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Mark Hunt om sin karriär: ”Jag har hjärnskador tack vare alla fuskare”

Mark Hunt har sannerligen fått utstå en hel del slag mot sitt huvud i sin karriär. Ett pris han dels har fått betala för sin stil inne i buren. Hunt menar att hans minne börjar svikta och att han har börjat stamma. Mycket på grund av att han tävlat mot fuskare i sin karriär. I en intervju med ”Players Voice” genom MMAFighting och MMAMania sade den tuffa tungviktaren följande.

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.

Hunt, 43 år, har tävlat i MMA sedan 2004 och har samtidigt haft en kickboxningskarriär vid sidan om. Hunt sade även att han tror han kommer få sätta livet till inne i buren, men hoppas i alla fall att det sker mot någon som inte är dopad.

I will probably end my life fighting.

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

Hunt sade även att han skulle varit tungviktsmästare vid det här laget om det inte varit för alla dopade MMA-utövare han tävlat mot.

I’d be champ already if it wasn’t for the cheaters. I’d probably be retired, sitting at home playing video games all day, eating KFC. These guys couldn’t cut it with me if they weren’t cheating. I’ve missed out on sponsors and millions of dollars. It pisses me off when I think about it. If you take away all my fights against juicers, it would probably be half of my fight record gone. I paid my way to the top with blood and sweat, these guys had to enhance themselves to get here.

Everyone says the first Bigfoot fight is one of the greatest heavyweight bouts of all time, but not for me. It’s stained. That guy ruined everything. You take away his juice and he’s nothing. The first fight we had, we nearly killed each other. The second fight, when he was clean, he didn’t even last a round. He wasn’t the same person as the one that almost frigging killed me.

Hunt siktar fortfarande mot toppen och hoppas han kan ta hem det ärofyllda tungviktksbältet i UFC en dag.

Whenever I start something, I try to finish it. I’ve got three fights left. I want to win that world title. It’s a dream of mine to be a mixed martial arts world champion. I’ve been the best fighter in the world at kickboxing – they can’t take that away from me – but when I started in MMA I realized how great this sport is. It’s the ultimate combat sport and that’s why I want to be the world’s best at it.

I’ve come close. I had my title shot in Mexico – I didn’t cut it but the circumstances weren’t right. I’m number six in the world right now and I feel I can do it in three fights. I’m still one of the best fighters on the planet. I honestly don’t care what anyone says. I’m knocking fools out. 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

Hunt är planerad att tävla mot Marcin Tybura den 19:e november under UFC FIght Night 121.

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