Quote from Hardy.
I’ve defended my position as a UFC fighter like everybody else does with regular opponents, because who the hell walks in and fights Derrick Lewis?
HW has always been pretty thin and we've seen lots of guys jump into the deep end for better or for worse. Hardy is being fed lower competition to build him up for reasons I can't understand. He gets boo'd the majority of the time, has a shitty past and seems to disregard the rule set. I can only assume that Dana and Co feel he has some following from his days in the NFL.
JDS debut into the UFC was against Werdum. He then went on to fight Struve, CroCop, Yves, Gonzga, Nelson, Carwin, Cain, Mir, Cain, Hunt... The list keeps going with top opponents.
Lesnar was tossed into the deep end instantly with Mir, Herring, Couture...
Carwin's third fight was against Gonzaga then Mir, Lesnar.
Hardy's opponents so far.
Allen Crowder - Lost his first UFC fight in R1 then got the W over Hardy because he was DQd from an illegal knee then lost his next bout.
Dmitry Smolyakov - Lost his first two UFC fights, gets a win at Aslan Challenge then the UFC called him back to get beat up by Hardy.
Juan Adams - 1-1 in the UFC and fought Hardy two months after losing to Arjan Bhuller.
This isn't Greg just fighting through regular opponents. These are gift wrapped guys bring paid to be a punching bag. If he wins his next fight I hope they match him up with a guy like Rothwell, Oleinik or Harris.
