UFC on Versus 5 – Dan Hardy done with trusting people to keep their word and fight him standing

Under pressure UFC welterweight, Dan Hardy has been giving his thoughts on his upcoming UFC on Versus 5 showdown with experienced veteran, Chris Lytle next month in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, explaining he’s preparing every aspect of his game this time around as he knows someone’s word to keep the fight standing counts for very little.
Speaking via the Winnipeg Free Press, Hardy said:

“I can’t expect anything from anybody anymore, I’m over trusting people. I learned that lesson in my last fight. Obviously, Chris Lytle isn’t the kind of guy that would want to disappoint the fans and kind of hold somebody down for 15 minutes, I can’t imagine the fight’s going to be like that. But either way I’ve got to be prepared for it. Like people keep telling me, it’s mixed martial arts not kickboxing and I need to be a wrestler as well as a striker. I’m going to work on everything, regardless.”

“The reality is I’ve been in this sport a long time and I’ve stopped a lot of takedowns and I’ve taken a lot of people down. It just so happens that the two fights that I did lose were to good wrestlers and they were on national TV. I’ve been training wrestling and jiu-jitsu since I got into the sport. It’s just something that’s not always been available to me. It’s something that I’ve made an effort to seek out and now I’ve really got to switch my focus and put some more time into it.”

The Nottingham boy will have the U.K fans behind him for sure when he faces ‘Lights Out’ next month, but we should hope for Hardy’s sake that he’s also been brushing up on his ground game just in case Lytle decides to mix things up on the mat in Milwaukee, Wisconsin