{"id":880885,"date":"2026-09-02T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880885\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:54:10","slug":"bella-mir-reveals-father-frank-has-brain-damage-from-ufc-hopes-to-avoid-similar-fate-his-brain-is-not-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880885\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Mir reveals father Frank has \u2018brain damage\u2019 from UFC, hopes to avoid similar fate \u2014 \u2018His brain is not good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know that until I watched someone on a video post on Instagram and they were talking about [our similarities] and I was like, that is so weird,\u201d Mir told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kYwZpGzu1vE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>. \u201cI hope that we don\u2019t have the exact career all the way through because I want to fight for a long time and not have so much brain damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s been in so many wars before, his brain is not good today,\u201d Mir said. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s really been catching up to him and I\u2019d like to try to get fast finishes and not have wars like that, like I just did in that last fight. Obviously, if I have to I will. I don\u2019t know if I want to have 32 fights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bella also revealed her father is often \u201cneeding a cane\u201d from all the physical abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If the 23-year-old \u201cLady\u201d wants to avoid brain damage, she might want to considering a different career. No shade to the 4-1 Mir, but the entire point of MMA is to hurt someone until they are no longer able to continue, or at least keep the punishment going until judges decide who did the most damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI didn\u2019t know that until I watched someone on a video post on Instagram and they were talking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,58016,702],"class_list":["post-880885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-contender-series","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}