Mark Hulme returns to action at Oktagon 74, facing Dominik Humburger in the Tipsport Gamechanger Middleweight Tournament. Hulme, with a record of 13-3, previously appeared on The Ultimate Fighter 32, where he lost to Paddy McCorry. He views the experience as necessary for his growth. Although he sustained injuries before his bouts, he emphasizes how these challenges have shaped his belief in himself. Hulme considers his fighter mentality as one that grows through adversity, and he feels prepared and confident heading into his next fight against Humburger.
You take a dog, a fighting dog, you put it in a cage, you beat the sh*t out of it, maybe break its leg or something and then you put it up to fight, naturally that dog isn't going to perform the way it should, or can. The Ultimate Fighter for me personally was, I lost a fight, and big respect to Paddy, but I think that was something that I needed. Something that, it's not something that I wanted, it's something that I needed.
I went in there with this mentality of, give me what I need, not necessarily what I want. And obviously I wanted to win that, but looking back, I can see where I am today, this is exactly where I wanted to be.
I stepped in there against Michailidis again, a slightly battered and bruised dog. I tore my lat two weeks before the fight, but there was just a different kind of belief, and I'm taking that belief all the way to the top of the Tipsport Gamechanger.
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