{"id":266296,"date":"2017-12-21T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=266296"},"modified":"2017-12-21T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:56:57","slug":"mark-hunt-finally-saying-thats-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mark-hunt\/mark-hunt-finally-saying-thats-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Hunt is Finally Saying &#8216;That&#8217;s It&#8217; to the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qCSMeISplUE\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Super Samoan has been in the UFC for eight years. That&#8217;s nearly a whole career right there, but we&#8217;re talking about a combat sports life that dates all the way back to 1998. You name a place and Mark Hunt has probably punched someone there. Chances are, it was also a walk-off knockout. After all this time and his love\/hate relationship with the organization, Hunt is finally going to part ways with the UFC after he fights out his contract.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We\u2019ll get that number nine [Curtis Blaydes] and put him away, so hopefully the UFC can give me someone higher instead of giving me someone beneath me. So, it is what it is. I just gotta keep ticking the boxes and just moving ahead with the career. Three fights left, this will be one of them, I got two left and then see you later. For the UFC, yeah. That will be the end of my career in the UFC [after I fight out of my contract]. I have two fights left and that\u2019s it. You probably know the path I\u2019ve had with the UFC, but you know, it\u2019s business.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HUNT vs BLAYDES<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC221?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC221<\/a> | Feb 11 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PerthArena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PerthArena<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Grlo6p31QB\">https:\/\/t.co\/Grlo6p31QB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q2BT502adL\">pic.twitter.com\/q2BT502adL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC Aus\/New Zealand (@UFC_AUSNZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFC_AUSNZ\/status\/941064039085559808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I haven\u2019t done nothing wrong, I just don\u2019t like to be treated like sh-t \u2013 even if I\u2019m an employee or whatever and I speak my mind about it and, you know, I\u2019ll go from there. So like I said, three fights left and I\u2019ll move on. Well, of course I\u2019m looking at going and fighting global fights for New Zealand, Australia and probably Japan. It depends on what happens. Like I said, I\u2019m still chasing the dream of that world title. I\u2019m in a good position to get a finish in this fight, beat this guy, then move on to the top end. It\u2019s not gonna be easy, but I\u2019ll see what happens and hopefully I get next in line for the world title shot, go from there. So, see what happens.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.submissionradio.com\/\">Mark Hunt speaking to Submission Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get it twisted, Mark Hunt isn&#8217;t retiring. He still wants to fight in New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Does this mean that we&#8217;ll see Hunt in a RIZIN ring in a couple of years? After his historic fights in PRIDE and K-1, the Samoan would certainly receive a warm welcome. The last time he was in Japan was 2014 when he finished Roy Nelson, earning Performance of the Night and Knockout of the Year from the World MMA Awards.<\/p>\n<p><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 12\/21\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Samoan has been in the UFC for eight years. That&#8217;s nearly a whole career right there, but we&#8217;re talking about a combat sports life that dates all the way back to 1998. You name a place and Mark Hunt has probably punched someone there. Chances are, it was also a walk-off knockout. 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