Mark Hulme in South Africa returns to action this Saturday on Octagon 74, where he is confronted with Dominik Humburger as part of the Tipsport Gamechanger Centralweight Tournament.
Prior to debuting with Octagon last February, Hulme (13-3) had appeared as part of The ultimate hunter 32, Losing Paddy McCorry in an exhibition play. The experience, explained in a recent interview with Cageside Press, was more important than the result.
“You take a dog, a fighting dog, you put it in a cage, you beat the sh*t, perhaps break his leg or something and then you put it on to fight, of course that dog does not go the way it should or can,” Hulme said. ‘The ultimate hunter For me was personal, I lost a fight and great respect for Paddy, but I think that was something I needed. Something that, it’s not something I wanted, it’s something I needed. “
“I went in with this mentality of, give me what I need, not necessary what I want. And of course I wanted to win that, but looking back I can see where I am today, this is exactly where I wanted to be. And paying the price of not taking my best in that fight, that’s good with me.
Hulme refers to himself as a dog beaten in a pulp and noted that his tuff had been his first in more than a year. Injuries before the competition include a full biceps reconstruction. Even in his fight with Andreas Mikhailidis, his Octagon MMA debut, Hulme saw himself as a ‘dead man walk’, someone who ‘had nothing to lose’.
“I stepped in again against Mikhailidis, a slightly damaged and bruised dog,” Hulme continued. “I tore my bar two weeks before the fight, but there was just a different kind of faith, and I take that faith all the way to the top of the Tipsport Gamechanger.”
That faith should serve him well against humburger, who will have a home field advantage in Prague, with the crowd behind him. Hulme, the tendency of Humburger to fire crochet under pressure, noted that “I am sure he has evolved, I am sure he will be training and he has been added to his arsenal, but all that has been seen. I have seen all of that.
Mark Hulme started in his MMA trip, which dates from amateur fights in 2011, but really for his high school days. At the time, he went from frustrated by the authority he found during his school years, to a martial art gymst. His father actually presented him a choice: “It was one of the two options. He told me that I was sent to the boarding school or start training martial arts and learn some discipline.”
That is when Hulme discovered mixed martial arts and made his choice. ‘Against his better judgment, [dad] Take me to my first place, and immediately afterwards I got into the car and said to my father: ‘That’s it, I’m going to stop school, this is what I’m going to do. I am becoming a professional hunter. ” ‘
Hulme’s father had him finished in school, but the career path lingered. Yet it is somewhat ironic that a teenager who struggles with discipline and authority chose martial arts, with his tradition of, well, discipline and authority.
“It is not so much that I have a problem with authority,” Hulme noted. “It’s a problem for me when, how can I politely say this, it is a problem for me if someone has an authority who doesn’t really recommend it, it doesn’t really deserve it.”
“You are my teacher, your authority is to teach me and I will respect and listen to you. But if your authority is that I am a little sh*t, and I have to stay still and I have to do what you say because you are the teacher, then I will give you your finger and try to burn your class.”
“Martial Arts was like, oh you think you are a tough guy, but a few strokes, I soon learned, this is authority that I have to listen to,” Hulme admitted. “There are real consequences. They are not going to call my father and to him about my attitude, they are going to beat it out.”
All those years later, Hulme is about to have a UFC -Run and is now looking for serious money with Octagon MMA in the Gamechanger Tournament. The purpose of the UFC is still there, please note. Although the path may not be the smoothest for Hulme.
“In a way I would like to have a run in the UFC. It’s the organization. But on the other hand, if they can’t see the value in me, then I will not lick their f*cking. Octagon shows me a lot of love. Octagon invests a lot in me, “Hulme proclaimed.
Then there is the state of the world, with the US, Europe, China and everyone else demonstrably more chaotic than ever.
“SH*T Get crazy, man. If I say it that way, I don’t know if UFC will be the best choice if the Second World War breaks out. Whether that will even be a choice. Short term, Win Tipsport Gameshanger. That is number one, that is all my life changing. In the end I want to change my life, and I really want to be known as one of the best. I really want to be known as one of the best.
Hulme added that he not only “sucks his thumb” like any other hunter when he says so. “I want to fight the best, and if people are the best guys in the UFC, I will try my damn best to get there.”
View our full interview with Oktagon 74 Middleweight Mark Hulme above.
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