After nearly ten years on the sidelines, former UFC title challenger Dan Hardy is making a return to prizefighting. As it was announced late last week, “The Outlaw” will take on fellow UFC veteran Diego Sanchez in an exhibition match on July 2nd in Manchester, England.
Despite the long layoff that’s unprecedented for a professional fighter, the 39-year-old Hardy does not doubt that he made the right decision. The biggest reason: money.
“The honest truth is this is a good middle ground financially, because what we were being offered for MMA was pitiful, and what was being offered for bare-knuckle was three times what we were being offered for exhibition boxing,” Hardy recently told MMA Fighting.