Marcus Davis vs Dan Hardy UFC 99 fight booked for June 13
by MMAmania.com on Mar 5, 2009 7:52 PM EST
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Ask and you shall receive.
It appears that Marcus Davis (16-4) is making Joe Silva's job as matchmaker an easy one, agreeing to take on Dan Hardy (21-6) -- who called him out after a win over Rory Markham at UFC 95: "Sanchez vs. Stevenson" last month -- at UFC 99: "The Comeback" from the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, on June 13.
Davis took on Chris Lytle at UFC 93: "Franklin vs. Henderson" on Jan. 17 after "Lights Out" called him out after defeating Paul Taylor at UFC 89: "Bisping vs. Leben" in October 2008. "The Irish Hand Grenade" went on to win the 170-pound clash via split decision, setting a modern day record for combined total strikes in a professional mixed martial arts bout.
Prior to the win, the heavy-handed Davis -- a former professional boxer -- earned a slick second round submission win over Paul Kelly at UFC 89. The former contestant on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 2 boasts eight wins in 10 fights for the promotion, which is considerably more than Hardy's two wins in as many performances.
Perhaps that's the reason Davis intends to smash the relative UFC newcomer's face into dust when they meet inside the Octagon in Cologne.
On the other hand, Hardy may feel that he can do some smashing of his own after wrecking Markham with a first round knockout blow that put the Miletich-trained fighter out for the count. "The Outlaw" also has a split decsion win over the venerable veteran Akihiro Gono to his credit, highlighting that the blooming British star has not had an easy road since his debut for the organization.
It will be more of the same when he gets locked inside the eight-sided cage opposite Mr. Davis.
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I wonder if they’ll agree to keep it standing?
by NameNotRequired on Mar 5, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions
Hope not. I’m a big Davis fan, but I don’t like these gentlemen’s agreements. Kind of take the fun out of the fight.
by FCfightfan on Mar 5, 2009 8:06 PM EST up reply actions
I hope Davis teaches Hardy a lesson in respect and to wait his turn. Should be a good fight.
by iagoof22 on Mar 5, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
stop goofing around will u? sure davis will teach that punk a lesson…wtf!
by gaara on Mar 5, 2009 10:39 PM EST up reply actions
Come on now lets be real here, Davis is a gate keeper for Hardy. Davis is starting to get old, and he will probably never get the chance to challenge GSP, but Hardy on the other hand is young and talented with alot of potential, and could be a future threat for the WW division, and he also has more fights then Davis does.
WAR HARDY!
by N-Cryptic on Mar 6, 2009 12:20 AM EST up reply actions
Davis is going to be the superior counter puncher in this fight, i its going to take Hardy right out of his element. Davis via Tko in the second.
by belfort_fan on Mar 6, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
are you kidding? davis only wants it standing. im starting to not like this guy. i did not like the way he baited lytle into a standup war by telling him whoever goes for a takedown is a pussy. marcus davis is a pussy, he has no ground game, and he only wants to fight guys with no ground game.
by day1er on Mar 5, 2009 8:57 PM EST up reply actions
no ground game, yet has 8 submission wins vs 5 KO/TKO wins. Do your homework before you come on here with that trash. Watch the paul taylor fight and you’ll see what he’s made of.
by Crowls on Mar 5, 2009 9:02 PM EST up reply actions
thanks NM, seriously though. I immediately thought of the Taylor fight and was like hell, let me check his record for kicks. Why do guys post stuff without the facts, it’s so easy to find.
by Crowls on Mar 5, 2009 9:33 PM EST up reply actions
I think Davis has the advantage wherever the fight takes place. And Hardy was the one who initiated this by saying that he would beat Davis on his feet, I’m not sure why so many people are upset about Davis saying he wants to beat him standing.
by GregC on Mar 5, 2009 9:40 PM EST up reply actions
John – Hear anything about Bellator signing Sergio Moraes?
by NameNotRequired on Mar 5, 2009 10:15 PM EST up reply actions
crowls if your measuring stick of a ground game is the ability to sub a brit then i cant have an argument with you. he has never submitted anybody with a decent ground game and he never will.
by day1er on Mar 5, 2009 10:57 PM EST up reply actions
NNR: I dont know who that is, but recently I have been reading about a bunch of new bellator signings but didnt know who the fighters were so I didn’t really pay attention….I will check it out for you later… I actuallu think I read about the signings on Tatame.com !! Check it out if you get the chance!
