There was plenty of blame to go around for last Friday’s bizarre scene at UFC on ESPN 6 in which heavyweight Greg Hardy was inexplicably permitted to use an inhaler between the second and third round of his bout with Ben Sosoli, and fingers have been pointed at Hardy and his team, as well as the commission.
At that evening’s post-fight press conference, UFC president Dana White was mystified by the series of communications that led to Hardy’s mid-match puff (an infraction that resulted in his decision win over Sosoli being changed to a no-contest), saying that he had “no clue what anybody who was involved in that situation was thinking,” and that as far as he knew, the only thing fighters are ever allowed to ingest between rounds is water.