Hasim Rahman to fight in MMA

[paul750]

He is a very strong man and can punch. Those two qualities are a good start. If he doesn't learn some basic techniques it won't mean very much, though. I'm pretty sure Rahman is one of the physically strongest heavyweights if not the strongest one currently. I'd certainly put Rahman, Vitali Klitschko, and Oliver McCall up there in the same category. Shannon Briggs is massive, but I'm not sure about his physical strength.

I doubt Rahman is taking it seriously, but you never know.

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

From MMA's version of FailBlog, Fightlinker...

But this began one of the biggest follies in boxing this decade. One of the events MMA fans can point to smugly and rightfully say it’s one of the reasons boxing is being destroyed by MMA in America. Champion Vitali Klitschko was ordered to face him in spring/summer 2005, but out of nowhere claims his thigh hurts too bad to fight. So they reschedule the fight for June and everything looks good until at the last minute that punk ass Vitali said he changed his mind and his thigh still hurt. Okay, he gets one more month for his boo-boo to heal and suddenly he doctor announces Vitali can’t fight until he gets “corrective back surgery”. So then in November, when the fight is about to happen again, Vitali says he hurt his knee in training and has to pull out. If this was the UFC Dana would have shot Vitali with an uzi by now, but the WBC simply voted to award Rahman their title and Vitali temporarily retired.

So as you can see, you can’t blame the guy for wanting to get the hell out of the sport of boxing. But we have another problem with this story. According to his manager in an interview with Sherdog, Hasim’s MMA idol is…..Kimbo Slice. Yes, apparently Rahman saw one of Kimbo’s CBS fights and announced to his camp “I’d like to fight some of those guys.” And according to Gelke “one of those guys” includes (wait for it) BUTTERBEAN! Yes, an “MMA” superfight between Hasim Rahman and BUTTERBEAN. And people are calling Sylvia vs. Mercer an epic disaster waiting to happen. I’d rather get a handjob from Freddy Kruger than watch either of these fights, but at least you can point to the hilarity of Tim Sylvia getting KOed by a old ass boxer as a redeeming value.

But it gets worse. Not only has Rahman told everybody he doesn’t plan on leaving boxing entirely, he’s not even bothering to get his first MMA training lessons until he has a fight lined up. He admittedly has zero grappling experience, hasn’t thrown a kick since his days as a gangsta in Baltimore and is calling Kimbo his idol for getting in the game. But the sad thing is you know some ****** start up company is going to get swindled into paying him way more than he deserves for his first disasterous performance since he has a “name”. It’s what happens when wannabe MMA promoters are ******er than a lot of the fans. What happened to the good old days like in boxing when con artists were smart?

[joe90210]

fighting kimbo would be a great way to make some money since kimbo has a following but is still a tomato can

[FLYBOY]

I don't know about training MMA for 4 months, but he did say he was interested in making the transition to MMA in December 2007: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=3165552

But that was a long time ago, I don't know if he's still interested or not. But I do know he said this:



And he said this before he said he was interested in fighting in MMA.

no he was clearing up all the ****** rumours about him training for mma (mixed men and their anuses). he never even thought of going into mma lmao. lmao at u jerkoffs claiming he would go from making $20 million to $ 500,000.

[FLYBOY]

even if he did say it, he said it for publicity. come on we all know how floyd says ****** things just to keep himself in the news.

[Kakutogi-Gumi]

no he was clearing up all the ****** rumours about him training for mma (mixed men and their anuses). he never even thought of going into mma lmao. lmao at u jerkoffs claiming he would go from making $20 million to $ 500,000.

No one here has said anything about Mayweather competing in MMA. Someone heard rumours and they were debunked.

To be honest, if Mayweather is charging 20 mill a fight, he's pretty much showing everyone he's just a coward.

[-Swizzy-]

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content4359.html

Hasim Rahman vs 100th ranked MMA fighter... I take the MMA guy.

[Elemental Fist]

no he was clearing up all the ****** rumours about him training for mma (mixed men and their anuses). he never even thought of going into mma lmao. lmao at u jerkoffs claiming he would go from making $20 million to $ 500,000.

Seriously, what's your problem? I was just saying what I heard, which is something I myself dismissed as a publicity stunt. You're the one who came off as a jerkoff.

You have nothing to add but weak insults mixing grappling with anuses or whatever you can come up with. You're nothing but a fanboy, a poser who disgraces the community of the very same sport you support. You don't like MMA fine but don't go out hating on it and the fans just because you don't like it. I say the same thing to MMA fanboys who diss on Boxing.

[Bobby Shaw]

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content4359.html

RIP Hasim,he'l be badly beaten.

Has this guy been divorced?He seems to be so broke,he should be doing something else not boxing or other forms of fighting

[Boxing Bully]

He will get his ankle or arm broken for sure