JRE MMA Show #187 with Robert Whittaker · Aired Oct 22, 2026
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Mark Hunt weighed 265 pounds for a fight against a 185 or 205-pound opponent.
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What remains unresolved
Joe is discussing Mark Hunt and Wanderlei Silva, and immediately allows either 185 or 205 pounds for Silva. A large heavyweight-versus-smaller-fighter contrast is plausible, but the exact 265-pound bout-night figure was not established from a primary weigh-in record. The first pass treated normal divisional size as proof of exact fight weights.
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Is it true that Mark Hunt weighed 265 pounds for a fight against a 185 or 205-pound opponent?
We can't say yet. Joe is discussing Mark Hunt and Wanderlei Silva, and immediately allows either 185 or 205 pounds for Silva. A large heavyweight-versus-smaller-fighter contrast is plausible, but the exact 265-pound bout-night figure was not established from a primary weigh-in record. It was said on JRE MMA Show #187 with Robert Whittaker, aired Oct 22, 2026, at 1:48:49. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. No supporting source was captured, so don't treat this as a sourced conclusion.
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