GSP or Hardy? Carwin or Mir?

Here’s how it breaks down, according to the comments made in this promo video:

Georges St. Pierre is on a whole other level than everybody else in the welterweight division. Dan Hardy says that doesn’t matter because he’s has had more fights than GSP.

GSP says that Hardy is the toughest opponent he’s ever faced. Either he’s forgotten about BJ Penn, Matt Hughes, Jon Fitch, Thiago Alves, Josh Koscheck, hell even Matt Serra, or he’s just being really, really, really generous.

Hardy’s plan is to hit GSP as many times as he can before he gets taken to the ground and then to get back to his feet and do it again. Okay, I’m with him on the first two parts of that plan. It’s the whole “get back to his feet” part that I’m stumbling over. Who gets back to their feet that St. Pierre doesn’t let get back to their feet?

Hardy also asks how many of the fans’ favourite fighters does he have to beat before they take him seriously. Hmm…good question. First, let’s consider all those fan favourites that Hardy has beaten – there’s Mike Swick maybe, or Marcus Davis, or maybe he means Akihiro Gono. All fan favourites compared to Hardy, who sets himself up as the heel, but none of them are what I’d call favourites in the sense that fans are buying their T-shirts and cheering them on regardless of who they fight.

Okay, on to Frank Mir vs. Shane Carwin for the utterly meaningless interim heavyweight belt and a “guarantee” of a shot at Brock Lesnar’s title. Hyperbole all the way considering UFC president Dana White was clear that Cain Velasquez is also in that mix following his destruction of Minotauro Nogueira at UFC 110.

I do get a kick out of Carwin’s comment about his penchant for rendering opponents unconscious: “I’m just competitive and I know that knocking ‘em out wins.”

Oh, and Mir’s obsession with Lesnar is creepy and borderline unhealthy.