NOt only will ~I be strongly rooting for Hardy, i actually like his chances!
by john on Mar 6, 2009 8:18 AM EST up reply actions
NO NNR: I just checked, and I didnt read about that. THey did sign some dude Johnny Eduardo
by john on Mar 6, 2009 8:59 AM EST up reply actions
first, my measuring stick has nothing to do with brits, fact is the man has 8 submission wins and shows some solid ground skills.
second, N-Cryptic- i didn’t forget that fight, he is one of the 8 sub wins. I was just thinking of the taylor fight cuz he was hurt bad, recovered, delivered some real good GNP and then pulled out the armbar
by Crowls on Mar 6, 2009 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
Davis has a ground game, he would just rather not have to use it.
by belfort_fan on Mar 6, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
Good looking out john, he’s the guy that ended Rickson’s son 50 wins streak at BJJ world championships. I was reading an interview where his friend hinted at bellator.
by NameNotRequired on Mar 6, 2009 6:58 PM EST up reply actions
Your right belfort-fan, Davis does have a ground game. I have trained with Davis at his gym in Maine and he runs the gym with a guy who was a Canadian wrestling alternate for the Olympics. day1er, if you were in a fight and your bread and butter was striking, you would strike. You wouldn’t take the fight to where you were less apt to win just to prove you have other game!
by xredxdoggx on Apr 9, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions
If Lights Out Lytle couldn’t KO Davis I don’t think Dan’s chicken arms will have a better chance…
by Arnold on Mar 6, 2009 9:07 AM EST up reply actions
Your punching power doesnt come from your arms smart one!!!
by belfort_fan on Mar 6, 2009 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
THAT DIDNT TAKE LONG. well, hardy got what he wished for….gotta walk the walk, but you wont. davis is a superior boxer.
by tonydanza on Mar 5, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed Davis should KO Hardy. Like Davis said he doesn’t hit anything, but average. I think Hardy will stand because he actually thinks he is better than Davis. Either way should be a great fight to watch.
by Bluepit on Mar 5, 2009 9:25 PM EST up reply actions
Hardy’s journey to the top is going to be short. That knockout over a guy with one lung was his first mma knockout. He’s crazy if he thinks that’s going to happen again. Markham is a dangerous fighter, but he’s just as dangerous to himself, leaving himself open. Watch that replay. He was wide open after missing a punch of his own. Davis won’t do that. Davis is my boy!
by FCfightfan on Mar 5, 2009 8:04 PM EST reply actions
He was wide open but that was poise from a man whose now knocked out 11 people in mma, not 1. He’s also never been knocked out himself.
Get your facts straight.
by scissorfight on Mar 5, 2009 8:43 PM EST up reply actions
He’s KO’d 2 and TKO’d 9. Not quite the same as 11 KO’s, but he has won a combined 11 fights by (T)KO.
by GregC on Mar 5, 2009 9:44 PM EST up reply actions
Boring match-up, easy win for Davis. Hardy needs to get off his high-horse and stop bigging himself up.
by jayshogun on Mar 5, 2009 8:06 PM EST reply actions
hey syd i read ur rply on the other post…sori jst rplied there…lol!
by gaara on Mar 5, 2009 10:41 PM EST up reply actions
I think Davis will smash him. But I had a dream the other night that Hardy KO’ed him with the first punch. Weird.
by shitleTOT.com on Mar 5, 2009 8:30 PM EST reply actions
Hope this is a free-bee. Should be. It’s a good card, but no real big names except for Wandy and Franklin.
by FCfightfan on Mar 5, 2009 8:30 PM EST reply actions
It will be in Germany so it might be free. I am excited about this card. Can’t wait to see how Wanderlie does against a top middleweight fighter. Techincally Franklin is a 205er now, but when he was at middleweight, he was in the top 3.
by RyanHobbs on Mar 5, 2009 8:36 PM EST up reply actions
Now we have to listen to 3 months of Davis talking up the “fight of the decade.” “The fight that when people look back 20 years from now they say, wow that was a great fight.”
“the kind where people are at the watercooling saying MAN DID YOU SEE THAT FIGHT WITH THAT IRISH GUY FROM MAINE?”
“The kind of fight that CHANGES HISTORY. Alters time. Reverses the space time continuum, makes the earth rotate in the opposite direction and change polarities. That is the kind of fight I am bringing to the UFC.”
by DirtyML on Mar 5, 2009 8:51 PM EST reply actions
Time for Davis to shut all the keyboard warriors on here up for good.
TKO R1
by Ronnie Coles on Mar 5, 2009 9:12 PM EST reply actions
If this card is free (which it should be) I will definitely be excited. 2 great fights so far.
by WB on Mar 5, 2009 9:24 PM EST reply actions
I hope davis gets choked out in this fight!!!
by the spyder on Mar 5, 2009 9:49 PM EST reply actions
Mane I hope this hardy guy dose his rock n rolla thing while thay anounce his name and then davis punishes him I hate that hardy guy what chump war davis.
