Imagine jumping in your time machine and going back to 2010 just so you could tell UFC President Dana White that some day soon he’d have a true heavyweight classic on his hands, and he’d have Mark Hunt (9-8-1 MMA, 4-2-1 UFC) and Antonio Silva (18-5-1 MMA, 2-2-1 UFC) to thank for it. As in, the same Mark Hunt the UFC had once decided it would rather pay off than put to work, and the same “Bigfoot” Silva who was just then plugging along as a heavyweight also-ran in Strikeforce after briefly fleeing to Japan to avoid a steroid suspension in the U.S. Imagine telling White that Hunt, he of the six-fight losing streak, and Silva, known more for looking like an Easter Island statue come terrifyingly to life than for any of his athletic accomplishments, would be the two heavyweights he’d be practically ready to kiss after a five-round slugfest in Brisbane, Australia, near the close of 2013.
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