Mark Hunt har den senaste tiden varit på krigsstigen mot UFC, då han anser att de hanterade Brock Lesnars dopningsskandal helt fel. Hunt vill bland annat starta ett förbund för fighters, något som UFCs före detta lättviktsmästare Benson Henderson ställer sig bakom.
Detta hade Benson att säga, via ”MMAFighting”:
I 100 percent support Mark Hunt, everything he’s doing and talking about. I think it’s a long time coming, it should have been here a long time ago.
There are a lot of other guys, Cung Le, Jon Fitch, there have been guys who have talked about it for a long time. I show my support and solidarity with those guys. As a mixed martial artist, I definitely support them.
Boxers are used to it. They know they are supposed to get this and supposed to get that, and what it’s supposed to be like and how it is supposed to be conducted. Us, as mixed martial artists, we’re finally getting like, ‘oh yeah, we should make this much money.’
NFL, they had a lockout so that they could get 51 percent of the total gross revenue. Us fighters, we get, like, seven percent, maybe seven percent of gross revenues. So, us as athletes, we’re not that smart and it took us awhile to get our act together.
Henderson mötte senast Andrey Koreshkov under Bellator 153, en match som Benson förlorade via ett enhälligt domslut, och härnäst ser vi honom ta sig an Patricio Freire under Bellator 160 den 26 augusti.
