Scandalul declanşat de declaraţiile lui Frank Mir, care spunea că îl va omorî în cuşca UFC pe Brock Lesnar, a stârnit un val de reacţii în USA. Printre multele critici aduse fostului campion UFC, au fost şi câţiva care nu au reacţionat vehement, aducând aminte publicului că au mai existat astfel de declaraţii, dar care nu au stârnit atât de multe controverse. Iată câteva dintre acestea:

“Georges, I’m going to go to the death. I’m going to try to kill you and I’m not joking about this.”
BJ to GSP

“I consider you a master, and it’s time to kill that master.”
Kenny Florian to BJ

“I’m gonna try to kill him.”
Chuck Liddell on Tito Ortiz

“I’m gonna beat you into a living death”
Ken Shamrock, also to Tito Ortiz, curiously

“He is going to have to kill me, and I will have to kill him to beat him out there, and that’s what we’ll do to each other.”
Cain Velasquez on Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

“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.”
Frank Mir on Brock Lesnar