Mark Hunt’s Attorney Claims Brock Lesnar and UFC Conspired to Break Anti-Doping Rules

Mark Hunt’s attorney Christina Denning spoke with MMAjunkie about their lawsuit filed against Brock Lesnar, Dana White and the UFC over Lesnar’s anti-doping violations leading into UFC 200. Some highlights are below:

On Lesnar’s lack of signficant financial punishment: “There’s nothing deterring Brock Lesnar from doping, getting $5 million-plus from pay-per-view and the purse, and just turning around to pay a nominal fraction of that when they have no desire to come back to the UFC, anyway. The avenue to punish Brock is there. It’s just not being executed by the UFC, which is a problem, because this is what happens in every situation…Sure, $250k is a big chunk of change, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s nothing. It was a good investment.”

On Hunt’s goals with thew lawsuit: “We’re not making any allegations as to (which defendant is more responsible than the other). We just want a bunch of money based on what the statutes allow us. There’s punitive damages at issue here sufficient to punish the UFC, and the UFC has a lot of money. If you’re suing somebody for fraud and punitive damages, and they only make $100,000 a year, the jury is not going to award that much in damages. But when you’re the UFC and the jury sits and hears about how awful and how egregious the pattern of conduct was leading up to UFC 200 and going back to prior fights, knowing how much the UFC’s worth, they can award an amount sufficient to deter future conduct.”

On not intending to blame one party more than the others: “If they all wanted to be represented by the same person and offer us a package and we never knew who was paying what, we probably wouldn’t care, as long as it was an amount that was fair.”

On Lesnar’s culpability: “He was in on this. He’s coming from the WWE – he’s on steroids – and he can’t sign up officially with the UFC in March, because he’s going to be dumped into this program for doping and he’s going to fail…He talks about how big he is and how much money he’s going to make on this. He is purposely conspiring to circumvent doping regulations.”