Hasim Rahman Jr has admitted his coach altered the scales in a video sent to Jake Paul to prove he was on track to make weight.
Rahman Jr was set to face Paul at Madison Square Garden this weekend, but the YouTube star cancelled the fight while accusing his opponent of failing to meet their contracted weight limit. A video later emerged, sent 30 days before the fight, of Rahman Jr stepping on the scales at 216lb which cast doubts on his claim that he was struggling to meet the target weight.
This was leaked by Paul's team after Rahman Jr claimed he was struggling to lose weight but was ready to make a newly agreed 205lb limit on Friday. However the heavyweight star has now admitted he used a screwdriver to fool Paul during the video. "I want everyone to go watch that video that Jake [Paul] and BJ [Flores] is tweeting," Rahman Jr discussed when hosting a Twitter Spaces on his social media account.
