“Dan’s in a great position. All the pressure is on GSP for this fight. I know Dan’s a consummate professional and I know from the UK scene he’s come up with a great game plan to bring the UFC welterweight title back to England. I will be up late, and cheering Dan on for sure. [...]
While UFC welterweight title challenger Dan Hardy continues to remain in the headlines due to ongoing verbal conflicts with some of his past opponents, the British slugger’s date with Georges St-Pierre at UFC 111 later this month is fast approaching.
St-Pierre, the popular French-Canadian champion, hasn’t yet found himself as much of a target for Hardy’s [...]
Former WEC welterweight champion Carlos Condit returns to the gym this week after a nearly two-month absence as the result of a serious cut on his hand.
While cleaning his garage in December, Condit sliced his hand on a broken bulletin board. Doctors, though, would soon rush the UFC fighter into surgery after discovering one of [...]
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“I think Georges is going to kill him. I think Dan Hardy’s an up-and-comer guy, he’s a young guy. He has a lot of potential. In my opinion, he’s a good B-level fighter and I think Georges is going to destroy him. He’s young, that’s the thing. He could be a great fighter one [...]
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“It’s getting scary. Georges is getting better and better, believe it or not. If I compare him to last year he is far beyond where he was. He’s a very scary individual. I can’t even put him in with anybody his size. I can’t put him with another welterweight because there is no other [...]
UFC welterweight champion, Georges St. Pierre, discusses moving up a weight class to fight at middleweight.
“He has a lot of skills. He’s got really good power. The problem with guys like Dan Hardy is that he’s young, he’s hungry, he’s got very good skills and if he catches you the wrong way, you zig when you should have zagged and that might be it. Remember that Matt Serra was never [...]
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Quoteworthy:
“He knows what’s coming. He knows there’s a left hook with his name on it and at some point in the 25 minutes I’ll land it. I’m expecting him to take me down. At some point in the fight I’ll end up on my back and I’ll fight from it. When you’re fighting GSP [...]
Hard-hitting (and crowd-pleasing) welterweights, Marcus Davis and Phil Baroni, have verbally agreed to throw leather at UFC 111 from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on March 27, 2010.
The promotion has made no official announcements about the 170-pound match up or the actual pay-per-view (PPV) event at this time; however, that’s expected to change very [...]
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Quoteworthy:
“I definitely want to fight (St. Pierre) again. What kind of fight do they want to put on in Abu Dhabi? Do they want me to fight a Frankie Edgar or a Gray Maynard? Or do they want me to fight a ’super fight’ against somebody in Aloha Stadium, and do they think they [...]