Mark hunt ufc biography
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Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky
A powerful story of sadness and violence but also of hope, pride, honour and triumph from the real-life Rocky!
There's more than a few instances in this biography of UFC cult favourite Mark Hunt that make you shake your head in can't-make-this-stuff-up disbelief - Inside Sport
A powerful story of sadness, hope, pride, honour and triumph from the real-life Rocky!
Raw, confronting and honest, UFC champion Mark Hunt's inspiring autobiography shows it is possible to defy the odds and carve a better life. Born into a Mormon Samoan family, Hunt details his harrowing early life, his troubled teen years, and his angry youth with no apparent future.
After being plucked from an Auckland street fight and dropped into his first kickboxing bout, Mark went on to achieve unprecedented success in Australian and New Zealand combat sports. In an ongoing career that has spanned the globe
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‘There's more than a few instances in this biography of UFC cult favourite Mark Hunt that make you shake your head in can't-make-this-stuff-up disbelief’ - Inside Sport
A powerful story of sadness, hope, pride, honour and triumph from the real-life Rocky!
Raw, confronting and honest, UFC mästare Mark Hunt's inspiring autobiography shows it is possible to defy the odds and carve a better life. Born into a Mormon Samoan family, Hunt details his harrowing early life, his troubled teen years, and his angry youth with no apparent future.
After being plucked from an Auckland street fight and dropped into his first kickboxing bout, Mark went on to achieve unprecedented success in Australian and New Zealand combat sports. In an ongoing career that has spanned the globe, Mark Hunt has been in some of the UFC, Pride and K-1's most memorable battles. But in some ways those fights pale in comparison to that which he has overcome out of the rin
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UFC star Mark Hunt reveals his harrowing childhood in new autobiography
KICKBOXING legend and current UFC heavyweight contender Mark Hunt is one of Australia’s greatest ever fighters. In the following edited extract from his soon-to-be released autobiography Born to kamp, Hunt discusses how a harrowing upbringing as the youngest of four children in a Mormon Samoan household in New Zealand shaped him for a life of resilience.
I USED to spend a lot of time trying to figure out why the beatings happened: why they happened in general, or what the cause of any specific beating might have been. It’s only now that I know they didn’t really have much to do with us, they were about something else. That something else I hope never to know about.
Dad would beat us for any little thing, and with any implement. Fists, feet, broom handles, sticks, electrical wires, the hose that went from the washing machine to the tap. That last one really sucked, because it was he