July 31, (THEWILL) – Due to a weight-related issue, Hasim Rahman Jr.’s fight with Jake Paul, scheduled for next week, has been postponed, according to Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions.
Rahman’s promoter Greg Cohen explained that Rahman was having trouble dropping to 200 pounds, the weight at which the two were supposed to fight. To keep from disrupting the fight schedule, the fight weight was changed to 204 pounds.
Paul even volunteered to fight at 205 pounds, but Rahman still found it difficult to get his weight loss programme to match this requirement, with his weight still at 214 pounds.
Paul was understandably not pleased with the postponement, taking to Twitter to say: “First Tommy [Fury] Fumbled and now Hasim Rahman Crumbled. These boxers are the most difficult people to work with and continually lack professionalism and confidence to fight me. I apologize to all of the other fighters on the card, our partners, our team and the fans.”
Paul also edited his Twitter bio, which now reads: “Hasim Rahman Jr and Tommy Fury were both too afraid to fight me and I’m not the ‘real boxer’… lololol.”
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