mir stated. "I'd rather go ahead and say what's on my mind than to sit there and come up with some P.C., 'Oh, the guy is a great fighter, and I have a lot of respect for him.' If I don't mean it, why is it even coming out of my mouth? I want to fight Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies due to Octagon-related injuries. That's what's going through my mind."

Even in a sport where trash-talking is commonplace, comments like this raise more than a few eyebrows. Curiously enough, Mir felt the need to back up his remarks by commenting on children who look up to mixed martial artists as role models.

"He doesn't like me. And I can guarantee, you talk to anybody in my family, it's a legitimate hate," Mir fumed. "His very being bugs me. Just because I've seen a lot of children out there who look to athletes, and martial artists as role models, and it just makes me cringe. I sit there and go, 'Man, I lost to this guy the second time around, and now people think that's the way to be -- be big, obnoxious and angry.' That's not right. We have anger toward each other. Everything I stand for he despises and dislikes. And I can tell you, I truly do not like him as a person whatsoever."

Mir and Lesnar currently stand at 1-1 in their career rivalry. The first time the two met was in Lesnar's UFC debut at UFC 81, when Mir emerged victorious via a first-round submission over his much larger opponent. That fight generated some controversy over a call by referee Steve Mazzagatti, who stopped the action and stood the two fighters up following an illegal punch by Lesnar to the back of Mir's head. The standup allowed Mir time to recover and later catch the less experienced Lesnar in a kneebar to end the fight.

The second time Mir and Lesnar faced-off was to unify the heavyweight title at the UFC's historic 100th event. At that time, Mir held the UFC's interim heavyweight title, while Lesnar was defending his heavyweight title for the first time, after winning it from Randy Couture. In that fight, a dominant Lesnar unleashed a brutal ground-and-pound attack to finish Mir via second-round TKO. Lesnar followed up his performance with obscene gestures to the fans, and a series of vulgar comments that later led him to publicly apologize, and which set the stage for even more verbal exchanges between the two fighters.

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