#1 Mark Hunt rattles the Richter with his KO of Roy Nelson
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I think it is safe to say that the UFC switches gears when it comes to their events in Japan.
The Land Of The Rising Sun loves fighting and the UFC sweetened the cards with warriors who made their bones in the business in Japan – Wanderlei Silva, Rampage Jackson, Takanori Gomi, Hatsu Hioki and of course, Mark Hunt.
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It doesn’t take an intellectual giant to predict the outcome of a fight between two men who are renowned for two things – their immovable chins and their kill-you-dead power. Hunt was definitely in the lead after the first round ended, being the more active fighter.
Halfway into the second round, the former K-1 Champion had decoded the distance equation and swooped forward, throwing a decoy left hand before letting his right uppercut erupt into Nelson’s face. Conor McGregor couldn’t have put it better – “Roy Nelson headbutted the floor!”.
Hunt collected a cheque for Performance of the Night and vaulted forward in the queue for the Heavyweight title, in the quest of which he found himself a place on this list.
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