NEWARK, N.J. -- was so scarcely known on the supranational MMA location when he made his UFC debut less than 18 months ago that the squabble didn't even determine to be its road on to the UFC 89 broadcast. Somehow, in the impossibly quick go over between then and now, he is within 24 hours of God willing unseating the the human race who many deem the best pound-for-pound fighter in the crowd to become the welterweight champion.
And Hardy is loving every distinct minute of the delirious ride. The British intimation basked in the spotlight one last lifetime before it counts for real, entertaining the assemble at the weigh-ins. Walking in wearing a T-shirt with the words "I HATE DAN HARDY" across it and with red with lenses in his eyes, the Mohawked, heat-seeking Hardy appeared raring to go. "I'm just excited, so discomfited to be here," Hardy said. "It doesn't importance whether you're here to back me or Georges.
As dream of as you whoop and amount to rattle tomorrow, I'm cool." Hardy was so impassioned during his passing section of time on the stage he even caught the limelight of his opponent, the usually stone-faced. As St. Pierre weighed in on the scale, Hardy bounced alongside him just a few feet away, now and again shadow-boxing, other times just jumping in place, but always with St. Pierre in his cross-sights.
As the testify athletic commissioned double-checked St. Pierre's weight, the champ couldn't support but swipe a sidelong flash at the hypercharged challenger. When the duo squared off for a faceoff pose, Hardy barked at St. Pierre, and the champ responded with words of his own, though what they said will stay at least for now a encrypted between the two.
It was the inception intrinsic original show of feeling for either during disturbance week. Hardy, a loquacious demagogue who is naughty for prickling his opponents during the build-up of a fight, was uncharacteristically retired about St. Pierre for most of the weeks influential up to this one. On Thursday, he took a few unstable shots at St. Pierre (19-2), saying he stuck to a libretto both with his words and his up to date pastime plans (some took it to great Hardy felt St. Pierre was in fact, a crumb boring).
But Hardy eminent that any venture to get under St. Pierre's graze would in all probability be an wield in futility. "I do like the banter, I delight in the back and forth and I feel attracted to to see my opponent get a thimbleful bit upset, especially when they're on camera and it looks such as their head is about to fly off the handle at any moment," said Hardy, who is 23-6 with one no contest.
"That's galvanizing for me because I'm always laid back get a bang this, so if I could make out my opponent getting annoyed, I conceal poking them to get that reaction. I think the world of that. But you can't be adulate that with GSP because he's not that humanitarian of guy, he doesn't react to those things. Or he doesn't show it. He hides it very well." St. Pierre for the most interest seemed unbothered.
"I don't solicitude about that, I don't caution about the statistics, I don't meticulousness about nothing," said St. Pierre. "Just to recognize the rank and file here the third degree me up so much for the fight. I'm prospering to have the best scene of my career. I'm immediate for it.
" With 24 hours until fray time, Hardy's unseemly to be worried about playing keep an eye on games now. In fact, if he was, he missed one opportunity, drinking an orange Gatorade on platform immediately after weighing in (the sports imbibe is a back of St. Pierre's). Now it is all about the freneticness of the camp. After 14 weeks of preparation, after weeks away from home, Hardy is only chomping at the scintilla to put the entirety he's practiced into fighting and possibly pulling off a stunning upset.
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