{"id":701791,"date":"2026-05-29T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701791\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:18:08","slug":"video-ufc-veteran-disgraced-nfl-star-greg-hardy-misses-weight-by-over-25-pounds-for-fnc-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701791\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: UFC veteran, disgraced NFL star Greg Hardy misses weight by over 25 pounds for FNC 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/3\/12\/22974508\/former-nfl-star-greg-hardy-has-parted-ways-with-ufc-what-a-run-far-from-done-mma-espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former UFC fighter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2016\/10\/12\/13255750\/choose-another-sport-jay-glazer-calls-fellow-mma-coaches-blackball-greg-hardy-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disgraced NFL star<\/a> Greg Hardy is scheduled to compete in the Fight Nation Championship (FNC) 31 co-main event against fellow Octagon veteran Darko Stosic on Sat. (May 30) at Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hardy, 37, tipped the scale at 292 pounds, 26 pounds over the heavyweight limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stosic, 34, weighed in at 239.6 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cExceeding the weight limit by 12 kilograms shows a serious lack of discipline and respect for the opponent, organization and fans,\u201d Stosic said after the weigh ins (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmarocks.pl\/fnc\/kuriozalna-sytuacja-przed-fnc-31-greg-hardy-przekroczyl-limit-wagi-ciezkiej-o-12-kilogramow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Rocks<\/a>). \u201cThe fight could have been canceled, but it\u2019s not my style. I did my part of the job professionally as always. Regardless of the circumstances, my goal remains the same \u2014 to enter the cage prepared and give the maximum of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hardy (8-5, 1 NC) is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Phillip Latu at Peak Fighting 50 back in January. As for Stosic (22-8), who already has three fights under the FNC banner, he stopped UFC veteran Oli Thompson at FNC 27 last February in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC fighter and disgraced NFL star Greg Hardy is scheduled to compete in the Fight Nation Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,50911,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-701791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-international-mma-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}