Marcus Davis and manager address inflammatory AIDS comments
The words didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, but UFC welterweight Marcus Davis’ recent statement about Dan Hardy did little…
The words didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, but UFC welterweight Marcus Davis’ recent statement about Dan Hardy did little to snuff the flames of a recent controversy over trash talk.
In a Monday post on his official Twitter account, Davis responded to a message mentioning his previous opponent Dan Hardy by writing, “I hope Dan Hardy dies of AIDS.”
The comment comes mere days after Frank Mir made a public apology for comments he made two weeks earlier during a radio interview in which he said he wanted to kill rival Brock Lesnar in competition and have the heavyweight champion “be the first death due to octagon-related injuries.”
The Hardy comment was deleted several hours later.
Davis’ manager Joe Cavallaro was at a loss when MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) informed him of the comment, and he initially doubted its validity. If true, he said, it was likely a joke taken over the line.
“I’ve known Marcus a long time, and I’ve never heard him say anything like that,” Cavallaro said. “Marcus has four kids. That’s not something he would go around saying. I know he wants to fight Dan, but I don’t think he’d say anything like that.”