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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Dan Hardy will not be fighting in London this February, as he will not be ready to get back into the cage until a little later in 2013.
That's what he told Siyar Bahadurzada on Twitter when the bout was proposed to him.
"Sorry mate, I won't be ready to fight in February," Hardy wrote. "Enjoy fighting in London though, the UFC fans are always great."
According to a report from MMAWeekly.com, Hardy is likely to return in April, though he hasn't yet explicitly stated his intended return time.
Penick's Analysis: That would have been a good welterweight fight, and it's possible they could still meet depending on how quickly Bahadurzada wants to get back into the cage. And there's got to be something keeping Hardy out beyond February, because he and the UFC surely would have liked to have him on the London card.
[Dan Hardy art by Cory Gould (c) MMATorch.com]
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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