Frank Mir and Brock Lesnar were on a conference call earlier today talking about their upcoming showdown for the UFC heavyweight championship belt at UFC 100 on July 11 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

Here is what Mir had to say about his improving boxing skills:

“The boxing thing,” Mir said, “I’ve really fallen in love with it because I’ve realized that out of all the different arts, technique is probably the most important in boxing. … It’s funny cause once you hit a certain level with technique and training, you have not these little tiny developments but these huge bursts, like, ‘Wow, I just learned how to do 15 different things better right now.’

"Every time I go, like last night I remember I was throwing, for example, a certain punch and all of a sudden it just clicked on how I was rotating my hips and throwing the punch and relaxing. After I made contact, I noticed I was stiffening up after shots. It’s something I’ve always done … but it never clicked. All of a sudden, last night after I threw a punch, I was extremely relaxed, not just before the strike … but after the strike.

“That’s the thing about boxing; there are just so many details. How you put your toe on the ground affects the punch. You can’t ever, ever actually master it. It seems like the more you do it, the better you get at it and you have these breakthroughs.”

Here is a video of one of Mir's recent training session:

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