UFC vet Marcus Davis and manager address inflammatory AIDS comments

The words didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, but UFC welterweight Marcus Davis’ recent statement about Dan Hardy did little to snuff the flames of a recent controversy over trash talk.

In a Monday post on his official Twitter account, Davis responded to a message mentioning his previous opponent Dan Hardy by writing, “I hope Dan Hardy dies of AIDS.”

The comment comes mere days after Frank Mir made a public apology for comments he made two weeks earlier during a radio interview in which he said he wanted to kill rival Brock Lesnar in competition and have the heavyweight champion “be the first death due to octagon-related injuries.”


The words didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, but UFC welterweight Marcus Davis’ recent statement about Dan Hardy did little to snuff the flames of a recent controversy over trash talk.

In a Monday post on his official Twitter account, Davis responded to a message mentioning his previous opponent Dan Hardy by writing, “I hope Dan Hardy dies of AIDS.”

The comment comes mere days after Frank Mir made a public apology for comments he made two weeks earlier during a radio interview in which he said he wanted to kill rival Brock Lesnar in competition and have the heavyweight champion “be the first death due to octagon-related injuries.”