UFC 111: 1~2~3~4, Watch Dan Hardy Hit The Floor!

The War of words between Welter Weight Champion Georges St-Pierre and challenger Dan Hardy continues.

Dan Hardy threatens to hit Georges with everything (including the proverbial kitchen sink), while Georges states he is going to make Dan Hardy sorry.

Dan says he wants to take Georges' belt: Georges say, "no way!"

It kind of takes me back to recess duty on the playground when I subbed for middle school. The sounds are the same, as well as the threats.

So the crescendo will continue to increase until Saturday night when the fight airs on PPV or at a Buffalo Wild Wings near you.

Interestingly enough, if this also takes Georges back in time to when he was bullied at school by boys who stole his lunch money and tore his clothes, he may just rip the cockscomb hairdo off Dan Hardy's head. I am sure Georges' father, who finds such hair styles distasteful, would approve.

True, a long time has passed since Georges' bitter days of being beaten up and humiliated, but he is a far different person now than he was then.

Best of all, this time he has trained and is conditioned to return the favor and beat the bejesus out of this new would be bully who wants his belt.

Georges has described what has happened when he has run into the bullies of his past in his present life. Nothing, mainly because that crowd knows better now, as well as the fact that Georges refrains from fighting in the streets.

Hardy, on the other hand, brags of being the kid who beat-up on classmates at the age of six, having to be be put in martial arts classes by his parents to channel his rowdy behavior and energies into more acceptable behavior.

Thus the stage is set for a classic showdown: the bully and his would be victim.

Being the mother of a son who was bullied in grade school, largely due to me teaching him to be a pacifist, I am hoping that Georges will score one for all those who have had to face a bully during their lives.

It took me a while to change my views on life, teach my son that he was a person of value, and then teaching him how to defend himself just as my father had taught me.

My son did fight back. He won, then had the greatest revenge by growing up and being man-sized and a fighter in seventh grade and all through high school.

Folks may laugh, but I even had to work with him on how to make a mean face when he was a defensive lineman on an all star high school football team.

Georges will have no trouble looking fierce. Listening to Hardy's braying and oye, oye, oying all these weeks could make any saint angry.

But Hardy wants a brawl. Many others have learned the lesson to be careful what they wished for where fighting Georges is concerned.

When Hardy gets his wish on March 27, Grandma will be watching.