Mixed Martial Arts - MMA

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is going back to Primetime. In the weeks building up to the welterweight championship fight, the UFC will be airing a special three-part series profiling the main event combatants. The series will follow the training camps and day-to-day lives of champion Georges St-Pierre (19-2) and challenger Dan Hardy (23-6) in the weeks leading up to the fight.

The series will debut on Wednesday, March 10th at 10 p.m. EST and continue on the 17th and 24th. Each episode will air on Spike TV.

England's "The Outlaw" Dan Hardy has already begun his pregame trash-talk on Canada's Georges "Rush" St-Pierre and it's no secret that Dan intends on knocking him out. The welterweight mega-fight will take place on March 27th at UFC 111 in Newark, New Jersey on pay-per-view.

In his last bout at UFC 105, Hardy defeated American Kickboxing Academy's Mike Swick by decision. Swick had been rocked numerous times by the heavy-handed Brit throughout the fight. With this key victory, Hardy becomes the first English fighter to compete in a UFC championship bout.

At UFC 100, St-Pierre made striking phenom Thiago Alves look like an amateur in a five-round destruction. St-Pierre pulled his groin in the third round of the bout with Alves but still dominated the fourth and fifth rounds. The pulled groin didn't require surgery but St-Pierre has not fought since.

Last January, the "UFC Primetime" special featured St-Pierre and lightweight champ B.J. Penn in their much anticipated rematch at UFC 94.

Tags: Dan Hardy \ Georges St-Pierre \ GSP \ MMA \ Primetime \ UFC

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