Mark Hunt has a heart of a fighter. He refused to be deterred from his goal and never backs down.

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 Dana White 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.

Hut said "These kinds of opportunities don't come around too often. Any fighter would jump at this opportunity, not just me. If you say no to this, then you're not really a fighter after all."

White talk about Hunt saying "People talk about his [lack of] conditioning, but this guy just came off training for a five-round fight. He fought that fight [against Nelson] Sept. [20]. We called him back in the middle of October. He accepted the fight and was in Mexico, I believe, two days later. It's not a bad thing; it's a good thing. He trained for a five-round camp. He fought that fight, got out of it with no injuries, came out of it pretty quick, took three weeks off and jumped back into it. He's been in Mexico acclimating to the altitude for three weeks."

"I think people are looking at this all wrong. ... I 100 percent think they're sand-bagging and at his age, this is working out perfectly for him."