Best and Worst from UFC Fight Night 142: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa

#2 Worst: The Mark Hunt fight was terrible

Mark Hunt's loss to Justin Willis was a lacklustre fight

Okay, so firstly you’ve got to give some credit to Justin Willis for winning his fight with Mark Hunt, even if it was absolutely dull. Willis was relatively inexperienced at just 7-1 and yet he showed calmness, a good awareness of the range and easily outpointed Hunt to take home the biggest victory of his career.

With that said, I’m not sure at all what happened to Hunt. A good first round was followed by ten minutes of very little, and it felt strange – like he’d picked up an injury, perhaps, or simply checked out of the fight for some reason. It was easily the most disappointing fight of his 8-year UFC career, even if he’s suffered far more violent losses in the past.

The fight is likely to mark the end of Hunt’s UFC career, as he’s still embroiled in a lawsuit against the promotion and has now completed his contract, and it can’t have been the way ‘The Super Samoan’ wanted to go out. Even the post-fight interviews were strange as Willis handed the mic to Hunt, who went on to say very little.

Was it the worst fight of 2018? Probably not, but it was certainly strange and disappointing, and nobody will want to go back to rewatch it.