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Famous Last Words: Dan Hardy Edition

(For reference: St. Pierre vs. Serra 1, UFC 69, 4/7/07.)

From an interview with #1 welterweight contender Dan Hardy on Sherdog:

“I’ve accepted that, at some point, [St. Pierre is] going to take me down. I’ve accepted that I’m going to be fighting off my back for some of the fight and I’m just going to work to get back to my feet and do what damage I can from my back…I don’t want it to become too much of an issue — defending the takedown — because I won’t throw like I do against anybody else,” Hardy said. “I don’t want to be holding back on any of my kicks and punches because, at the end of the day, that’s what is going to win me the fight. My intention is to go in there, throw hard, just like Matt Serra did, but obviously a little more technical — I’m a little quicker and more technical. I’ve got reach and weight on Matt Serra, so I can do exactly what he did but a lot better…
 
The fight’s basically going to be, I would say, two rounds of me defending takedowns and getting up off my back and landing shots as soon as I can, as soon as I can get some space, and in the third round I think I will connect with something clean and hurt him,” Hardy said. “I certainly think by that time he will already be opened up and bleeding.”


Just to summarize, Dan Hardy‘s plan is to go at GSP swinging, assume he’ll be able to get out from underneath St. Pierre once he’s inevitably taken down, and hope that the welterweight champ suffers another once-in-a-lifetime fluke upset. Dios mio, man. But even though Hardy seems like he’s inviting disaster with his relatively carefree attitude about GSP’s wrestling, he does have a point in that if he does win the fight, it’ll be because he opened up on his feet, and fearlessly threw strikes at St. Pierre. Better fighters than Hardy have gone up against Rush, tried to stop his shot, and failed miserably, so why even bother making that part of your gameplan? Why not just focus on what you’re good at, right?

I get it, but in the aftermath of Serra’s crushing loss to St. Pierre during their rematch at UFC 83, Serra’s first winning strategy seemed like nothing more than a fluke. To stand a chance against GSP, you must somehow deal with those infamous takedowns. Your takedown defense must be airtight, or your defensive/offensive skills off your back must be brilliant. Hoping to box up GSP to a victory without the aforementioned attributes is a long-odds proposition, to say the least. Just because it happened once, doesn’t mean it’ll happen again.

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BobLoblaw- December 16, 2009 at 6:27 am

here’s a snapshot into gsp’s class: in the pre-fight smacktalk between koscheck and st pierre, it went like this:
Kos – st pierre has no heart, that’s how i’ll beat him. i have more heart than he does. plus, if the fight isn’t going the way i want it to, i’ll just take him down and use my wrestling. i’m a far better wrestler than him…
GSP – i av no art? well, dat tells me koscheck had a camera in front of im and e had to think of someting to say. since he doesn’t know how e’s gonna beat me or what my weakness are, dat’s de bess e could come up wit for de camera.
well, kos, we all know how everything you said was oh so wrong, and you ended looking like a jerk after that ass whoopin’ he gave you. when hardy meets a similar fate, i’m sure gsp will demonstrate a similar level of class.

Emopinata- December 16, 2009 at 3:53 am

Harry Russo,
you’re a moron. A fluke is a fluke.. no matter how he won.. ?
he would never be able to do it again, and that makes it a fluke, lightning doesn’t strike in the same spot twice…

GSP is going to GNP this clown out. And I want to laugh during it.

Clinch-Smash- December 16, 2009 at 2:44 am

Hardy has less chance then timmy had aginst fedor, that is just a fact.
GSP R2 via strait up fuckin’ murder!

Harry Russo- December 15, 2009 at 11:55 pm

Fluke win, bullshit. Serra hit him, hurt him, smashed his face. Nothing “flukey” about that. If anything, all you gay for Georges, you should be kissing Serra’s garlic smelling, guinea ass for making Gsp humble and a better fighter.

Bingo Wings- December 15, 2009 at 11:08 pm

Ah, one of my favorite fights. It’s awesome, I get to see GSP right where he belongs.. on the shit end of an ass whooping. I’m not saying GSP sucks, I’m saying I wish he sucked, so that I could see this more often.

richorama- December 15, 2009 at 9:34 pm

hey man, you’re gonna be ok. that’s a pretty good plan you got there, mr outlaw.

on another note, i’ve noticed that the first commenter on several recent articles has alluded to the inferiority and/or diminished mental capacity of the subsequent comment(er)s. thereby insulting all readers who decide to comment, in advance. to that i say: bravo.

Sully- December 15, 2009 at 9:10 pm

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHbj pennHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDDUHH GAWAHHHHHHHHHHdiego sanchez sucks. pickles.
-this concludes today’s retarded comment list.

Get Off Me- December 15, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Yes Bob Reilly he is. This match is a formality…I just hope this fight does not leave Hardy souless. The fight I cannot wait for and that must be made is Hardy v. Alves! This is the style match-up I like at WW and it will be a great fight….do it Joe Silva, do it.

@skeletor
When you popped out of the lava at the end of the credits in Masters of the Universe, how did you get out of there afterwards?

