Dan Hardy: “I’m not that person anymore.”
By Adam Guillen Jr. | MMAMania.com
“That’s who I was. I’m not that person anymore. The mohawk’s gone and just the whole arrogance that came with it that I showed those first few fights in the UFC. That played its role, you know? It was an important phase in my life and I learned a lot from it. The way I acted led to the right fights and the right situation at the time arose from those fights and I got a title fight in four fights, which is early for anybody in the UFC, you know? As some point, we all have to evolve a little and I have changed. I feel much better about myself and I don’t feel like I’m putting out a bad impression on my species for acting the way that I did and the way some people do on The Ultimate Fighter and stuff.
There’s a lot of tie-ins with that for the reason I changed my haircut as well because it seems that the UFC tries to find one guy with a red or a pink mohawk for every season and that was the guy that was drinking too much and throwing stuff into the pool. I’m not that guy, but I guess my brand kind of got ahead of me and became something I didn’t want it to be and I had to step away from it.”