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Kiwi UFC Star Mark Hunt Is Back, and He’s Bitter

"For the first time ever I've wanted to really hurt someone in the Octagon."

You have to feel sorry for Alistair Overeem in Las Vegas this weekend. Who else, in their right mind, would want to be having a scrap with a very pissed off, revenge-eager Mark Hunt.

"For the first time ever I've wanted to really hurt someone in the Octagon," Hunt, 42, told  Stuff.co.nz earlier this week.

"I can't do anything about the legal side of it, it's in the legal process at the moment, but all I know is I'm going to be putting my best foot forward to getting this cheater out of here."

Sunday's (NZT) fight will be the first time the legendary Kiwi UFC heavyweight has been in the Octagon since last July. So much as happened to, and around, Hunt since to turned him into the most dangerous, angrily coiled rattlesnake in recent UFC memory.

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