Newly signed Bellator MMA middleweight Melvin Manhoef has knocked out a few people in his time. There’s one, however, that sticks out in his memory. It happened six years ago in the now-defunct Japanese promotion DREAM, one year before he made his debut in the similarly shuttered Strikeforce, and it was one of those fights that almost didn’t happen. He had just been submitted by Gegard Mousasi in the semifinals of DREAM’s middleweight grand prix, and he wasn’t exactly getting ready for his next fight. “I was eating chocolate cake and (my manager) called me, ‘Hey, do you want to fight Mark Hunt ?’” he told MMAjunkie. Manhoef didn’t even need to put down his cake to do the math on fighting “The Super Samoan.” “I said, ‘Man, that guy is like 140 kilos (300-plus pounds) or something
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Melvin Manhoef talks Doug Marshall, getting tricked into fighting Mark Hunt – MMA Junkie