Heather Hardy is out of her BKFC 61 headlining bout with Christine Ferea, however that seems to be the least of her considerations.
Hardy on Monday shared a troubling well being outlook in a grim Instagram submit as the previous boxing champion revealed “an excessive amount of mind injury” from preventing has severely impacted her imaginative and prescient. Hardy had been set to make her BKFC debut and problem Ferea for the promotion’s girls’s flyweight championship this Saturday.
Hardy mentioned she skilled blurred imaginative and prescient a number of days after her title-fight loss to Amanda Serrano final August. On the time, Hardy figured she simply wanted day without work to get well correctly, six to eight months.
Hardy mentioned monetary woes pushed her to simply accept a proposal from BKFC and after a month into coaching for Ferea, “the whole lot bought worse with my sight.”
“I used to be right down to 123 kilos as a result of I couldn’t eat, I wasn’t sleeping, I used to be so weak,” Hardy wrote on Instagram. “I hadn’t advised anybody how unhealthy it was, not my boyfriend, not my coaches. I assumed I may make it by means of the 10-minute combat, however after a really mild sparring session, I couldn’t see sh*t for 2 days. I didn’t eat or sleep Friday to Monday, and I knew I used to be too weak to do that sh*t. After lastly seeing a health care provider, he mentioned I’ve had too many concussions.
“When you might have a concussion, a bit of your mind dies and also you by no means get it again. Think about that? In 10 years, I’ve had an excessive amount of mind injury. I can’t get anymore, or else I gained’t be capable to see. No operating, no jogging, no leaping rope, and no getting hit within the head.”
Hardy didn’t outright announce that her fight sports activities profession is over however indicated it was with these 5 phrases to conclude her submit: “ya know what meaning.”
Hardy, 42, made her skilled boxing debut in August 2012 and remained unbeaten by means of her first 23 fights as she gained WBC and WBO featherweight titles. Whereas nonetheless on the peak of her boxing profession, Hardy tried her hand at blended martial arts, going 2-2 in 4 fights with Bellator from 2017 to 2019.
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