Filed under: Featured , News , UFC , Videos So there I was, drinking my morning coffee and reading this Bleacher Report column by Patrick Wyman, a writer I like and respect. The column’s all about Greg Hardy, the former NFL defensive lineman who now says he intends to become a professional MMA fighter after being essentially driven out of the league by alleged incidents of domestic violence. I found myself nodding along as Wyman listed all the reasons why we shouldn’t welcome a man with Hardy’s past into MMA, and then I came to this part: “It’s one thing to bring on fighters with troubled pasts of whom the general public knows nothing. It’s another entirely to bring on someone who’s already famous and whose public profile is dominated by trouble around a serious social issue such as domestic violence.” That’s when I had to stop and ask myself, wait, what are we really talking about here? It’s reasonable and relatively easy to adopt the con position when it comes to Hardy’s MMA ambitions. NFL reporter and MMA trainer Jay Glazer did so quickly and with great fervor almost as soon as reports of Hardy’s intentions surfaced.
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