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Former UFC heavyweight champ Frank Mir had almost passed airport security in Brazil when he was waved back. Something was inside his luggage.
“I have a bunch of different gym bags, too many bags that I use, and my backpack, I guess, I hadn’t used it since I went shooting last,†Mir (16-9 MMA, 14-9 UFC) today told MMAjunkie Radio from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he meets Antonio “Bigfoot†Silva (18-6-1 MMA, 2-3-1 UFC) in Sunday’s UFC Fight Night 61 headliner.
Officers rescanned Mir’s backpack and tried to figure out what was wrong. Mir emptied its contents. At first, he didn’t find anything. But then, he pulled out one of two 9-mm bullets.
“I flew from (Las) Vegas to (Los Angeles); no one noticed it,†he said. “I flew from LA to Sao Paulo; no one noticed it.â€
Mir doesn’t speak much Portuguese, and the officers didn’t speak much English, so it wasn’t exactly easy for him to explain the situation, which Globo first reported.
Luckily it's all been worked out and the fight will go on this weekend.
Former UFC heavyweight champ Frank Mir had almost passed airport security in Brazil when he was waved back. Something was inside his luggage.
“I have a bunch of different gym bags, too many bags that I use, and my backpack, I guess, I hadn’t used it since I went shooting last,†Mir (16-9 MMA, 14-9 UFC) today told MMAjunkie Radio from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he meets Antonio “Bigfoot†Silva (18-6-1 MMA, 2-3-1 UFC) in Sunday’s UFC Fight Night 61 headliner.
Officers rescanned Mir’s backpack and tried to figure out what was wrong. Mir emptied its contents. At first, he didn’t find anything. But then, he pulled out one of two 9-mm bullets.
“I flew from (Las) Vegas to (Los Angeles); no one noticed it,†he said. “I flew from LA to Sao Paulo; no one noticed it.â€
Mir doesn’t speak much Portuguese, and the officers didn’t speak much English, so it wasn’t exactly easy for him to explain the situation, which Globo first reported.
Luckily it's all been worked out and the fight will go on this weekend.