“I was just saying to my training partners the other day – I was showing them pictures of the last UFC fight week. My name wasn’t on my shorts. I didn’t have any abs, because I was in the wrong weight class. I hadn’t even had a chance to get a haircut, because it was that short notice. I’m glad I get the chance to do the pictures properly now!”
As always, Hardwick will be supported in his corner by his brother, former Cage Warriors lightweight champion and Contender Series alum George Hardwick. The two siblings have been ever-present in each other’s corners during their careers, and Harry admitted that, without backing each other, there’s a fair chance neither would have made it this far in their respective careers.
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“We wouldn’t be fighting if we both weren’t doing it,” he explained.
“There has probably been a point where I’d have stopped if he wasn’t still doing it, and then there would have probably been a point where he’d have stopped if I if I wasn’t still doing it. We’ve always just lifted each other up.
“I think the thing with your brother in particular is, in life, they’re your first friend, but they’re also your first rival. There’s a lot of hard pushing each other in training. It’s been going on the 16, 17 years we’ve been training now. This journey, I wouldn’t be on it without him. It’s our journey. It’s not just me fighting, or it’s not just him fighting. It’s us.”