By: Sean Crose
“What a choice!” says former WBO world featherweight champion Heather “The Warmth” Hardy. Certainly, Hardy shocked lots of people Thursday when she introduced a Might eleventh throwdown between herself and BKFC flyweight champion Christine Ferea. That’s proper, Hardy is coming into the realm of naked knuckle boxing. “Being a member of the boxing neighborhood,” she says, “the 2 sports activities don’t usually cross paths in one of the simplest ways. Everybody from the proprietor of Gleason’s Health club , to my boyfriend and my grandma begged me to not – to think about my well being, such a barbaric sport.”
Hardy ended up taking some sound recommendation from maybe as shut a relation as one may discover. “My mom instructed me to drop my knees in a spot of God and He’ll inform me what to do,” she says, “and inside 24 hours I got here to understand that boxing has performed nothing however open doorways and create alternatives for my little household.” Hardy has lengthy been referred to as one of many extra thrilling boxers within the enterprise, exuding a blood and guts angle that might make George Patton nod in approval.
Positive sufficient, the Brooklynite will now be going through no small problem when she solutions the opening bell at Connecticut’s Foxwood’s On line casino in Might. Not solely will Hardy be new to the naked knuckle battle enterprise, she’ll be going through an undefeated world titlist within the 13-0 Ferea. Not that Hardy is missing in confidence “I’ll enter this battle with Christine representing the self-discipline of boxing,” she says, “and present that abilities pay the payments.” The battle is already producing warmth (pardon the pun) on-line because of the easy truth it’s a really fascinating pairing of fight sport professionals.
“I’m grateful to Christine!,” Hardy exclaims. “Earlier this 12 months I reached out to her as a fellow champion to really feel round her group and see if she needed to make a match. I’ve school tuition this primary quarter, so I used to be searching for work and he or she delivered.” Now Hardy herself is aiming to ship this spring. Certainly, Hardy has fought her share of excessive degree competitors in her 28 battle profession. Other than profitable the WBO featherweight belt by advantage of besting the intensely recreation Shelly Vincent in 2018, Hardy has met such names as Iranda Torres and the legendary Amanda Serrano.
“There’s just one ‘queen of violence,’” says Hardy. “And she or he’s an 80s child from Brooklyn.”
