Dan Hardy drops weight and red mohawk for do or die bout vs. Lytle
Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy is 0-3 his last three fights, losing to Georges St-Pierre, Carlos Condit, and Anthony. With one more…
Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy is 0-3 his last three fights, losing to Georges St-Pierre, Carlos Condit, and Anthony. With one more loss, despite an enormously compelling fighting style and personality, hardy will likely but cut by the UFC.
“In the last two fights, I haven’t done my skill set any justice. I’ve been really disappointed with my performance in the gym and inside the Octagon,” Hardy told the ESPN UFC Podcast.
“Since the Georges St-Pierre fight I’ve been experimenting with weight-cutting. The Anthony Johnson fight, I didn’t want to be an undersized opponent. I gained a lot of weight ever since the GSP fight, doing things like power-training, and a lot of it has been detrimental to me.
“The extra weight has slowed me down so I’ve cut that down. I started training camp at 190lbs this time, and I’ve been staying between 185 and 190, and I feel awesome. I’m landing three or four times as many punches per round in sparring, I feel like I can go forever – I feel like the Duracell bunny!”
Dan Hardy vs. Chris Lytle welterweight main event on UFC Live, August 14 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, airs live on Versus.
