{"id":196121,"date":"2016-06-07T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=196121"},"modified":"2016-06-07T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:19:54","slug":"mark-hunt-blasts-brock-lesnar-ahead-of-ufc-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mark-hunt\/mark-hunt-blasts-brock-lesnar-ahead-of-ufc-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Hunt blasts Brock Lesnar ahead of UFC 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend at UFC 199, the UFC revealed in a promo for UFC 200 that former heavyweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brock-lesnar\/brock-lesnar-meets-__________-at-ufc-200\/\">Brock Lesnar would be returning to the Octagon <\/a>for one fight at UFC 200.<\/p>\n<p>While the UFC didn&#8217;t immediately announce Lesnar&#8217;s opponent for the event, it was revealed yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mark-hunt\/opening-odds-for-ufc-200s-mark-hunt-vs-brock-lesnar-fight\/\">Lesnar will fight Mark Hunt<\/a> in the co-main event of UFC 200.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markhunt.tv\/exclusive-mark-hunt-breaks-silence-fight-brock-lesnar-ufc200\/\" target=\"_blank\">his website<\/a> to give his thoughts on the bout, and why he isn&#8217;t concerned with Lesnar&#8217;s college wrestling background.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I deal with a wrestler like I deal with every other fighter,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I punch them in the mouth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I already said they better be testing him, but in the end it doesn\u2019t even matter. It\u2019s time for \u2018punch face\u2019, a game I have been playing for many years. I\u2019ll knock his face off. I knock his mouth off and then his lips fly off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he has an itch to scratch I will scratch it for him,&#8221; Hunt said. &#8220;I ain\u2019t no part time fighter. He thinks this is a game where he can come back and forth.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hunt then took a shot at Lesnar&#8217;s WWE career:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I will send this pretender back so he can play house with the other part timers. This realm is for the real fighters, not these damn pretenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t confuse wrestling with real fighting. 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