IBC explained and star-studded hit list revealed<\/a><\/p>\nWhile Hardman has long been famed in Australian boxing circles for his heavy hands and entertaining fight week antics \u2013 which included a wonderful feud with Michael Zerafa \u2013 the star IBC signing has nothing bad to say about his latest rival.<\/p>\n
In fact, the Queenslander revealed he and Towns have actually sparred rounds during a boxing career which saw Hardman go undefeated in his first dozen fights as a middleweight and become world ranked.<\/p>\n
Before that, Headsplitter also enjoyed a successful domestic MMA career, which saw him go undefeated through nine professional fights \u2013 winning three national titles.<\/p>\n
All of which now has the Queenslander convinced he can find a niche in brawling just like, say, American Mike Perry has risen up to become the undeniable face of Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC).<\/p>\n
Asked if he could see similarities between himself and Perry, who after being cut from the UFC, and then losing a boxing match to Jake Paul, has since risen up to become a bareknuckle king, Hardman replied: \u201cf***ing absolutely\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Aussie added that fighting with smaller gloves, inside a compressed cage, and over rounds of only two minutes, also greatly suited a fight style where \u201cI\u2019m coming at you full throttle\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause let\u2019s not beat around the bush,\u201d Hardman continued, \u201cI\u2019m not the type of boxer who is going to get on the jab for 10 rounds, move my head and so on.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo brawling for me, it\u2019s unreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m no scrub in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t be if you\u2019re being asked to spar with the likes of Caleb Plant and Shane Mosley Jnr.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut put me in a big ring and my opponents are moving, getting on the jab, being evasive.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when you\u2019re locked in a f***ing five by five cage with me? There\u2019s no f***ing running.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd with two minute rounds as well, I could go sink four pints of Guinness after weighing in and still punch some f***ers head in by fight night.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On Perry\u2019s rise in BKFC, Hardman continued: \u201cMike Perry had a good run in the UFC, had some great knockouts, but then he got cut and went to boxing, where was never the best, was beaten by Jake Paul and wouldn\u2019t even really be considered above a C Level.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut since moving across to bareknuckle, the guy has really found his niche.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just made for that sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, he isn\u2019t the tidiest boxer, but he doesn\u2019t need to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the c*** is made of granite.<\/p>\n
\u201cFighting bareknuckle, he\u2019s incredibly effective.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he wants Jake Paul in BKFC, he dominates him.\u201d<\/p>\n
And as for Friday night\u2019s rival Towns, who he has previously sparred?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what, he\u2019s got bigger balls than most blokes,\u201d Hardman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause once I said \u2018yes\u2019, it was only a couple of minutes later that Jordan messaged me on Instagram with the handshake emoji. Said \u2018see you November 28\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Laughs] If anything, I almost felt insulted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking \u2018hang on, this c*** thinks he\u2019s better than me off our sparring\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Jordan Towns, I honestly don\u2019t have a bad word to say about him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bloke rides Brahman bulls, does 100km ultramarathons, good on him. He\u2019s just not f***ing winning this fight\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So you ask Issac Hardman just how suited he is for Australia\u2019s newest sport of brawling? Especially with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-311599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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