While Dan Hardy is now perhaps best known for his position as an analyst and a color-commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), “The Outlaw” used to compete inside the octagon. Now Hardy has come forward to reveal that he is interested in one more fight.
Dan Hardy has not competed inside the octagon since earning a unanimous decision victory at UFC on Fuel TV 5. In 2013, the fighter pulled from a match up against Matt Brown after being diagnosed with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome.
Speaking to MMANytt, Hardy revealed that there is a possibility he makes a big octagon return. Check it out below:
“If I was gonna come back, I’d want a name. 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 [pounds] or 162 [pounds] 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 [pounds], 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.”
