I’m thinking this spat of injuries has saved some jobs. I hope they resign Justin Wren from TUF.

I thought Hunt had two guaranteed fights they have to fill from his Pride contract. Either way putting him on a card in Australia makes sense.

Other than that I agree, I think they only put him on this card because the event is in Australia. Like they brought in as many German fighters as they could for 122.

Yeah but aren’t there a lot of Croatian people in Australia? Hence Reljic, Cro Cop and Pokrajac all fighting at UFC 110. I know Hunt ain’t Australian, but surely he’ll still get more cheers than US or Brazilian fighters

The should have made Hunt-Yvel.

can dream.

His K-1 World Grand Prix Championship win over Francisco Filho was almost 10 years ago. His last appearance in the K-1 Grand Prix was a loss to Lebanner in 02. He fought for the Super heavyweight title for K-1 in 08 against Semmy Schilt, but got tko’d in the opening round. I mean his kickboxing record looks decent (30 wins *13ko’s-13 losses) and he has been in some wars, but that was kickboxing, and this is MMA. He’s 5-7 currently in this sport. He’s lost to Yoshida, TKO’d Dan Bobish, Split decision over Wanderlei after stepping in to replace Sakuraba which I will acknowledge as an achievement at the time (pride shockwave: 2004) And he did avenge a unanimous decision loss to Mirko Crocop back in K-1 with his split decision victory over him in 05 (pride shockwave 2005) but he has not been out of the first round since May 5th, 2005. Or to put it more bluntly he has been finished decisively in the very first round of his last 6 professional MMA bouts. Manhoef Ko’d him. Barnett, Fedor, Overeem, Mousasi all subbed him and then 16 months later he came into the UFC and got subbed by Mccorkle……in 1:03 of round 1. I’m sorry but I do not recognize anything legendary about Mark Hunt. His boxing record stands at 0-1-1 from april 2000. Aside from the Atomic Butt Drop and some close split decisions Mark Hunt has not done nearly enough to even be considered a legend. He’s some 36 year old former kickboxing champion whose run 1-1 in the past 7 years in his respective sport and is on a 0-6 run in this sport. You shouldn’t call people noobs for not wanting to see him fight on a ppv. Like I posted earlier, I just hope this fight isn’t televised, there’s more talented Aussie’s out there somewhere eating Kangaroo’s and riding Great White shark’s who would be a better representative for the local fans. Pretending Mark Hunt is something he is not is just presuming the Aussie fans are stupid and will only appreciate the fight if it’s a down under fighter. The UFC is supposed to be the best against the best am I right? That’s the whole company moto that BLAF hammers into our heads every presser. This is not a fight of the best against the best, it’s not even 2nd string material and I am honestly dissapointed in Joe Silva on this one. The only bright side is a roster slot is likely to open up for a more deserving heavyweight prospect regardless of who losses this fight.

This fight has no business being on a UFC card. Not with all Dana’s talk about the best in the world and such.