Marcus Davis’ UFC 99 Blog – Fight Day

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By Marcus Davis

Fight day is here. Time to get this over with, get this guy and his mouth and taunts out of my life. Fight week has been okay; it got here Tuesday and I was by myself for a few days before my team got here. It’s the way I like it, being by myself for a few.

Last night I went out for dinner with Mark (DellaGrotte) and some friends; we had Italian in this great restaurant everyone in the UFC was recommending. Even though I still have to be careful with what I ate, it was okay to relax the diet a little and have some good company.

Again, I have to thank the fans for their support. And this time, not just emails, but in person.

At the hotel, I was given a Waterford soccer shirt by Irish fans from Waterford, which is where my mother is from in Ireland. These guys actually bought me the shirt, brought it over to the show, and tracked me down to give this to me. That’s such a huge, generous gesture. I was so touched, I wore it when I walked out for the weigh-in. I will treasure it. Another group of fans gave me the shamrock boxer shorts I wore, I was given an Irish flag at the weigh-in – I’ve been given so much stuff by Irish fans.

They’ve really taken me to their hearts, and I can’t express how much it means that these guys from Ireland, real UFC fans from Ireland, can tell how genuine my affection and pride for my Irish heritage is. I was extremely moved by each and every gesture these guys made for me. How can you truly express “thank you” enough? I am more determined than ever to get the most devastating, one-sided win of my career.

I told everyone they will be shocked by the kind of shape I am in, and a lot of people did say they were shocked. I used this whole disrespect campaign of his to fuel me, and I have never trained like this before.

He is praying I peaked too early, but my trainer said my best pad sessions ever – ever – have been in the last 48 hours. So how is that for peaking too early, Hardy?

I am happy not to be asked to be at the press conference Thursday. The time for talking is over, and I didn’t want to sit there pretending I want to do anything but smash this guy’s face.

I’d already made a point of getting into an elevator with this guy, just the two of us, and looking right at him. He kinda smirked, but I knew he is rethinking whether this whole plan of his – call me out, piss me off – is about to backfire.

A lot of people are very interested in this fight, and he is going to look very foolish after tonight is over. There’s a huge bridge right outside our hotel over the river Rhine. Hardy is going to be so humbled, so embarrassed I think he’s gonna throw himself off that bridge and let himself sink to the bottom of the river just so no one can see him. He’ll be ashamed to show his face in the UFC again.

I was expecting some silliness from him at the weigh-in and the UFC were telling me to be cool.

First, Burt Watson told me to be cool. Then Dana, then Joe Rogan and Eddie Bravo and then Marc Ratner. But I said “No. It is on. If he disrespects me I will react.”

But while Hardy and I were waiting in line before we got through the curtain to go in, Hardy said, “I am not going to do anything, let’s just do a normal fight pose”. I said: “If you do a normal so, so will I” and that’s what we did.

But I wasn’t going to shake his hand. No interest. No interest in ever shaking this guy’s hand. And did you notice he got booed at the weigh-in? People don’t like the trash talk.

I am not impressed at all by him. He doesn’t look very athletic, he doesn’t look strong, he doesn’t look much of anything physically other than he looks worried.

Now he is thinking “Maybe my plan is about to backfire... maybe I shouldn’t have pissed him off so bad... maybe instead of acting like a 12 year old on the computer, I should have been preparing...”

For the first time since this whole thing started in February, Dan Hardy has something right. But it is too late!

Enjoy the KO!

For more information on Marcus, visit http://irishhandgrenade.com/

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