{"id":240742,"date":"2017-06-06T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=240742"},"modified":"2017-06-06T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:48:21","slug":"mark-hunt-blasts-cheater-alistair-overeem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mark-hunt\/mark-hunt-blasts-cheater-alistair-overeem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Hunt blasts “cheater” Alistair Overeem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, on the main card of UFC 209, heavyweight veteran Mark Hunt stepped into the cage with Alistair Overeem. Unfortunately for Hunt and his fans, this fight did not go according to plan. Instead, Overeem put Hunt away with knees in the third round<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour<\/a>, Hunt expressed some lingering issues he has with this fight, citing the fact that Overeem was allowed to use an IV<\/a> to rehydrate \u2013 which is forbidden by both the Nevada Athletic Commission and USADA \u2013 in advance of the fight. The reason that Overeem was allowed to use an IV is because he fell ill with food poisoning just days before the fight. According to Hunt, however, this was all a fabrication to bend the rules.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI still don\u2019t understand why he was allowed an IV,” Hunt said. “If you\u2019re going to set a rule, set a rule for everyone, not change it for your own liking, your own benefit…. I think it\u2019s just a whole crock of shit. It\u2019s all made-up rubbish. It\u2019s rubbish, you know? Have rules for everyone, not changing them for anyone.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI would\u2019ve told him to toughen up,\u201d he continued. \u201cFuck. Toughen up, mate. He didn\u2019t look sick when he got to the fight. He looked like he was pretty hydrated there. I don\u2019t believe he was sick at all. He made shit up, and they said, \u2018Oh, here, have an IV. Give you a bit more help.\u2019 Load of shit. I think I might say that next time, \u2018I\u2019m sick, I\u2019m sick.\u2019 Rubbish. He got away with cheating and that\u2019s it. He got away with it, so good on him. He didn\u2019t get caught, they gave him help. Well fuck, you\u2019re still a cheater to me.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of these comments from “The Super Samoan” Mark Hunt?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/6\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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