Jim Miller is at least confident.
While speaking to Michael Bisping, UFC fighter Anthony Smith stated that he believes a fight between Jim Miller and Brock Lesnar would be 50/50.
Miller has spent the majority of his career fighting at lightweight (155 pounds) while Lesnar fought at Heavyweight (265 pounds).
Miller was asked for his thoughts on Anthony’s comments.
“The mentality has to be there. When you start walking to the Octagon, it is the loneliest place on the planet. I firmly believe, in training, you’re an up-and-comer. Training like the guy you’re fighting is better than you and doing more than you and doing it better than you are. The moment it’s fight day, you have to be the most confident person on the planet. Yeah, it’d be scary as shit, but I’m going to walk to that Octagon, hopefully knowing my bank account is going to get a big bump, like, ‘Hey, we’re going to take this.’ I’ve trained with plenty of heavyweights through the years. My team now is a little smaller than me. I don’t like to bring up, training is training, I’m not a fan of keeping score. I’ve trained with plenty of heavyweight world champion grapplers, and I’ve subbed them. I know that if I isolate something, I could kimura Brock Lesnar, I know that I could. I can lift enough, I can deadlift over 500 pounds, I can straighten the guy’s arm, he can’t single arm curl 500 pounds. It’s about isolating. It’s gonna suck, I don’t want to be underneath him. I appreciate the push, yeah, we’ll take it, 50/50,” Miller said with some laughs.
Jim Miller reacts to Anthony Smith saying he has a 50/50 chance against Brock Lesnar pic.twitter.com/WZVAFtCAsF
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A fight between Lesnar and Miller would likely not be sanctioned by any athletic commission.
Miller has 19 career victories by submission. He set to fight Gabriel Benítez on January 13. Lesnar has not fought since UFC 200 in 2016, which was originally a unanimous decision victory over Mark Hunt, but overturned after Lesnar tested positive for a banned substance.
