UFC 200 is the upcoming super card containing many of the sport’s biggest and best stars.
Featuring on the card will be a slew of fan favourite fighters, pivotal match ups and three title fights.
The main event will see a grudge match light heavyweight title unification between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones.
But the most talked about fight on that card is the surprise return of WWE star turned UFC heavyweight champion turned WWE star and once again UFC fighter Brock Lesnar.
Lesnar casts a frightening shadow, standing 6 foot 3 inches and having to cut weight to make the UFC heavyweight limit of 265 pounds.
A former division one national champion wrestler who’s meteoric rise from WWE wrestler to UFC heavyweight champion after only four fights captivated fight audiences and brought in crossover fans from around the world.
Lesnar became a huge star for the world’s leading mma promotion breaking pay per view records and earning huge pay days along the way.
Lesnar’s opponent for the UFC 200 co-main event slot is Australia’s Mark ‘Super Samoan’ Hunt.
Hunt is the hard-hitting Sydney-based heavyweight known for vicious one punch walk off knockouts.
Hunt is coming off two impressive first round knockout victories over Antonio Silva and long time Lesnar rival Frank Mir, and has stated he is coming for the belt.
But what does a win over Lesnar do for the former K1 champion?
Apart from a nice payday and raising his profile as the guy who beat up Brock Lesnar, it doesn’t do much at all.
Lesnar hasn’t fought in MMA for four and a half years and prior to that lost his last two fights very convincingly via first round TKOs to Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem.
Lesnar is 38 years old, unranked in the UFC media generated rankings, where Hunt is ranked eighth. By all accounts Lesnar will return to the WWE after the fight.
With the fight coming on relatively short notice its unknown what kind of fighting shape the WWE star is in and if he has improved his overall MMA game during his four and a half year MMA hiatus.
This will also mark the first time Lesnar has competed in the UFC under the strict new anti-doping rules enforced by United States Anti-Doping Agency. Hunt stated recently he believes that Lesnar is “juiced to the gills“.
Adversely if Hunt should lose to Lesnar it would more than likely de-rail any plans for a UFC title shot. The loss would sit Hunt at three losses in his last five fights and push him to the back of the line in the increasingly interesting heavyweight division.
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