UFC: 'Outlaw' Dan Hardy returns to Nottingham in search of redemption Hardy is the first and only Briton thus far to fight for an Ultimate Fighting Championship world title. After a meteoric rise in the UFC with four wins, he took on Canadian George St Pierre for the welterweight crown in Newark, New Jersey in March 2010, suffering a loss which then precipitated a horrendous run of four defeats. I had a couple of intense weeks of grappling with Ricky Lundell. That was just in case I hit Sadollah a couple of times and he decides he's a grappler. I can't wait. Hardy, an eclectic personality who trained with Shaolin monks in China to prepare for a life as a mixed martial artist, and who is an aficionado of the expressionist artwork of Egon Schiele, needs just to join the dots at the Capital FM Arena. A win here is all that counts. Elsewhere on the main card, world No 6 bantamweight Brad Pickett - a Londoner who once enjoyed a semi-professional football career and who boxed - faces Yves Jabouin the Haitian-born Canadian. And Paul Sass, the unbeaten submission expert from Liverpool, meets a genuine test against the powerful Coloradan Matt Wiman.