UFC 127: Mark Hunt Trains for Chris Tuchscherer

by Nick Thomas on Jan 12, 2011 9:02 AM EST in UFC Video

Feb 27th, live on Pay-per-view from Sydney, Australia:

Mark "Super Samoan" Hunt (5-7)
Loss Sean McCorkle - Submission (Straight Armbar) UFC 119
Loss Gegard Mousasi - Submission (Straight Armbar) Dream 9
Loss Melvin Manhoef - KO (Punches) K-1

Chris "The Crowbar" Tuchscherer (21-3)
Loss Brendan Schaub - TKO (Punches) UFC 116
Win Tim Hague - Decision (Majority) UFC 109
Loss Gabriel Gonzaga - TKO (Punches) UFC 102

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This is one of those fights that i wouldn’t be surprised if both fighters were cut after regardless of outcome

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by Austin Martin on Jan 12, 2011 9:04 AM EST via mobile reply actions

Damn I wish he was back at ATT for this fight. People like to crap on Hunt but I really really hope he can win this, if he stick Chris on his back he shouldn’t have any probs with sub attempts.

This fight also illustrates the UFC HW division isn’t really any deeper than the SF division.

Food goes in here

by Pandanus on Jan 12, 2011 9:07 AM EST reply actions

Hunt has fights left on his contact from Pride days

That’s how he got to the UFC with such record

"Common sense is not so common"

by SpL on Jan 12, 2011 10:56 AM EST up reply actions

That explains how he got his first fight,

not why he was kept around for another.

by Scott Haber on Jan 12, 2011 11:50 AM EST up reply actions

his Pride deal probably says he can't be cut or something like that...

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by TylerTreese on Jan 12, 2011 2:39 PM EST up reply actions

there may be a guarantee locked in for minimum of, say, 3 fights.
but we’d have to see the contract to really know, i’m just speculating.

either way, anyone surprised he never seems to show any ground game?

by Victor Rodriguez on Jan 12, 2011 5:17 PM EST up reply actions

No ground game?

He almost tapped Fedor with an americana…he’s clearly a submission master!

by Scott Haber on Jan 12, 2011 11:00 PM EST up reply actions

This is one of them fights I hope we get to see.

I hope it is a quick knockout so that we could see it. I was a big Mark Hunt fan when he was with pride. For the longest time I thought he was asian because the japanese fans loved him so much..lol

by #1 piggy on Jan 12, 2011 9:08 AM EST reply actions

Hunts last six fights (all loses) have lasted a total of 14 minutes and he hasn’t seen a second round in any of them. This dates all the way back to 2006.

by truck on Jan 12, 2011 9:22 AM EST up reply actions

He did retire TK.

Food goes in here

by Pandanus on Jan 12, 2011 9:23 AM EST up reply actions

Chris should also be 0-3 due to that bungle that was the Hague fight.

Food goes in here

by Pandanus on Jan 12, 2011 9:19 AM EST reply actions

The Gonzaga fight was also a bungle

The poor guy’s nuts were completely flattened.

by captainStevo on Jan 12, 2011 11:09 AM EST up reply actions

Honestly, this should be an easy fight for the YAMMA vet. Its absolutely ridiculous that this guy still has a contract – makes you then wonder what other contracts the UFC has sitting around that either the fighters or the promotion simply haven’t chosen to activate.

by VirtualBalboa on Jan 12, 2011 9:23 AM EST reply actions

I don’t why he didn’t just refocus back on K-1, even though he got beat my Semmy he could have milked in some easy paydays there.

Food goes in here

by Pandanus on Jan 12, 2011 9:32 AM EST reply actions

Easier to get subbed in 30 secs

than obliterated by Saki or some of these other hyper-violent beasts K-1 would’ve matched him with. If he was just looking for easy paydays he did it the right way.

OHHHHH! OH MY GOODNESS DID YOU SEE THAT?! He ran up the wall like a ninja and landed a high kick! Unbelievable! I've never seen anything like that, it's like something out of a movie!

by lowellthehammer on Jan 12, 2011 10:04 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah but at least he’d have a shot at beating the Raul Catinas and Takumi Sato’s of the world.

Food goes in here

by Pandanus on Jan 12, 2011 10:11 AM EST up reply actions

God I hope Hunt wins this. I don’t even like him but Tuchscherer is an amazing waste of space.

by Newman24 on Jan 12, 2011 10:11 AM EST reply actions

I agree with this. I am not a fan of Chris “The Crowbar” Tuchscherer, but I am a fan of Hunt. I imagine that “The Crowbar” will take this fight to the ground. It would be cool to see Hunt KO or TKO him though.

I won't jump off the bandwagon just because you lost.

by chrisbboy82 on Jan 12, 2011 12:25 PM EST up reply actions

LOL

Hunt was a great fighter but he has too many fights worth of damage. It is funny how DW knocks Lindland for fighting in SF but has Hunt fighting for the UFC. Hunt has lost his last 6 fights and he was finished in ALL of them! At least 4 of which are currently in the SF HW and LHW division. How is this “best in the world”? At least Lindland was 4-3 in his last 7 fights with some quality wins in there. Lindland 22-8 Hunt 5-7 (with a lot of k-1 fights)

Werdum beat Fedor, Dos Santos beat Werdum, Joaquim Ferreira beat Dos Santos. Therefore Ferreira is WAAAAY better than Fedor. Keep MMA math alive!

by crizzy on Jan 12, 2011 10:31 AM EST reply actions

he is owed fights as part of the PRIDE purchase

by Kevin Jennison J. Zametov-St Pierre on Jan 12, 2011 10:44 AM EST up reply actions

He was owed one fight.

Once you’re under a UFC contract, you can be canned after any single loss.

by Scott Haber on Jan 12, 2011 11:51 AM EST up reply actions

they took his Pride deal

they can’t enforce UFC deal policies when he signed it with Pride…

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by TylerTreese on Jan 12, 2011 2:41 PM EST up reply actions

I’m sure the UFC could have bought out the contract and set him free, but I guess given the choice, they’d rather put a lumpy, shot fighter on their cards. I guess they do get something out of it that way.

by VirtualBalboa on Jan 12, 2011 1:08 PM EST up reply actions