Mark Hunt har fått nog. Efter dopingskandalen rörande Brock Lesnar som besegrade ”The Super Samoan” på UFC 200 frågar sig 42-åringen hur UFC kan utnyttja fighters som de gör och uppmanar kollegorna att ena sig i ett fackförbund, eventuellt startat av Hunt själv.
Svårt att förstå hur UFC gör som de gör
Det var i en intervju med MarkHunt.tv. som Mark Hunt (12-11-1) med den senaste dopingskandalen i samband med UFC 200 i ryggen klart och tydligt uppgav att han fått nog. Enligt Hunt finns så många oenigheten i UFC:s agerande över åren att det är skrattretande och han förstår sig inte på organisationens agerande i flertalet omtalade situationer.
”The way I see it, the Brock Lesnar doping thing is just another reason why we need a fighter’s association. These guys are just making up the rules as they go. First the Reebok thing, then Brock’s 4 month testing exemption. Conor gets pulled off a card for not going to a press conference that me or Brock didn’t go to anyway. Work that out. There’s probably a heap of others.” Once they decided they were gonna cut Conor out, they didn’t care, they just needed a name to make 200 big. Exemptions for Brock but not for Conor, I don’t know how you can just do that.”
Fighters måste ta saken i egna händer
”You just have to look at how Ariel gets his media pass taken away cause he broke a story about Brock, then he gets it back when other media stood up for him and called out the UFC. These guys are just making shit it up as they go. Yet fighters refuse to support other fighters when they fuck us over. These guys have lined their pockets with our blood if you ask me. I mean they deserve to get paid no doubt, they took the UFC from nothing into what it is today, but come on, most of the guys fighting, get paid nothing and have no benefits.”
Mark Hunt startar fackförbund
I slutändan är det alltså ett fackförbund som behövs enligt Hunt, som för övrigt är glad att han potentiellt kan bli katalysatorn för en sådan organisation. Hunt uppmanade vidare andra fighters att kontakta honom i frågan och erbjöd även anonymitet, ifall någon skulle vara rädd för några sorts repressalier från UFC.
”If you ask me there needs to be a system where they at least run things past the fighters before making these decisions and the fighters can look out for each other. We need an association where we can have our voices heard. We are massive reason why fans watch the sport and we risk our health to do it. I’m not sure what its like in the states, but in Australia workers stick together to make sure their voice is heard. Lots of guys have talked about this, but someone needs to make this happen and I’m happy for it to be me.”
