Mark Hunt's drama of career is making a steep turn as he is about to make a comeback after many years of hiatus in the UFC.

Hunt has won the K1 World Grand Prix kickboxing championship in 2001 but had lost five MMA fights consecutively thereafter. All of his losses came in the first round with Josh Barnett and Fedor Emelianenko ended it with a submission.

The UFC owned his contract following its purchase of PRIDE, but UFC President DanaWhite had no interest in Hunt.

But Hunt does not want to stay at home and receive an income that he has not hard earned. So what he did was he talked to White and ask for a fight. White gave Hunt a shot at UFC 119. But he was submitted by Sean McCorkle just 63 seconds into his UFC debut on Sept. 25, 2010.

Now after four long years, it was a surprise that White contacted Hunt because he needed him. Heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez got hurt in training, suffering a right knee injury. This means that Velasquez won't be able to face Fabricio Werdum three weeks from then.

So White offered the fight to Hunt and Hunt eagerly obliged.

Hunt said "I said yes before he even got the question out."

Hunt said that he currently weights 137 kilos, maybe even 138. And that losing weight is no big deals. Hunt weighs a little over 300 now with three-and-a-half weeks before the weigh-in when he has to make 265 pounds on the nose.

He adds "You don't say no to this kind of opportunity. "This is an amazing opportunity and even though I'm not in fight shape or anything, there was never a doubt I was going to take it."

Although many thinks that Werdum has a better rounded strategy, Hunt's attitude of taking what is given and proving them wrong is his best asset.

According to White "What he has done, and is doing now at 40 years old, is in my opinion, the greatest story in sports. His record was upside down. He wasn't looking that great. He was on a long losing streak. It didn't make sense for us to bring him in given his record and how things were going for him."

He adds "I told him, 'Look man, we'll pay you what we owe you for the rest of the contract and go ahead and do your thing.' But he got so mad when I said that. '[Expletive] you! [Expletive] you! I'm not doing that. I'm fighting.' And look at him. It turns out that in the long run, he was right and we were wrong. He's earned 10 times what he'd have made if we'd just paid him off and here he is fighting for the title."