Greg Hardy Misses Weight By 26 Pounds in Belgrade

greg hardy missed weight by 26 pounds for his heavyweight fight against Darko Stosic, showing up at 291 pounds for a bout set for Saturday in Belgrade, Serbia. Stosic weighed in at 240 pounds and still agreed to take the fight.

Hardy at 291 pounds

The number is the story here. Hardy came in 26 pounds heavy, which left the matchup with a 52-pound weight difference on the scale for a heavyweight fight at a Fight Nation Championship event.

Hardy explained the miss by saying, "It was a long trip. I missed a couple flights." The day before weigh-ins, he also posted on Instagram, "I made a way for other athletes to come. To combat sports seriously by cutting from 315 every fight no belly an sometimes abs lol can we please return the favor to us giants and make a 285 division ????"

Darko Stosic accepts

Stosic’s decision to stay in the bout keeps the fight on the card despite the scale gap. In a heavyweight pairing, a 52-pound difference changes the terms of the night before either man throws a punch, and Hardy now carries the added pressure of arriving well over the limit.

Hardy enters at 8-5 in MMA and won his last bout against Phillip Latu by unanimous decision. Before turning to mixed martial arts, he played in the NFL, and his past has followed him outside the cage as well; in 2014, he was arrested for assault and communicating threats, though the prosecutor’s office later dropped the charges after it could not locate the victim and had reliable information that the two parties had reached a civil settlement.

Fight Nation Championship

The fight still moves forward on Saturday in Belgrade, with Hardy’s missed mark now part of the buildup instead of the weighing ceremony. For Stosic, the choice was whether to keep the matchup intact despite a large weight gap; he did, and that leaves the event with a heavyweight fight that looks very different from a standard one on one scale reading.