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SPX
03-23-2010, 10:16 PM
TORONTO -- English welterweight Dan (The Outlaw) Hardy's stomach tattoo was airbrushed out of the UFC 111 fight poster because it is "anti-Chinese government stuff," according to UFC president Dana White.

"I'm trying to get into China," he told fans at a question-and-answer session Tuesday. "I don't need anti-Chinese government stuff on my fighters."

Hardy, however, says the tattoo -- the fighter's favourite -- is a Tibetan Buddhist prayer written in Sanskrit.

"It's basically just like a prayer for focus," Hardy said. "It keeps me walking the path that I should be walking without veering off and distracting myself."

Apprised of that explanation, White said: "That's not what I heard."

"This thing popped up and I heard that it was anti-Chinese government, so I ripped that thing off it. I'm not going to put him on a poster with anti-Chinese government writing on it when we're trying to get into China. . . . I don't what this stuff means, so I've got to be safe."

Hardy challenges Canadian Georges St-Pierre for his UFC welterweight title Saturday at UFC 111 in Newark, N.J.


http://www.tsn.ca/mma/story/?id=315214
Mr. IWS
03-24-2010, 08:32 AM
Soon he will be shopping GSP's head on all the white fighters, and Anderson's on all the black guys.
SPX
03-24-2010, 10:49 AM
Shit like that makes the UFC seem totally amoral.

Why not take a political or moral stance for once? The Chinese government obviously has done a lot of fucked up shit. Everyone knows it.
zY|
03-24-2010, 12:22 PM
^^or try figuring out what it even means instead of just going on hearsay. Hardy said it just some type of Sanskrit prayer.
Svino
03-24-2010, 01:01 PM
We already know Dana and the Chinese govt. have similar views when it comes to freedom of the press. Seems like a good fit.

I'd be really amused if Hardy told the tattoo guy to just give him a tat of "a Buddhist prayer" and the guy put "FREE TIBET!" on his stomach.
Luke
03-24-2010, 02:28 PM
Shit like that makes the UFC seem totally amoral.

Why not take a political or moral stance for once? The Chinese government obviously has done a lot of fucked up shit. Everyone knows it.


Its all about money man ,no one wants to piss off a country that has 10x the people as the US