It is not often that the welterweight division carries a UFC Main Event, but that might only be what happens when the UFC 120 prospects action gets moving. Welterweights Dan Hardy and Carlos Condit will beat the tar out of each other for five rounds or fewer on Saturday October sixteenth at the O2 Dome in London England. It is possible to be sure that more than just a couple of fanatics will be cheering for the English hero Hardy.
What makes this matchup all the more remarkable is that it has the prospective to be the fight of the night and perhaps the bout that MMA fanatics most want to see, and yet it is not even the Main Event of the UFC 120 betting competition.
For those MMA fanatics not familiar with him, Dan Hardy from Nottingham, England is one of the best welterweight competitors in the world and could only be the best welterweight in the world aside from Georges St Pierre. His career record of 23-7 is a lot more impressive than it sounds and he could only be the best pound for pound competitor in the UFC 120 prospects competition.
Hardy is 23-7 in 31 career MMA games, but a lot of of his losses came in early stages in his career in the pretty low level English MMA fighting scene, which is for all intents and purposes unimportant. In his UFC career Hardy has been impressive, going 5-1 with his sole loss arriving to the immortal St Pierre in March of this year in a Welterweight title game. Following that particular competition, nevertheless, even St Pierre was pleased with Hardy's performance. Even when Hardy was at danger of having his arm shattered, he refused to tap out. St Pierre stated his shock later that Hardy refused to tap.
In the UFC 120 prospects competition, he will be fighting a pretty gifted adversary in Condit. Condit, fighting from Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a gifted all around competitor that can pose issues for his competitors in any number of ways. With a 25-5 lifetime record, he knows his way around the Octagon. But he hasn't confronted as challenging an adversary as he's going to encounter in London before now, and this may very well be a career defining game. He's 11-1 in his past 12 competitions and has won two straight bouts arriving into this matchup.
Condit formerly fought in a promotion similar to the UFC, World Extreme Cagefighting. He was the ultimate WEC welterweight champ in that promotion. He made the move to UFC after the WEC buyout and made his debut at UFC Fight Night 18. He lost that competition via split decision versus Martin Kampman. His most recent competition in the UFC betting action was at UFC 15, where he fought versus Rory MacDonald. That fight, which he won in the third round with a TKO, won the Fight of the Night award. He's now rated the #10 welterweight in the world by Sherdog.
Nonetheless, Hardy is the #4 rated welterweight in the world by Sherdog and should get the win. But these two high-ranking, hard-hitting welterweight champs should put on a good show for viewers and fanatics.
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