Originally Posted by
Mik
What the fuck are you guys on about? Regardless of whether Hunt had his inkling about whether Lesnar was on steroids and irrelevant of whether he has fought people on peds in the past he is absolutely in the right here. There is firm reason to believe that the UFC not just knowingly allowed Lesnar to fight while on peds, but actually bent their own testing rules in order to facilitate him fighting whilst cheating. Regardless of Hunt's motivations, he is absolutely not the one in the wrong here and his main argument (other than wanting some of lesnar'a purse), is fundamentally right, if you sacrifice some of your purse to someone because you've failed to make weight then you fucking definitely should if you piss hot, it's just inarguable and indefensible. I don't see how Hunt is whining by fighting for that. Then he's being blackballed by the UFC, offered another notorious ped abuser because it makes Hunt's court case weaker. He might be using superlatives to describe it, but a fighter's career is short and expensive, there is no real health care once you're cut (which will probably happen if he loses or after the court case concludes), he's in an exclusive contract where he can't make any money fighting elsewhere and he does need to earn as much money as he can while he is still able to fight, which at his age might not be for very long.
The very fact that generally people have turned against Hunt is entirely symptomatic of why the UFC fighters will never get a fair deal with how shit their fans are. He's the definition of a fan friendly fighter. Sloberknocker fighter, highlight reel knock outs, almight chin, blue collar guy, could've taken his money and ran but wanted to keep fighting (which is a narrative that will no doubt get altered now), takes on all comers, always puts on a show...yet as soon as he quite rightly criticised the UFC for enabling fucking cheating, or at the very least turning a blind eye to it, in a fist fight, where someone can by definition get hurt, he's a cry baby and a whiner.
If Hunt doesn't entirely have your sympathy in this matter you need to question whether you're an mma fan or a UFC fan, and whether you're actually a fan of the fighters, because it's their rights that are being exploited and that's the wider issue of what Hunt is fighting against. If fighters had to sign a contract to say that they would retrospectively sacrifice their wage if they popped hot, that would be a bigger discouragement of using peds than almost any they have implemented so far. Yet so many people are on the side of the cheating lying millionaire who despite cheating and lying about it got to take the lions share of his money home.
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