Amor de rey
by king criminales amor de rey on Mar 5, 2009 10:47 PM EST reply actions
Careful what you wish for. Davis should end this one with a nice KO…
by ntvman on Mar 5, 2009 11:08 PM EST reply actions
Did it just get douchier in the room? How does Hardy deserve a fight wtih Marcus Davis?
by justagirl on Mar 5, 2009 11:23 PM EST reply actions
Why doesn’t Hardy deserve a fight with Hardy? Who does?
by BK on Mar 6, 2009 12:13 AM EST up reply actions
He doesn’t. But he opened his mouth, so now his chance at superstardom will be taken away. He should have to fight Lytle, or Paul Taylor. How does Ben Saunders deserve a fight with Swick? I think the UFC is afraid to lose their big Welterweight stars, like Kos and Fitch, so they are putting them up against nonames. Davis deserves one of those two.
by FCfightfan on Mar 6, 2009 12:29 AM EST up reply actions
Saunders is one of Danas favorites thats the only reason he’s fighting Swick. He better hope Swick takes knees like Brandon Wolf does.
by BK on Mar 6, 2009 12:42 AM EST up reply actions
I’m with Hardy. I don’t like Davis. I didn’t like is ‘’running away’’ style in his last bout. Hardy is cocky but he did a pretty good job against Markham as the last fight before the main event. If he knock Davis out, even with the fact that Davis is a better boxer , it will be superbe !
by Daddy Lupo on Mar 6, 2009 1:02 AM EST reply actions
WAR MAHCUS!!!!
In all honesty, both of these guys are pretty impressive. I give the edge to Davis though in all areas, especially punching power. Davis is one of my favorite fighters. Always brings it, even when he is injured. I still think he could have beaten Swick if he had been 100%. Kind of funny that Swick couldn’t finish Davis even though Davis couldn’t even lift his right arm. Davis is a tough bastard, and he will pull through on this one on pure grit alone.
by Mburtoni on Mar 6, 2009 2:09 AM EST reply actions
dan hardy is a second tier british fighter who gets on the show to promote UK cards.. now he’s fighting a professional boxer, when he even admits his own standup is lacking.. he wasn’t looking that strong in the last fight before getting a break on that uppercut..
marcus by total annihilation
by dan hardy on Mar 6, 2009 7:11 AM EST reply actions
dood your crazy! – Hardy is definitely underestimated when standing. Can you imagine semtex fighting davis? davis would get battered! Hardy n semtex hav been around together. Hardy will reign supreme
by Insain on Mar 6, 2009 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
To call Marcus Davis a “pro boxer” gives him undue kudos. I hate the man so I’ve never bothered to check out his “pro boxing” record, but I hear it’s pretty average and he didn;t exactly fight any contenders, nor win many titles. To hear some of you guys talk, you’d think Dan Hardy was taking on Lennox Lewis or Sugar Ray Leonard. Davis’s stand up is very average. He’s only fought one guy remotely near the top twenty (Swick) and just got destroyed, and Swick’s hardly the next Cro Cop. As for Davis being an exciting fighter, I was at the Swick fight and it’s the only fight I’ve ever been to live where the crowd did a mexican wave! That’s how exciting Davis is!!!
by attakdog on Mar 6, 2009 11:11 AM EST up reply actions
Davis is 17-1-2 as a boxer, which makes him one of the greatest boxing to MMA transfers in MMA history. Of course nobody in MMA could break the top 50 (in any weight division) in boxing, so his record is pretty solid. Us Maine boys do pretty good, Tim Sylvia, Marcus Davis, Dana White,Tim Boetsch etc… That is pretty good for a frozen wasteland with a little over a million people and a limited amount of training opportunity. Davis by TKO in the 3rd.
by reality on Mar 24, 2009 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
swick is very good he was like 6-1 at 185 and has no losses at 170
by hatteras on Mar 6, 2009 2:16 PM EST reply actions
Swick’s a decent fighter granted, but he’s not “very good”, he’s nothing special in the stacked 170 division.
by attakdog on Mar 6, 2009 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
I bet gsp’s praying davis wins because I’m sure that stare down hardy had with him ran shivers down his spine. I don’t like either of these guys and just hope one gets KTFO.
by nathan on Mar 6, 2009 2:58 PM EST reply actions
Hardy will pound Davis just like Lytle did, I know Chris lost the fight but as I see it Chris was the aggresor the whole fight and did more damage to face and head of Davis. If Chris would not have gotten hurt in that fight Davis would have been destroyed, he looked destroyed after the fight. I honestly believe that alot of folks under estimate Dan and how strong he is.
by Spyder on Mar 7, 2009 2:22 PM EST reply actions
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