Hasim Rahman Jr. hits back at Jake Paul\u2019s \u201cinternet cap\u201d following fight cancellation After Jake Paul blamed Hasim Rahman Jr\u2019s team for canceling their fight set for August 6, Rahman hit back claiming Jake\u2019s explanation of the situation was \u201cinternet cap\u201d. Late on July 30, Jake Paul\u2019s company Most Valuable Promotions announced the fight between Paul and Rahman Hasim Jr. would be canceled. There would be no new opponent, no reschedule, and ticket\/PPV purchasers would be refunded. Shortly thereafter, Paul would take to Twitter to post a video explaining his side of the situation. He claimed Hasim refused to lose the required to drop down to 205 pounds. Jake Paul, a cruiserweight, normally fights at around 190 pounds, while Rahman campaigns as a heavyweight at around 230 pounds. Paul claimed Rahman refused to fight unless the weight limit was bumped up to 215 pounds resulting in Rahman\u2019s team pulling out of the fight. But Hasim is telling a different story, blaming Paul for the fight being canceled, and accusing the problem child of being \u201ctoo scared\u201d to fight a real boxer. Rahman Jr claps back at Paul over fight cancellation After a flurry of tweets and retweets calling Jake Paul a \u201cfraud\u201d and denying that he was the one who backed out of the fight, Rahman posted a two-part video explaining the situation. \u201cLet me go ahead and kill all of this internet cap Jake Paul has going on for you all,\u201d Hasim began. He stated that he had signed the contract to cut his weight down to 200 pounds within the 3 1\/2 week period before the fight, but claimed his body wouldn\u2019t let him get below 215 within that time frame. Note that Rahman was meant to lose 30+ pounds over the course of three weeks. He continued, \u201cWhere in boxing do you see them canceling fights a whole week in advance? I didn\u2019t even get my last week to get down as low as I could.\u201d He also mentioned in a tweet that he didn\u2019t get the chance to weigh in on August 5 which was stipulated in his contract. \u201cThere\u2019s penalties involved. Keep the purse. I\u2019ll fight [Paul] for the $5,000 minimum. That\u2019s how much this means to me,\u201d Rahman Jr. stated. He went on to call out Jake Paul who often claims he bodied Rahman Jr. while sparing. \u201cIf you beat me up while I was 230 pounds, what\u2019s the problem with fighting me while I\u2019m at 215?\u201d Rahman Jr. denied having backed out of the fight and claimed Jake Paul\u2019s team was the ones who didn\u2019t want to fight. \u201cThe only thing I can conclude is that they\u2019re scared,\u201d stated Rahman Jr. He backed this up with the fact that his team had another boxer in place if he couldn\u2019t get down to 200-205. \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t able to make that weight, they knew that we had a replacement on the side the whole time. He\u2019s been everything I\u2019ve been doing. The Muslim boxer Muhsin Cason.\u201d Cason, a 10-0 professional boxer, campaigns at cruiserweight which is the same weight class as Jake Paul. However, Rahman Jr. claims Paul backed out because he doesn\u2019t want to fight a real fighter that he can\u2019t drain. Fans are taking sides as Paul and Rahman defend their camps. Many of them believe Rahman shouldn\u2019t have signed the contract if he knew he couldn\u2019t cut the weight. Interesting enough, in an interview that took place two weeks ago, professional boxer Shawn Porter predicted that Rahman wouldn\u2019t be able to make the cut and that Paul\u2019s team would cancel the fight while placing all of the blame on Hasim\u2019s team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hasim Rahman Jr. hits back at Jake Paul\u2019s \u201cinternet cap\u201d following fight cancellation After Jake Paul blamed Hasim Rahman Jr\u2019s team for canceling their fight set for August 6, Rahman hit back claiming Jake\u2019s explanation of the situation was \u201cinternet cap\u201d. Late on July 30, Jake Paul\u2019s company Most Valuable Promotions announced the fight between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}