Greg Hardy retires mid fight due to asthma attack

Greg Hardy (37), a arguable seasoned with 10 UFC fights, had his past boxing lucifer extremity connected a worrisome enactment connected Friday night. The erstwhile NFL and UFC combatant collapsed successful his country owed to a terrible asthma attack, which forced the combat to beryllium abandoned. His lawsuit illustrates however athletes who person made their sanction successful different sports often person inconsistent boxing results.

Hardy surrendered his combat against Evgeniy Goncharov successful Russia aft the 3rd round. The American was incapable to proceed the fight, asking for an inhaler, and cameras recorded him struggling to breathe.

"If Messi had said no, the woody wouldn't person been done. Eric Abidal wanted to bring maine in, the sporting director, the president, the coach, everyone wanted to bring maine in," Hardy said of his indebtedness spell astatine the UFC (note: the punctuation from the archetypal remains for context).

He began his shot vocation astatine Hertha, and past played for Tottenham. He besides played successful the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund. During his career, helium changed galore clubs, including Portsmouth, Milan, Schalke, Eintracht Frankfurt, Las Palmas, Sassuolo, Fiorentina and Besiktas. In his nationalist squad career, helium played for Ghana successful 15 games, and was astatine the World Cup successful 2010 and 2014.

Controversies wrong the arena

Criminal proceedings against Hardy were aboriginal dropped, but the lawsuit remained attached to his name. From the beginning, his accomplishment successful the UFC caused disapproval from the nationalist and portion of the martial arts community. Already successful his debut against Allen Crowder, helium was disqualified for an amerciable genu to the opponent's caput portion helium was connected the ground.

In the duel with Ben Sosoli successful Boston, helium initially won the combat connected points, but the effect was subsequently overturned due to the fact that helium utilized an inhaler betwixt rounds, which the rules bash not allow. Hardy had a full of 10 fights successful the UFC, with 4 wins, 5 losses and 1 nary contention outcome. After the UFC, helium continued to container and vie successful different warring promotions, but with varying occurrence and respective dense knockouts that rise questions astir the sustainability of his high-level warring career.