{"id":604947,"date":"2026-04-15T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604947\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:42:08","slug":"former-ufc-heavyweight-mark-hunt-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604947\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt arrested on domestic violence charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 14, 2026, 11:00 PM ET<\/p>\n

Former UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt<\/a> has been arrested in north-east NSW, Australia, on domestic violence charges.<\/p>\n

According to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, Hunt was taken into custody by police after they were called to an address in the Northern Rivers region on Tuesday evening [AEST]. He was later taken to Ballina Police Station and charged with one count of stalking or intimidation with intent to cause physical harm.<\/p>\n

Hunt was refused bail ahead of a court appearance on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Hunt, now 52, was one of Oceania’s early UFC stars, the heavyweight known as the “Super Samoan” forging an eight-year, 18-fight career between 2010 and 2018. He headlined five separate UFC events during that period and fought for the interim heavyweight title against Brazilian Fabricio Werdum<\/a> at UFC 180.<\/p>\n

Hunt has also competed in kickboxing and boxing, famously fighting both rugby league great Paul Gallen and dual-code superstar Sonny Bill Williams.<\/p>\n

Mark Hunt fought in the UFC for eight years, at one stage challenging for the interim heavyweight title\u00a0Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hunt also unsuccessfully sued the UFC, its president Dana White, and former WWE star Brock Lesnar<\/a>, after it was revealed Lesnar had failed drug tests before and after their fight in 2016. Hunt originally lost the fight, with the result later ruled a no contest on account of Lesnar’s positive tests.<\/p>\n

The Ninth Circuit of Appeals eventually upheld the ruling in favour of the UFC and White in 2025, after Hunt first commenced legal action in 2017.<\/p>\n

Hunt’s last fight in the UFC was in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 14, 2026, 11:00 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt has been arrested in north-east NSW, Australia,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-604947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}