It’s not fair, says seething Hunt
New Zealand UFC star Mark Hunt has again blasted his bosses saying he’ll ‘‘work somewhere else’’ following reports drug cheat Brock Lesnar won’t be fined by the organisation.
The UFC has handed the responsibility for any fine on Lesnar over to the Nevada Athletic Commission following Lesnar’s double doping offence for this win against Hunt in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Hunt had demanded half and then all of Lesnar’s US$2.5m purse once Lesnar’s drug violations were confirmed from testing in the leadup and on fight night. Lesnar was reported to have used hydroxy-clomiphene, which stymies the production of oestrogen to stimulate natural testosterone production.
Yesterday (NZ time), Hunt went on the offensive again in an explosive interview with the MMA Hour.
He blasted Lesnar and the UFC who he said hadn’t contacted him as the drugs controversy unravelled.
‘‘Before the fight I was assuming he was cheating,’’ Hunt told the MMA Hour. ‘‘Look at him. There’s no way that guy makes 265 pounds.’’
Hunt vented with some expletives before adding, ‘‘and the thing about that is, he’s sitting here saying ‘this is a fair place.’ Well, it’s not fair. These guys are cheating and they should be in court for it. [They should] lose all of their money if they’re cheating, because if I die in there, who’s going to look after my family?
‘‘He didn’t do it by doing it clean. He did it by cheating, just like the rest of these cheaters,’’ Hunt continued.
‘‘The best outcome is if the com- pany that I work for says, ‘you’ve been cheating, you lose all of your [fight earnings], and since it was cheating, you get fined. You get sued and you get a fine. You’re going to straight to court, criminal court, because what you’ve done is an offence.’ That’s what I want done.
‘‘So that these guys who are cheating don’t have more incentive to do it, because they do it for financial gain. If you take all of that away, they get nothing.
‘‘Make them banned for five or 10 years. There goes your career. Five, 10 years, you have no career left and you lose all your money. You’re done as a fighter. That’ll stop you from doing it.
‘‘I won’t be a part of any company who says ‘we don’t mind you cheating or doing this or that,’ otherwise then every monkey will be [cheating].’’
Hunt has said he is willing to walk away from his lucrative UFC contract and he reiterated that again in an expletive-filled tirade with the MMA Hour.
‘‘I’ll go and work somewhere else,’’ Hunt said.