Dan Hardy wants one more fight and MSG would be right

Dan Hardy entered the UFC in 2010 and went on a four-fight winning streak. Then he went on a four-fight losing streak, but the company believed in him, and the excitement he brings to every fight. Almost uniquely in the history of the promotion at the time, the welterweight was not released from his contract.

Then in 2012, he beat Duane Ludwig and Amir Sadollah, and all was good. However, Hardy was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. The Mayo Clinic defines the genetic condition as, the presence of an extra, abnormal electrical pathway in the heart that leads to periods of a very fast heartbeat. In most cases, the episodes of fast heartbeats aren’t life-threatening, but serious heart problems can occur.”

The syndrome causes most patients to have heart palpitations and a rapid heartbeat. Hardy, however, is symptom-free, with a resting pulse rate of 42, and a maximum of 200. The Outlaw decided to forgo surgery, but commissions and his employer feared for his safety in the absence of surgery.

In 2014 he transitioned very ably into a color commentating role. Now Hardy tells MMANytt that he likely wants to fight one more time.

If I was gonna come back, I’d want a name, said Hardy, as transcribed by Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting. There’s a lot of guys in the lightweight division I would look at, there’s a lot of guys in the welterweight division I would look at. If I had my own choice I would take a fight at 161 or 162 and have that as a new weight class. There’s a need for a weight class in between those two weight classes and part of the resistance is Dana [White] doesn’t want to move the welterweight division to 175, and I absolutely agree, but that 161/162 weight class would be perfect for the guys moving up to welterweight or down to lightweight. For me, I would fight anybody in that weight class.

I like Madison Square Garden. I know there’s a November card coming up and there’s still time to get on that. If the offer is right, and everything moves in that direction, if not, maybe early next year.

I need to do the four-month USADA testing pool and the likelihood is I’ve got one more fight so I’m in no massive rush to get back into that. It’s a very intrusive program which I like as a fan, as an analyst, and as a member of the UFC staff but as a fighter, I don’t need people knocking on my door at 5 o’clock in the morning knocking on my door and asking me to pee in a cup, but I will do it for one more fight when the time is right.