#10 Mark Hunt vs Roy Nelson
There exist only a handful of active fighters who hook crowds by the boatload only because of their ability to swallow punches like fire-eaters and put a full stop with one punch. Japanese fans are known to be violence junkies so imagine the fireworks display their neurons must’ve resembled when the bell rang for this fight.
Even the biggest fan of Roy Nelson will admit that he is not known to pre-empt or try to decipher his opponents’ offense. Mark Hunt always uses his jabs to gauge the distance between him and his opponent’s chin. Neither uses a high pace to hound foes, but an uneventful first round was all the Super Samoan needed to finish the equation.
He programmed the slouching Nelson to duck further down to slip his jab, which put Big Country in the middle of the crosshairs for his uppercut.
Hunt became only the second man in the list of powerhouses Nelson has faced to knock him out and given that the latter is 40 years old, he might be the last fighter to be able to make that claim as well.
