All-around combat event commentator
In today's mixed martial arts events, there are two main types of people who work as commentators: one is a "theoretical expert" type commentator who is not an athlete but has dabbled in martial arts skills and is even very familiar with it; and the other is a "practical expert" type commentator who is an athlete, has rich competition experience and is good at expression.
In a mixed martial arts competition, it is often led by the "theoretical expert" type commentator, who disassembles and analyzes the characteristics and techniques of the contestants to the audience, while the "practical expert" type commentator is more of an auxiliary, and when the game is in a state of anxiety, use their own experience to speculate on the tactics that will be used by the next step of the boxer on the field.
However, there are also some commentators who are both "practical experts" and "theoretical experts" and can switch at will during the game. Dan Hardy, a former UFC boxer from the UK, now plays the role of a versatile commentator, theoretically familiar with taekwondo, boxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, traditional Chinese martial arts, loose hands and many other genres. In practice, he has competed for the title with legendary boxer Georges Saint Pierre at the world's top mixed martial arts event UFC, and is the kind of person who has real materials and can comment on it at will in the commentary booth without worrying about the boxers coming to the scene because of anger.
An English youth who is familiar with the eighteen martial arts
Dan Hardy was born on 17 May 1982 in Nottingham, East Central England. From the age of five, Dan Hardy began to learn martial arts skills, and his initial education was completed at the Taekwondo Gym. At the age of seven, Dan Hardy began competing in various taekwondo competitions in the surrounding area. By the age of ten, the less confrontational taekwondo could no longer satisfy Dan Hardy, and he began to learn more aggressive techniques to free up his excess adolescent energy. During this time, Dan Hardy studied karate, wrestling, judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The close-quarters martial arts skills learned during this period also laid a solid foundation for Dan Hardy's future participation in professional mixed martial arts competitions.
During his studies at Nottingham Trent University (majoring in art and design), Dan Hardy, who was already a taekwondo black belt and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu brown belt, found that there were very few people on campus who shared the same hobbies as himself, but Dan Hardy, who did not want to waste his martial arts, quickly found a boxing club and a Muay Thai club and began to formally learn these two more traditional and popular stand-up fighting skills.
In 2002, Dan Hardy graduated from university (suspended, the degree seems to have been obtained with late remedial credits). At that time, with Dan Hardy's fame and handsome appearance, he had become the object of contention in many stand-up and mixed martial arts events. But Dan Hardy packed his bags and headed to China in the far east.
In various subsequent reports, there have been many media outlets that have hyped up Dan Hardy's travels to China. Some media even said that Dan Hadi went to the Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain, China, to learn art. However, according to Dan Hardy himself, he joined a British exchange program and went to Jilin Province in China. For most of his life in Jilin Province, Dan Hadi learned the traditional Chinese martial arts routines while learning Sanda (Sanda), because of his boxing and Muay Thai skills, Dan Hadi improved quickly in Sanda.
In 2003, Dan Hardy returned to the UK. It took a year to learn all the martial arts genres he had learned in the past, during which Dan Hardy also participated in some amateur competitions to test his theory.
Career
On June 6, 2004, Dan Hardy made his first professional mixed martial arts match against Lee Doski in the seventh installment of EB (Extreme Brawl), but Dan Hardy, who had no professional experience, was not quite accustomed to the rhythm of the game and was demoted by his opponent naked hanging a few seconds before the end of the second leg (4:59). But the match strengthened Dan Hardy's determination to continue his professional fighting career.
In the years that followed, Dan Hardy made appearances in a number of events such as Full Contact Fighting in the UK – Fighting Night, CWFC, British Fight Club, British Storm, Absolute Fighting Championship, KOTC, and won both light middleweight and sub-middleweight titles at CWFC (Cage Warriors Fighting Championship: Cage Warriors Championship).
In 2008, Dan Hardy, who was in the limelight at the time, was signed to the UFC by Bai Dana, and Dan Hardy also repaid Bai Dana's insight with his actual performance. He played a beautiful four-game winning streak in two years after signing with the UFC. Send yourself directly to the position of UFC Champion Challenger.
On March 27, 2010, at the UFC 111 in Newark, New Jersey, Dan Hardy competed with Georges Saint Pierre (GSP), who was at the peak of the UFC sub-welterweight championship. Two martial artists with the most comprehensive techniques in mixed martial arts played five full rounds. During the match, Georges Saint Pierre knocked Dan Hadi to the ground several times and had several opportunities to use the Kimura Clip on the ground, but was escaped by Dan Hardy. In the end, Dan Hardy lost to Georges Saint Pierre by unanimous judgment, missing the UFC champion Gold Belt.
In the next two years, Dan Hardy's career hit a low point, and he lost to Carlos Condit, Anthony Johnson, Chris Reiter and other famous players in UFC competitions. Although Dan Hardy won two straight in 2012, the opponents were either late-career veterans like him (Amir Sadora, that's you) or boxers already on the verge of being fired from the UFC.
Retired due to illness, transferred to the commentary station
In late 2012, Dan Hardy was diagnosed with a heart disease called Wolf Parkinson White syndrome, which was internationally treated with no specific treatment, except for rest, and the only treatment was to open the chest and burn the lesions of the heart tissue. After listening to the doctor's explanation, Dan Hardy gave up this treatment after much consideration, which meant that Dan Hardy had to retire and undergo a long-term recuperation. Although dan Hardy looked back on his UFC career and regretted not winning the UFC title, he still won 6 wins and 4 losses in his 10 UFC matches, and won one best game of the night award and one best KO award.
Although no longer a boxer, Dan Hardy began to play in a different capacity in the fighting arena, where he worked as a commentator for MMA events to explain many MMA matches, including UFC events, and as a game data analyst, performing data analysis for FOX and Sky Sports in the UNITED Kingdom.
In March 2021, Dan Hardy was fired from the UFC for a fierce conflict with a female UFC employee. After that, Dan Hardy began to run his own online self-media with peace of mind, continuing to explain various martial arts competitions on the Internet.
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