I’ve been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances. I used to make $300 a week, struggling to put food on the table but I have become one of the highest-paid fighters in the world. I feel that’s destiny. This is what I’m supposed to be doing and if I die fighting, that’s fine. I just hope that if it does happen, it will be in an honest and fair competition.
My body is fucked but my mind is still here. I’ve still got my senses about me and I know what’s right and wrong, which is the main thing.
Sometimes I don’t sleep well. You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words. My memory is not that good anymore. I’ll forget something I did yesterday but I can remember the shit I did years and years ago. That’s just the price I’ve paid – the price of being a fighter. But I’ve fought a lot of drug cheats and copped a lot of punishment from guys who were cheating and that’s not right.
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Doping has been a part of the sport for a long time because there is a lot of money at the top. I think all fighters need to band together, the ones who aren’t cheating, and say this isn’t right. People say it doesn’t help with fighting. It does. The cheats get all the advantages; they’re stronger and they recover better.
I feel proud that I got here without cheating. Proud that I got here without taking any shortcuts and by doing it the proper way. My way.
I don’t have to worry about anything, I don’t have to worry about looking behind me like a drug dealer or a gangster. I’m a straight person and I can look straight ahead. But those guys have to look behind them because someone will come knocking at the door and say, “you cheated! Didn’t you?”
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I’m beating guys because that’s what I was born to do. Twenty seven years of fighting, 16 years at the top of two different sports – the oldest fighter on the planet and still going. Tell me I’m not good. I’m not arrogant. That’s just how I see it.”
Mark Hunt Goes on a Rant Against "Cheating Rat" Jon Jones
#MarkHunt is not buying into all the #GOAT talk surrounding #JonJones
Mark Hunt has been a synonym for force in the UFC’s heavyweight division in the past decade. He is a veteran fighter who has seen it all in his career. Many are impressed with Jon Jones and his statement-making victory at UFC 285 last weekend, March 4th. However, Mark Hunt has a different view on the whole situation. In a brutal social media rant, he viciously called out the two-division champion…
People definitely attribute Mark Hunt qualities to Tai Tuivasa that he does not have. Hunt was a crafty crafty heavyweight with a lot of athletic advantages Tai does not have.