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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"The longer a fight is, the more you can get hurt. I want to take [Dan Hardy] out as fast as I can and go home... He deserves [this Title shot]. He's undefeated in the UFC, and he's a great challenge for me. He's a top-10 guy, and we haven't fought yet. Most of the contenders at 170 pounds are guys I've already fought. It's a mathematics problem. It's a new problem that I'm going to solve. It's going to make me a better fighter. I'm going to grow from that... I'm the kind of guy that the reason why I fight mostly three times a year – I don't fight anymore five times a year – is that every time I fight, it's a big fight. I prefer it like this because I want to get the big fish. I want to get the best fighter. At the same time, it give me the opportunity to improve more between fights because I have more time to train. I become a better version all the time than the guy that I was in my last fight. That's why I like it that way."
-UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre talks to MMAJunkie.com about his UFC 111 opponent Dan Hardy and trying to fight only three times a year.
Penick's Analysis: That's one of the great things about watching GSP from fight to fight. While he's already considered one of, if not the, very best fighters in the world, he continues to evolve and improve every time he goes back to training. He continually makes an effort to not just sustain the current level he's already reached but make himself even better. Dan Hardy is in for a fight and a fighter he's not come close to experiencing in his career to date at UFC 111, and it will be great to see GSP back in the Octagon again after the injury layoff.
[GSP art by Cory Gould (c) MMATorch.com]
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