{"id":128780,"date":"2025-09-08T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128780\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:25:07","slug":"harry-hardwick-shares-statement-from-hotel-toilet-after-loss-to-brazilian-lumberjack-at-ufc-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128780\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Hardwick shares statement from hotel toilet after loss to \u2018Brazilian lumberjack\u2019 at UFC Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MMA is a hell of a sport. On some nights you win, and you end up partying in the most exclusive clubs with some of the biggest celebrities in the world. On others you get finished in the first round and end up eating ice cream on a hotel toilet so the ice bags on your shins don\u2019t wreck the room\u2019s carpet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s how highly touted Cage Warriors champion Harry Hardwick spent his night after UFC Paris. Hardwick stepped in on a week\u2019s notice a weight class up to take on Kaue Fernandes, who employed a blistering leg kick attack to drop the British fighter to the canvas in agony just three minutes into their fight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\/387473\/ufc-paris-results-video-highlights-espn-fernandes-leg-kick-wheelchair-hardwick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(watch the highlights here).<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHoudini\u201d was so battered in the legs that he had to buttscoot over to Fernandes to congratulate him on the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now Hardwick has released a statement on the loss, and he did it in an appropriately bizarre way for such a bizarre fight: he filmed his video on the toilet eating an ice cream with his shins wrapped up with massive bags of ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m all right. That was s&#8211;t. I was s&#8211;t. But I\u2019m all right,\u201d he said. \u201cFour days notice a weight class up. I thought, \u2018Yeah, f&#8211;k it, I\u2019ll do it.\u2019 It is what it is, man. Never in a million years did I think that was how my UFC debut would go. It is what it is. I can stand. I\u2019m all right. I don\u2019t think anything\u2019s broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m gonna try and find somewhere cleaner when the ice bags melt so I don\u2019t have the world\u2019s biggest ringworm. But I\u2019m good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Fernandes loss snaps the 7-0-1 run Hardwick was on in Cage Warriors before stepping into the octagon. We\u2019re sure \u201cHoudini\u201d will have mastered the trick of checking leg kicks before returning for a follow up fight with the UFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA is a hell of a sport. On some nights you win, and you end up partying in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-128780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}