The #Rally4MarkHunt movement has reached epic proportions. Fans around the world continue to bombard Dana White, Lorenzo Fertitta and others associated with the UFC in the hopes of getting the man with the 8-7 record a world heavyweight title shot.
As I said last Thursday, Hunt isn’t a legitimate title contender. Not yet, anyway. That’s not to say that he won’t eventually get there, because I think he only really needs one more emphatic win to earn proper consideration.
All of the clamor from fans has earned Hunt plenty of attention from media in recent days. He appeared on the MMA Hour yesterday to discuss a recent hot-button issue: the drug test failure of fellow heavyweight Alistair Overeem.
Hunt held nothing back when discussing Overeem:
Drugs in all sports is a big problem. It’s a cutthroat business, people take this shit just to get by. I don’t use that shit, but when Alistair takes that shit or whoever takes it they just screw themselves out. Like when Barnett screwed himself out of the fight with Fedor.
But who am I to judge anybody? I don’t take that shit and no one else should. If they do, that’s on them. Alistair is now in court, and everything that Alistair has done is meaningless now. At the end of the day he just got caught cheating, so what’s the deal? I lost to him, so did he use that shit when I was fighting him? That’s on him. He has to live with that shit. It’s not my position to judge him. He has to look himself in the mirror.
Fighters tend to adopt a neutral stance when discussing sensitive subjects involving other fighters, at least in public. If you get them away from the cameras and the audio recorders, they’ll often tell you exactly how they feel about the fighter who tested positive for steroids.
Or the fighter who currently has three girlfriends that live within two miles of the house he shares with his stay-at-home wife. Or the fighter who has the biggest fight of his career coming up, yet spends more time at the beach with questionable company than he does at the gym.
It’s good to hear Hunt truly speaking his mind. He has nothing to lose. He was never expected to get into the UFC in the first place, and he only earned a fight there because of a contract technicality.
He’s in the midst of one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of the sport, but doesn’t care if he wins or loses or offends anyone else with the things he says.
He wasn’t supposed to be here, after all. And if you’re offended by something he says, well, that’s your problem.
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