Hardy: GSP is an athlete, not a fighter
“He obviously didn’t want to take any risks in the fight, fair enough. He’s got a lot riding on the…
“He obviously didn’t want to take any risks in the fight, fair enough. He’s got a lot riding on the fight, that’s fair enough. There’s winning, and ‘winning’ and no disrespect to Georges, but that’s not how I would want to win a fight. But he got the job done and that’s why he’s got the belt and I haven’t.”
“All trash talking aside now cause obviously the fight’s done and out of the way, and I’ll be saving it now for my next fight against him, but I did say it in the build up to the fight that he’s not a fighter. He goes out there to win the fight, that’s what he does.”
“In my opinion, the way to win a fight is to go in there and you take it from your opponent. You beat it out of them, and that’s how I always want to approach my fights. Some people are different and Georges approaches it like a professional athlete approaches a sport. He goes out there and does what he needs to do to win.”
“At the end of the day, he’s still an opponent and I do want to fight him again.”
“People probably think I’m big headed by saying this, but before the fight, stepping in there, I was either like I’m going to knock him out, or I’m going to be completely overwhelmed by him, and realize I don’t belong in there. But neither of those things happened. I didn’t land that shot to stop the fight, but at the same time I didn’t feel overwhelmed, I felt outpointed.”
“All I need to do now is get back in the gym and get to work on those areas of the game and bring them up to speed. I don’t think the title’s too far in the distance for me. I think I can get there and I can hold the belt and basically build a legacy in the sport. I’m just not quite there yet.”
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