If you thought Greg Hardy wasn’t a fan favorite before, just wait. After a blistering start to his bout with Allen Crowder, a fatigued Hardy (3-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) launched an obviously illegal knee to the head of a downed Crowder (10-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC), flattening him and leading to Hardy’s disqualification at the 2:28 mark of Round 2. The heavyweight bout was the co-main event of today’s UFC on ESPN+ 1 show at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. It streamed on ESPN+ following prelims on ESPN and ESPN+. Related Twitter reacts to Greg Hardy getting disqualified for illegal knee at UFC on ESPN+ 1 In the early seconds, it looked like another Hardy fight just like the ones we’d grown accustomed to on Dana White’s Contender Series. But when Crowder proved capable of taking a punch and slowing Hardy down with his grappling work, some holes in the game of the former All-Pro NFL player began to show themselves.
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