Due to contracting COVID, Vitor Belfort has had to pull out of Saturday’s boxing match against Hasim Rahman Jr. at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Rahman will now face former UFC heavyweight Greg Hardy.
Hardy stated, “I’m excited man, this is my chance to show that I belong in the boxing world. I know plenty about the Rahman name as boxers, and I know he was preparing for Vitor, but I’m definitely confident and prepared to show people I can box.” In Hardy’s corner will be former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs.
Rahman-Hardy will air on DAZN around the same time as DAZN streams a boxing event from Guadalajara, Mexico, featuring a clash between WBO #1 middleweight Jaime Munguia (40-0, 32 KOs) and Gonzalo “El Mago” Coria (21-5, 8 KOs).
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Looks like ESPN+ will pick up the BT Sport feed of the Euro super bantamweight title fight between Liam Davies (12-0, 5 KOs) and Ionut Baluta (15-3, 3 KOs) from Telford, England. WBO #1 light heavyweight Anthony Yarde (22-2, 21 KOs) will also see action on that card against Stefani Koykov (14-1, 12 KOs).
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Hopefully some U.S. outlet will pick up Saturday’s long awaited clash between WBA cruiserweight champion Arsen Goulamirian (26-0, 18 KOs) against mandatory challenger Aleksei Egorov (11-0, 7 KOs) at La Paletre in Le Cannet, France. If not, Canal+ will air the fight. Goulamirian has been out for almost three years old due to various problems including the pandemic pause and a subsequent Covid-19 infection a week before stepping into the ring last year.
Hardy has much work to do if he steps up against real competition in the world of boxing. Hardy fights stiff, arm punches, and has no head movement. Yes, he has a puncher’s chance, but much work needed for establishing good boxing skills. The future remains to be seen in this case.
Strange. Why is Vito boxing at this stage in his career? Why is Hardy replacing him? Both do not have the skills to match up with Rahman Jr, who is no elite, but has only been training in boxing for his entire career. Either way, let’s hope for a good fight where no one is seriously hurt and above all, that they all have a nice payday.
Rahmans son is the new family joke ..he and fury back out of fighting Jake Paul and now see a way of making money fighting non boxers ..
These UFC guys must be making significantly more money to get there brains scrambled by actual boxers. The things people do for money…
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Why is Rahman Jr. doing all these fake bouts against no boxers? He f doesn’t care about his boxing career?
I was wondering the same thing…
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Rahman needs to fight REAL opponents.
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Can someone explain the appeal of seeing two people from different sports compete in one of their sports? I have no desire to watch Alexander Ovechkin take on LeBron in basketball no matter how great an athlete Ovechkin is.
Rahman Jr come on man
Oh yeah, Greg Hardy is just a UFC Heavyweight flunky. Never mind the fact he was a star DE in the NFL. His NFL career was cut a little short because he was a complete psycho. I guess Rahman is taking a page out of Jake Pauls’ book where fighters of limited skill but with name recognition could make a lot more money fighting other fighters of limited skill, but with name recognition. Typically fledgling UFC fighters. Why not? Makes perfect business sense. Why risk potentially losing to a boxer with an 8-5 record that nobody has ever heard of when you could beat an ex UFC fighter that everybody has heard of, but has never a proboxing match in their life.
Thats not fair Jake Paul. Paul was a YT personality, Rahman is a trained boxer from a Boxing family. How many celebrities can start boxing and beat trained UFC fighters in a Boxing ring? Lets remember Anderson Silver beat Chavez jr. very easy so martial artist are not that far off from Boxing. Cant be mad at Paul for the big fights he made and won.
I didn’t say I was mad at Paul, just stated exactly what he’s doing. It’s a smart business plan on his part; why fight the typical unknown boxers one fights at the start of their career when you can fight guys with name recognition? And yes, what makes Jake Pauls win over Silva even more impressive is the fact Silva beat Chavez Jr a year ago, but who knows what the hell is going on in Jr’s world these days. You can’t blame Paul for his success, but my gripe with him is in the sport of boxing, you have to pay your dues to make the money he makes off his fights, and he hasn’t. What he’s done so far is very impressive, but is the fact he beats retired basketball players and UFC fighters worthy of Million dollar paydays? Hell no! There’s a cruiserweight climbing the ranks now who also got a late start in boxing, a former college football player name Brandon Glanton. He probably makes 20 g’s a fight tops. Match Paul up with someone like that and see where he really stands in the boxing world.
Oh noooo! Hardy is going to get humiliated! May be seriously hurt! This dudes must be desperate to make a buck somehow!
The undercard fighters count on these events going forward. Hopefully Rahman actually decides to fight and does not cancel.