MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThey\u2019ve pushed me out of the way, to be honest and that\u2019s what\u2019s taken my love for fighting away. It\u2019s kind of sad because they should be promoting the guy that\u2019s not cheating whereas they are promoting the cheaters of this sport, which is wrong. I actually thought Jeff Novitzky was a nice person but he\u2019s just a sellout. You\u2019re a sellout, bro. That\u2019s the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\nMark Hunt points to the drama surrounding the UFC 232 as an example of why he feels this way. The card was supposed to occur in Las Vegas, but when turinabol was detected on several Jon Jones drug tests, and the NSAC wouldn’t give him a license, the entire card was moved to LA. Hunt believes Jones received preferential treatment, and is not impressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cPure example, look at the situation with Jon Jones and [Alexander] Gustafsson,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cLook at that situation. They move a whole freakin\u2019 show for one cheating guy. All the fans miss out on all their airlines, all their flights, all that jazz. They miss out all because of this one idiot…<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UFC has the best stringent testing in the whole freakin\u2019 world but look what they\u2019re doing. They give people four-month waivers so they can get past the tests, they\u2019ve got these guys that say \u2018The tests say has a picogram – a bit of steroids in him – but that\u2019s from the last time we caught him.\u2019 But he\u2019s still got some sh*t in him. So does that mean he\u2019s cheating? Yes, he is. Why are you even putting him to fight? The truth of the fact is, it didn\u2019t matter whether he had a picogram now or if he had it 20 years ago, he\u2019s still got some sh*t in him so he shouldn\u2019t be fighting. It\u2019s illegal. They\u2019re promoting steroids, that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
What do you think of these comments from Mark Hunt?<\/p>\n
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