I noticed this little pic on the Sherdog page...it looks like they just erased his sides.
Yeah, he looked like that for awhile. Go look at his profile at UFC.com. Should have that picture in there somewhere, untouched. Lookes like they may have cropped that picture a little too much, but its not far off.
I was tempted to call you a TUF newbie. :-) Go back and watch UFC 38 where he fought Ian Freeman. Mir weighed in at 235 and was in the best shape he'd ever fight at. I'm afraid that first loss must have sent him the wrong message about conditioning.
Listen it didn't send him the wrong message about conditioning, if you know anything about Mir, you will know his head was still in the U.S. when the fight started, and he likes cardio like the U.S. like Iraq!