Ole Miss’ Greg Hardy suffers punishing blow, knockout at UFC 264
By Keith Farner
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Former Ole Miss defensive end Greg Hardy suffered a punishing blow at the hands of Tai Tuivasa in a UFC 264 fight on Saturday night.
Hardy, 32, suffered the second knockout loss of his career, as Tuivasa, of Sydney, put him down with a counter left hook just 67 seconds into their heavyweight fight at UFC 264 in Las Vegas, ESPN reported. The finish came after Hardy rocked Tuivasa with a right hand and aggressively moved forward for a finish. Tuivasa regained his footing and threw the perfect two-punch counter to put Hardy on his back.
Hardy went down from the shot and then started to turn away from the swarming Tuivasa. But the Australian didn’t let him off the hook and landed several blows to finish the fight.
The NFL has wanted nothing to do with Hardy, who faced domestic violence charges in 2014, Pro Football Talk noted. He played just one game for the Panthers that year because of the domestic violence case, then played 12 games for the Cowboys in 2015 but hasn’t drawn any interest from NFL teams since.
The UFC has tried hard to promote Hardy as a potentially elite fighter, although he appears unlikely ever to reach the upper echelons of mixed martial arts. He has now lost two fights in a row and his record in the UFC is 4-4.
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A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
