Alistair Overeem did to Mark Hunt what few men have ever done at UFC 209 on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Overeem and Hunt, both former K-1 World Grand Prix champions in kickboxing, were meeting for the second time at T-Mobile Arena. They never fought in kickboxing, but Overeem submitted Hunt with an Americana under the Dream banner in 2008 in Japan.
That said, Hunt was not a fan of Overeem’s coming into the fight. Hunt has been on public campaign against performance-enhancing drug users in the UFC, including filing a lawsuit to change the way such fighters are sanctioned. Overeem is a fighter that has faced sanctioning in the past for a positive drug test. Hunt felt forced into this fight, and wanted nothing more than to score a victory, but it wasn’t to be.
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