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Marcus Davis and Dan Hardy engaged in a long, drawn-out war of words prior to their fight at UFC 99 on Saturday, and Davis now says that verbal battle helped Hardy win their physical battle in the Octagon.

This is the UFC 99 live blog for the undercard fight between Dan Hardy and Marcus Davis.

Hardy and Davis have engaged in a war of words leading up to this fight, and that has made what would otherwise seem like a fairly ordinary welterweight fight into one of the most anticipated undercard bouts at UFC 99.

UFC 99 has begun, and the Dan Hardy vs. Marcus Davis live blog is below.

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The run-up to the UFC 99 fight between Marcus Davis and Dan Hardy has focused mostly on the fighters' personal animosity for each other, and the above video pretty well shows that animosity on display.

The news that Kimbo Slice will appear on Season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter (which is filming now and airing in the fall) was met with approval from the four established UFC fighters who spoke to the media today on a conference call to promote UFC 99, all of whom said appearing on the reality show was an appropriate first step toward becoming a UFC fighter.

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The June 13 UFC 99 fight between Marcus Davis and Dan Hardy was already expected to be a grudge match, with Hardy talking trash about Davis on various Internet MMA forums, and Davis responding by writing at UFC.com that he hates Hardy. But that grudge match got even more heated Tuesday on a conference call to promote UFC 99, with Davis and Hardy insulting each other over the phone while the media listened.

It started with Hardy claiming that he hadn't posted all the negative things about Davis that had been attributed to him, and Davis responding to that by saying, "You're a liar." And it devolved from there.

Before UFC 93, Marcus Davis and Chris Lytle promised that their fight would be a stand-up battle. They delivered.

After the 1996 Olympics, Dan Henderson was a world-class athlete looking for a way to make a living. He had just competed in Greco-Roman wrestling in Atlanta, and he knew he wasn't ready to retire as an athlete at age 26, but he also knew there was no professional Greco-Roman wrestling circuit.

So he decided to take a shot at mixed martial arts, a sport so obscure that when he told people he was doing it, most didn't know what it was. Even those who had heard of it were only vaguely aware of what it was; some people called it Ultimate Fighting, some called it vale tudo, some called it no holds barred, and some called it savagery unfit for an Olympian.

But Henderson entered the Brazil Open in 1997, and that began an MMA career that has seen him fight professionally on four continents, and an MMA career that continued on Saturday with his victory over Rich Franklin in the main event at UFC 93.

Welcome to the FanHouse UFC 93 live blog, where we'll have live, round-by-round updates of the three undercard fights on today's UFC pay-per-view show.

The undercard consists of Alan Belcher vs. Denis Kang, Marcus Davis vs. Chris Lytle and Jeremy Horn vs. Rousimar Palhares. When those fights are over, you'll want to switch over to our UFC 93 main event live blog, where we'll have round-by-round updates of the co-main event, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Mark Coleman, and the main event, Rich Franklin vs. Dan Henderson.

If you just want to know who won and how, check our UFC 93 results page. The undercard live blog has begun and is after the jump.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is in Ireland on Saturday for UFC 93, a pay-per-view show that has been lost in the shuffle between the great UFC 92 and UFC 94 cards. But while a lot of fans will skip this card, we'll be here at FanHouse all weekend with full coverage. Below is everything you need to know to get ready.

The latest installment of Dana White's UFC 93 video blog shows the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship talking about the public reaction when he said he could bench press 300 pounds.