The scheduled Aug. 6 boxing pay-according-to-view card headlined by Jake Paul and Hasim Rahman Jr. has been canceled because of a weight problem with Rahman, Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions wrote in an announcement Saturday night time.
The occasion changed to take location at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
According to MVP’s announcement, Rahman’s camp advised Paul’s group Saturday morning that Rahman deliberate to weigh in at 215 kilos Friday. Rahman had signed an agreement for a bout at 2 hundred kilos, and the announcement stated Paul changed into inclined to compromise to do the combat at 205 kilos. According to the announcement, Rahman’s camp stated its fighter could withdraw from the combat if the bout changed into now no longer at 215 kilos.
“MVP and Jake Paul will now no longer praise a person that has carried out themselves in this sort of deceiving and calculated manner,” the announcement stated. “Therefore, MVP is left without a desire however to cancel the August sixth occasion. These compelled final results affect Jake Paul, Amanda Serrano, and each different fighter in this card who’ve educated tirelessly during the last few months for this occasion. The boxing network needs to preserve Hasim Rahman Jr. answerable for his loss of professionalism.”
Serrano, one of the pinnacle women’s warring parties withinside the world, changed into scheduled to combat Brenda Carabajal withinside the co-principal occasion.
In an Instagram video early Sunday morning, Rahman stated signing the agreement for 2 hundred kilos in early July however stated his body “virtually could now no longer permit me to do it,” relating to making the burden. Rahman was puzzled why Paul’s group changed into canceling the combat now and now no longer ready to offer him extra time to get his weight all of the manners down. He stated he could combat Paul for the $5,000 minimum, because “it is how a good deal religion I had in me knocking him out.”
Rahman stated he sparred with Paul in 2020 at the same time as he changed into heavier, and Paul has admitted that Rahman received the one’s sessions. Rahman stated Paul needs him to be a “shell” of himself withinside the ring.
“If you beat me up at the same time as I changed into 230, what is the trouble preventing me at 215?” Rahman stated. “What’s the trouble preventing me at 210? It’s truly them now no longer trying to combat. It’s now no longer me pulling out of the combat.”
The Paul-Rahman bout changed into prepare in early July whilst Tommy Fury withdrew because of journey issues.
According to the MVP announcement, Rahman signed a settlement on July 6 to combat at 2 hundred kilos. At that time, Rahman supplied proof of his weight to MVP and the New York State Athletic Commission that he would not be dropping extra than 10% of his weight between then and the bout. Rahman, a heavyweight, ultimately fought at 224 kilos in April and has weighed as a good deal as 269 kilos as a pro.
On July 7, in step with MVP, Rahman weighed 216 kilos, and he and his group had supplied assurances that he changed into on course to make the burden. In interviews with ESPN during the last weeks, Rahman and his father, Hasim, each expressed self-assurance that making the burden could now no longer be a trouble.
MVP’s announcement stated Rahman supplied a signed announcement from a nutritionist that his weight changed into progressing, according to NYSAC rules, which protected weekly weight checks.
“In the ultimate forty-eight hours, it has to turn out to be clear that those assurances had been now no longer made in properly religion,” MVP’s announcement read.
MVP’s announcement stated that during an NYSAC weight test Friday, Rahman had misplaced much less than one pound considering the fact that signing for the bout. The commission, MVP stated, declared it would not sanction the combat at much less than 205 kilos, which Paul changed into inclined to conform to. A new agreement changed into despatched to Rahman’s group, in step with MVP, with the burden alteration and implementing strict consequences if Rahman ignored the burden.
“Upon receiving this new agreement Saturday morning, Rahman’s camp indicated for the first actual time that he deliberate to weigh 215 lbs. on the professional weigh-in and could now no longer conform to weigh-in at 205 kilos and informing Most Valuable Promotions that they’re pulling out of the combat except the combat changed into agreed to at 215 kilos,” the announcement read.
A request for remark to the NYSAC on Saturday night time changed into now no longer without delay returned.
