Ivo C.
17-03-2010, 09:02
“I’ve been in this situation a hundred times before. Every time I step into the Octagon I’m expected to lose,” said Hardy during a teleconference call on Tuesday promoting the championship bout. “Marcus Davis (http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Marcus-Davis-8592) was supposed to put me out; he was too strong for me and Swick was too fast for me. I’ve heard it all the way through my career. I’m stepping into this fight a bigger underdog than I’ve been before, which is just going to make me perform even better. I take that pressure and I deal with it better because it raises my game. It forces me to fight better.”..
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“Georges is the kind of guy that’s going to push me in areas I need to be pushed,” said the 27-year-old Hardy. “I want to explore what else I can do in the sport. I’m willing to stand and trade punches with anybody. No one’s really been able to force me to a ground game yet and I’m hoping Georges is that guy because I have a lot more to show.”
“More than anything, Matt’s (Serra) been in there twice with Georges and obviously he won one and lost one,” said Hardy. “So, he’s got a lot of experience in there with the guy and obviously saw the mistakes he made in the second fight. He can relate to me so I don’t have to make those mistakes myself. I think he looks at me and sees the situation I’m in exactly same as the situation he was in the first time. No one gave him a snowflake’s chance in hell and he had a lot of belief in himself.”
“I’ve got nothing to lose,” said Hardy. “I’m in a situation where I can go and have a good time and be myself and make a fight out of it….Me taking the belt off Georges is really going to open the place up. I think people are more excited about the potential of what could happen in the division when (I win) the belt more than the fight they think I can win.
source sherdog
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“Georges is the kind of guy that’s going to push me in areas I need to be pushed,” said the 27-year-old Hardy. “I want to explore what else I can do in the sport. I’m willing to stand and trade punches with anybody. No one’s really been able to force me to a ground game yet and I’m hoping Georges is that guy because I have a lot more to show.”
“More than anything, Matt’s (Serra) been in there twice with Georges and obviously he won one and lost one,” said Hardy. “So, he’s got a lot of experience in there with the guy and obviously saw the mistakes he made in the second fight. He can relate to me so I don’t have to make those mistakes myself. I think he looks at me and sees the situation I’m in exactly same as the situation he was in the first time. No one gave him a snowflake’s chance in hell and he had a lot of belief in himself.”
“I’ve got nothing to lose,” said Hardy. “I’m in a situation where I can go and have a good time and be myself and make a fight out of it….Me taking the belt off Georges is really going to open the place up. I think people are more excited about the potential of what could happen in the division when (I win) the belt more than the fight they think I can win.
source sherdog