Heather Hardy has dust up with former boxing opponent at Bellator 185 weigh ins

Bellator’s upcoming MMA event had a bit of a party crasher when Shelly Vincent, who fought Hardy for the WBC International Female Featherweight title last year, showed up at the weigh ins.

Is Bellator building a future grudge match for one of their prospective stars? The promotion has put some serious push behind former WBC boxing champion Heather Hardy, who made her MMA debut this last June with a TKO win over Alice Yauger. The 35-year-old only started her professional combat sports career back in 2012, but went 20-0 (1 NC) as a boxer before making the jump to mixed martial arts.

This Friday, October 20th, Hardy has grabbed a main-card slot on Bellator 185, which airs on Spike from the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. There she’ll take on relative unknown Kristina Williams in Williams pro MMA debut. Very likely the bout is expected to provide a big stage for Hardy to get an exciting win. And if she does so, it seems like Bellator may have another fight ready for her.

A former boxing opponent of Hardy’s, Shelly Vincent (20-1), crashed the Bellator 185 weigh ins on Thursday, and offered up a cryptic message on social media after quickly being escorted away by security.

“You can fool the public but those of us on the inside know the real deal,” Vincent wrote on Instagram.

Hardy is the lone loss on Vincent’s record, a majority decision in 2016. And the two have a history on not liking one another that stretches back even before that bout.

“I feel like (Hardy)’s everything that’s wrong with women’s boxing,” Vincent told The Ring Magazine in a 2016 interview in the build up to their fight.

“She’s a way better fighter than she was a few years ago but she’s not what they say she is. They built her up. I watched people get robbed by her. I might bring some cops up to prepare for a robbery.”

That feels like exactly the kind of heat Bellator would like to bring to a fighter they seem prepared to position as a name talent for the promotion. Although, there don’t appear to be any immediate suggestions from Vincent that she’s looking to jump to an MMA career. Perhaps this will be more like the Justin McCully/Tito Ortiz weirdness that never really went anywhere beyond MMA meme history.

Bellator 185 will be headlined by a middleweight bout between Gegard Mousasi and Alexander Shlemenko, with Neiman Gracie facing Zak Bucia in the co-main event.

Bellator’s upcoming MMA event had a bit of a party crasher when Shelly Vincent, who fought Hardy for the WBC International Female Featherweight title last year, showed up at the weigh ins.

Is Bellator building a future grudge match for one of their prospective stars? The promotion has put some serious push behind former WBC boxing champion Heather Hardy, who made her MMA debut this last June with a TKO win over Alice Yauger. The 35-year-old only started her professional combat sports career back in 2012, but went 20-0 (1 NC) as a boxer before making the jump to mixed martial arts.

This Friday, October 20th, Hardy has grabbed a main-card slot on Bellator 185, which airs on Spike from the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. There she’ll take on relative unknown Kristina Williams in Williams pro MMA debut. Very likely the bout is expected to provide a big stage for Hardy to get an exciting win. And if she does so, it seems like Bellator may have another fight ready for her.

A former boxing opponent of Hardy’s, Shelly Vincent (20-1), crashed the Bellator 185 weigh ins on Thursday, and offered up a cryptic message on social media after quickly being escorted away by security.

“You can fool the public but those of us on the inside know the real deal,” Vincent wrote on Instagram.

Hardy is the lone loss on Vincent’s record, a majority decision in 2016. And the two have a history on not liking one another that stretches back even before that bout.

“I feel like (Hardy)’s everything that’s wrong with women’s boxing,” Vincent told The Ring Magazine in a 2016 interview in the build up to their fight.

“She’s a way better fighter than she was a few years ago but she’s not what they say she is. They built her up. I watched people get robbed by her. I might bring some cops up to prepare for a robbery.”

That feels like exactly the kind of heat Bellator would like to bring to a fighter they seem prepared to position as a name talent for the promotion. Although, there don’t appear to be any immediate suggestions from Vincent that she’s looking to jump to an MMA career. Perhaps this will be more like the Justin McCully/Tito Ortiz weirdness that never really went anywhere beyond MMA meme history.

Bellator 185 will be headlined by a middleweight bout between Gegard Mousasi and Alexander Shlemenko, with Neiman Gracie facing Zak Bucia in the co-main event.