For about five minutes there in the spring of 2012, it seemed like Mark Hunt had the whole world behind him. Hunt (10-8-1 MMA, 5-2-1 UFC) was on a three-fight winning streak, one which had finally brought his record as an MMA fighter to a semi-respectable 8-7, and he had finally proved to the UFC that he was more than just a fat kickboxer with the ground game of a disinterested white belt. He was getting somewhere, this guy who the UFC had very recently offered to pay off just to keep him home on the couch and out of the octagon. He was proving himself. Then came that whole ugly mess with Alistair Overeem popping positive for elevated testosterone levels, leaving then-UFC heavyweight champ Junior Dos Santos without a dance partner at UFC 146.
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Mark Hunt’s long, strange journey to becoming an irony-free contender – MMA Junkie