Mark Hunt v UFC : Taking Down 1 Opponent at a Time, Part II

On the docket in this episode, you will hear from the legendary Mark Hunt, heavyweight MMA fighter, aka “The Super Samoan”.  He joins the podcast in a 2-part interview.   Tina Denning, Managing Director of the premier firm Denning Moores, currently represents Mark in his lawsuit against the UFC, Dana White, and Brock Lesnar stemming from the UFC 200 in July 2016 wherein Lesnar fought Mark while on a banned performance enhancing drug.  The fight was supposed to be Lesnar's big return to the MMA.  In a fight with a lot of mystery shrouding the pre-fight drug testing of Lesnar, Lesnar was allowed to take home the bulk of the $2.5M purse. UFC’s drug testing policy at the time required fighters to spend four months in a drug testing pool before competing.  However, despite this policy, Lesnar was given a special exemption by UFC to this drug testing policy which allowed him to be ruled eligible to fight Mark. A few weeks after the fight, the world learned that Lesnar had tested positive for a banned substance not only in the in-competition test on fight night but also in a test 11 days prior to the fight.  In part II of the interview with Mark, you will learn more about the facts leading up the lawsuit and the status of it today. 

In part I, you get to know the real Mark Hunt and his story of how he went from a street fight outside a bar in Auckland, New Zealand to battling his way to the top of his profession with some of the UFC, Pride, and K-1’s most memorable fights.  His story is one that begins with a terrifying early life with his siblings starving and being physically and sexually abused to one of hope and success.  Sometimes all you need is a little luck and good timing, which is how Mark’s career began in Auckland.  Mark, like most in his profession, has been taken advantage of by agents and managers that prey upon new and aspiring fighters and by the organizations that feature them, which is why he hopes that young fighters today learn from his past trials and tribulations within the sport.  He also hopes to shed more light on the prevalent doping problem within the profession and reduce its occurrences so that fights are fair and clean.  This is a no-holds-bar, not to be missed interview!