Mark Hunt’s Attorney Says He Turned Down Fight With Junior Dos Santos

Mark Hunt’s issues with the UFC following Brock Lesnar’s positive drug test have not been kept secret. He has retained the services of San Diego attorney Christina Denning, a partner of Higgs Fletcher & Mack, for a potential lawsuit against the UFC. He wants a clause placed in his contract where if an opponent is flagged, he gets their fight purse. He’s fought multiple fighters who eventually tested positive for banned substances, with Lesnar only being the latest.

In an interview with The Luke Thomas Show, Denning said that Mark Hunt actually turned down a fight with Junior Dos Santos for UFC 206 because the UFC didn’t agree to his requests.

She said: “I flew out to Vegas — I believe it was in late September — and met with three attorneys on behalf of the UFC to try to talk about a resolution, because [Hunt] wants to fight. Mark turned down the upcoming UFC 206 fight against Junior dos Santos because the UFC wouldn’t agree to the terms that we had proposed. The UFC folks, they haven’t shut any doors on us, they haven’t said, ‘We’ll never talk to you about a provision like this in the contract’. I’m waiting for my phone to ring, for the UFC to call us and come up with a resolution. Normally, I’d just file a lawsuit. Or I’d just wait for the Lesnar hearing to file a lawsuit. But we’re coming down and talking about it, because we want to resolve it and he wants to fight. He just wants fair fights.“