The following article was written by Kevin Iole and was originally published by official MMAWeekly.com content partner Yahoo! Sports . Mark Hunt is not a man easily deterred, or intimidated. Give him only 25 days to prepare to fight a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt with ever-improving striking, put the bout 8,000 feet above sea level, and tell Hunt he has to lose 35 or so pounds in less than a month to make weight, and he’ll lightly laugh it off. No big deal. Except, of course, that it is. In one of the strangest turns in one of the UFC’s strangest years, Hunt – a 40-year-old the UFC tried hard to cut a couple of years back, a guy with a record barely above .500, a guy who hasn’t won back-to-back fights in 19 months, a guy who competes as if he believes the ground game is helping his knocked-down opponent off the canvas – is fighting for a version of the UFC’s heavyweight title.
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How Mark Hunt Defied the UFC Odds (Yahoo! Sports Special) – MMA Weekly