Greg Hardy’s year could not have bene more calamitous. Every single time he stepped into the octagon, the fights were secondary to either the quality of opponent or the rules of fighting itself. Hardy got tested by Alan Crowder until being disqualified for landing an illegal knee.
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Dimitry Smolyakov and Juan Adams put in performances that did not prove fruitful.
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Then we had Inhalergate, the upside of which got us a classic Dana White response.
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Hardy tried to change his career trajectory by filling in last minute against Alexander Volkov, and ended up painfully and tediously outclassed.