{"id":19008,"date":"2022-07-19T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hashim-rahman-jr-jake-paul-team-used-shady-trick-behind-scenes-bullied-me-into-taking-fight\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:03:50","slug":"hashim-rahman-jr-jake-paul-team-used-shady-trick-behind-scenes-bullied-me-into-taking-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hashim-rahman-jr-jake-paul-team-used-shady-trick-behind-scenes-bullied-me-into-taking-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashim Rahman Jr.: Jake Paul team used &#8216;shady&#8217; trick behind scenes, bullied me into taking fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"W5iQHi\">Hasim Rahman Jr.  accused Team Jake Paul of using underhanded tactics \u2013 and outright bullying \u2013 to get him to sign for their Aug.  6 pay-per-view headliners at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p id=\"DQP2uH\">On Monday&#8217;s edition of <em>The MMA Hour<\/em>, Rahman Jr.  said Paul&#8217;s team mislead him by making it seem like there was interest in hiring him again as a sparring partner.  After Rahman revealed information about his weight and training, he said Team Paul offered a take-it-or-leave it fight with Paul.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XEHzRR\">\u201cIt was a little shady,\u201d Rahman Jr.  said.  \u201cHis coach called me, and he&#8217;s asking me how much I weigh, how I&#8217;m feeling about my last fight, what I&#8217;ve been doing in the gym, how much I&#8217;ve been sparring &#8230; but he was asking me Under the pretense that I would come in and spar Jake as a southpaw for the Anderson Silva [fight].<\/p>\n<p id=\"kqGhWt\">\u201cI&#8217;m thinking they&#8217;re about to call me back and get me on a flight to Puerto Rico to help them out for Anderson.  An hour later, I get a call saying they want to fight.  So all those questions were really trying to line me up to fight me.  It was never a sparring situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"st2sF9\">Rahman Jr., the son of former heavyweight boxing champ Hasim Rahman, weighed his options and immediately saw the opportunity in facing Paul, a two-time sparring partner and a popular target among experienced boxers who want to \u201cexpose\u201d the social media star turned pugilist  He said he nevertheless asked for a few hours to weigh his options \u2013 and instead was given an ultimatum. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=VMP9823823075\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"OOJ0Po\">\u201cNo, you have to respond within 45 minutes, before the top of the hour, or the offer&#8217;s off, and you&#8217;ll never get the opportunity to fight Jake Paul again,\u201d he said of Team Paul&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<p id=\"vrmnW2\">Rahman Jr., who is 12-1 in the ring, conceded the money to fight Paul on Aug.  6 was more than he&#8217;d ever made in professional boxing.  But it also came with some hefty strings attached around his weight. <\/p>\n<p id=\"9KKcMe\">The 31-year-old boxer said the contract demands 25 percent of his purse for every pound he is over.  Save for a four-ounce allowance on the 200 pounds he is required to make at the official weigh-ins and a 214-pound limit at noon on fight night, he said a four-pound overage could leave him making only $5,000.  (He did not specify whether he is also entitled to a \u201cwin\u201d bonus or any other type of compensation.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"S9UEtO\">\u201cThey are that scared that they want to put that much pressure on me to make the weight to say you&#8217;re going to lose 25 percent for every pound you&#8217;re over,\u201d Rahman Jr.  said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Q6VPQ4\">Paul&#8217;s Most Valuable Promotions co-founder, Nakisa Bidarian, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Rahman Jr.&#8217;s claim. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Nm4ooj\">Rahman Jr.  thought the sparring partner gambit was a \u201cdirty move,\u201d but he added \u201cyou can&#8217;t put anything past anybody in this business.\u201d  He said he planned to expose other dishonest practices at the press conference for their fight before the gathering was ended early. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Q9oiHb\">Of the sparring session Paul released that put Rahman Jr.  in an unflattering light, the boxer said he was only trying to give the YouTuber some good advice before it became clear he was being set up to look bad.<\/p>\n<p id=\"RD1RVk\">\u201cI was going to tell him, &#8216;In boxing, this don&#8217;t count \u2013 the sparring don&#8217;t count,&#8217;\u201d Rahman Jr.  said.  \u201cBut to Jake, sparring is like a fight, because obviously he has no amateur experience.  So if he&#8217;s doing well against a professional, he&#8217;s thinking, &#8216;Oh, I can really do this, I can really do this to a guy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p id=\"i32ZS5\">\u201cI was just trying to humble him a little bit and tell him, I&#8217;m in here handicapped a bit.  &#8230; I knew he was going to chop it up the way he did &#8211; that&#8217;s what you see where I was upset in the video, like, &#8216;No, you being disrespectful now.&#8217;  It had nothing to do with the actual boxing, the sparring session.  It was just his disrespect for the sport and for what we were doing. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Vo89wY\">\u201cI came to give you a look.  I didn&#8217;t come to beat you up, or to see if you were even on my level, or you were ready for this level.  I was actually asked by your coaches no to knock you out.  I was told that if you knock him out, you&#8217;re most likely not going to get paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"STaAM7\">Before things went south, Rahman Jr.  gave Paul credit as a tough guy making an honest run in boxing.  Others, he said, quickly bowed out after their first punch to the mouth, but the influencer took his licks and kept coming. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Puxrvy\">Now, seeing the other side of a Jake Paul negotiation, Rahman Jr.  is intent on humbling his opponent the old-fashioned way.  In sparring, he rarely used his left hand and spent 30 seconds of the final round in southpaw stance \u2013 at the request of Paul&#8217;s coaches, whom he said pleaded \u201che&#8217;s an a******, he&#8217;s going to this \u2013 just don&#8217;t knock him out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"Sq0Lxz\">\u201cI&#8217;m going to hit him as hard as I can hit him, and I&#8217;m going to hit him with both my hands,\u201d Rahman Jr.  \u201cI think he&#8217;s bit off more than he can chew.  &#8230; I just use everything against me as motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasim Rahman Jr. accused Team Jake Paul of using underhanded tactics \u2013 and outright bullying \u2013 to get him to sign for their Aug. 6 pay-per-view headliners at Madison Square Garden. 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