Mark Hunt is known by combat sports fans as one of if not the hardest puncher to ever fight in kickboxing or MMA. He’s put out the lights of former UFC heavyweight title challenger “Bigfoot Silva” and kickboxing legend Jerome Le Banner, and has walked off more times than a baseball player. He even ended Roy Nelson’s heavyweight “strikes absorbed” record when he finally cracked the granite chin of “Big Country” in 2014.
The man hits very hard. No one – NO ONE – wants to get hit by Mark Hunt. Except a young man known as “Noodles,” AKA Emiliano Rivera.
Noodles joined kickboxing elder statesman John Wayne Parr’s gym in order to lose weight, take part in the sport he loved, and get a girlfriend. According to Parr, he is down 35kg and looking good… but has no girlfriend.
Still, look at the difference all that gym time made:
It’s a feel good story – right up until the punching started, that is.
Noodles was at Parr’s gym working out when Hunt shuffled in for some training, then ended up taking one hell of a punch from the world’s most dangerous Kiwi. Look at his determination, his face. The man Japanese fans dubbed Marko Hunto was not holding back, and it led to a near Homer Simpson level of jiggle. Surprisingly, Noodle took the punch and wasn’t too affected by the strike.
The best part of the whole heartwarming tale? Noodles took his first fight after Hunt punched him, and knocked out his opponent in 6 seconds. I’m not going to say it, but I’m going to say it: Mark Hunt punched Noodles so hard it gave him the power to knock out another man in 6 seconds.
I’m not trying to take anything away from Noodles, but we know that Mark Hunt hits so hard he knocked out this other guy, too. That’s science, people.
(Via FightState)