Bob Reilly- December 15, 2009 at 5:52 pm

That Georges guy is pretty good eh?

meanfinger- December 15, 2009 at 5:25 pm

this must of been a comment after a long swisher sweet diaz-style training session..

BobLoblaw- December 15, 2009 at 4:48 pm

dry hump murder! hahaha!! i also liked the balrog comment

Penis tattoo of invincibility- December 15, 2009 at 4:43 pm

Lol @ Sabalo Gigante

I live the UK and think it’s great that we’ve finally got one of ours in a title match, and one that as earned a shot from winning fights, and not being the only Brit that anyone has heard of (I’m looking at you Bisping). So I’m just gonna sit back and enjoy the milestone that it is.

HOWEVER

GSP by dry-hump murder in the 2nd.

nicey- December 15, 2009 at 4:18 pm

haha nice Balrog reference guy

BobLoblaw- December 15, 2009 at 4:01 pm

sabado – that impression was hilarious!
some good comments so far. here’s my take on it: when gsp lost to Serra (chump that he is), it was the mother of all rude awakenings for him. that said, i don’t think he’s ever gonna take an opponent lightly again, since he wants to hang on to the belt a while longer. remember, when he worked his way back up from the loss to serra, he mowed through the likes of kos and hughes and then, when it was gsp vs. serra redux, fugetaboutit – that wasn’t a ufc match; it was a lesson.
also, what georges did to bj penn needs to be reexamined for its value for the following reason: bj totally dismantled a juggernaut like sanchez, made poor diego look like some flub they pulled off the street and offered 50 bucks for a shot at the title. diego’s no pushover, but look at his face today. now, flash back to the beating gsp have penn: his corner had to throw the towel in, he had nothing left. no defense, no offense, no ability to recover from the takedown. he had nothing.
now along comes this hardy character. yeah, he’s got some speed and some strikes. so do all the competitors gsp has eaten alive. if hardy thinks he’ll pop up from the takedown where a master like bj penn couldn’t, he needs to reexamine his strategy. good for him to have the shot, but i think it’s as likely that he’ll beat gsp as it was likely that forrest griffin could take silva. a fun fantasy for the underdog that ufc management is indulging in, giving all the romantics out there something to pine over. in the end, i’m calling it a tko by gsp early in the 2nd.

MyFightWiffaCheeto- December 15, 2009 at 3:56 pm

The only person who I think who has a shot at stopping someone like GSP’s takedowns is more than likely going to be the winner of Pedro Martinez-Don Zimmer II.

blaphtome- December 15, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Could be misinfo. put out to make everyone forget he’s been spending a lot of time grappling (Eddie Bravo), not that it would necessarily save him; but a little misdirection never hurts. Hell he was smart enough to sucker Davis (good match-up) into a fight. Whatever the case the odds certainly are against him, but he seems to be very fast growing and intelligent as a fighter so I look foward to seeing what he’ll bring to the table.

Robocop Didnt Tap- December 15, 2009 at 3:45 pm

GSP via 2nd round nipple twist.

TURN UP DA RIDDUM!

idiotequeonze- December 15, 2009 at 3:41 pm

Its too bad that GSP has to waste a fight with “Ed” Hardy, that fight is gonna be a one sided beat down. Hardy has no “Riddum”!

Endocat- December 15, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Dan’s plan is to work on getting up WHEN he is taken down, why waste energy on the takedown? GSP will get you down eventually, so why not work on getting back up?

A fighter that knows he can get back to his feet is more dangerous than a fighter that doesn’t want to be taken down.

Sabado Gigante- December 15, 2009 at 2:55 pm

GSP via not beeing eem press by yr pa form aaans

maqkish- December 15, 2009 at 2:52 pm

@petro

WORD!

macreadysshack- December 15, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Dan Hardy is to GSP what Diego Sanchez is to BJ. And LOL at all this talk about GSP’s takedowns. Yeah, they’re great . . . BUT . . . his top control is even better. Best of luck getting up when BJ and Alves could not. Best of luck with that triangle or armbar, too. He just won’t have the answers to GSP’s athleticism and smothering top game.

That said, he’s got to get his mind right to fight this Balrog mother****er. I think he’s telling himself the right things. Unfortunately, it will not change the result.

for the love of mma- December 15, 2009 at 2:39 pm

Half of me is saying he is a fuckin idiot and the other half say’s he might just pull this off!! i know swick is no gsp but he threw swick a beating and marcus davis and i was for sure he was going to lose both of those fights. so he might pull this off!!

LOL NOT!!!! GSP by bitch-slapping-awsomeness

mmacanada- December 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm

I still think Swick may have threw that fight a little. I think he understood that the winner was essentially signing their own death ticket. GSP round 1 via tko.

Section8MMAJimmy- December 15, 2009 at 2:37 pm

Dan should really get some new footage to watch. If he is planning on that George to show up he is in for a rude awaking. Any way you look at it Dan is going to lose, Thiago and BJ are much better strikers than Matt Serra, and George made them both look foolish.

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