Hasim Rahman Jr. admits that he asked for more weight allowance, but to him, that isn’t the reason his boxing match with Jake Paul was canceled.
“My body simply would not let me do it,” Rahman Jr. said in an Instagram post hours after news broke that this Saturday’s entire event at Madison Square Garden was off. “It would not let me get down to 200 pounds, but where in boxing do you see them canceling fights a whole week in advance? I didn’t even get my last week to get down as low as I could. I told this man, ‘If penalties involved, keep the purse. Keep the purse. I’d fight you for the $5,000 minimum.’ That’s how much it means to me, and that’s how much faith I have in knocking him out.”
Rahman Jr. detailed his side of the story after Paul and Most Valuable Promotions went public with a press release and pair of videos that pointed at him as the reason for the cancellation. Rahman Jr. said while he asked for more weight allowance, Paul and his team set him up to fail – and then refused any sort of matchmaking supplementation.
