By: Sean Crose
“I’m closing out my career,” former WBO featherweight titlist Heather Hardy tells me over the phone. “I really wanted to make the most of my last year of fighting.” Hardy, who has been at the forefront of women’s boxing for a decade now, is certainly finding new worlds for herself to conquer. For this May the Brooklynite will be making her debut with the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) . Her opponent? None other than undefeated flyweight champion Christine Ferea. “I reached out to Christine,” Hardy continues. “She’s always been really supportive throughout my career.” Ferea is also about as big a BKFC challenge as Hardy is apt to find. Not that she minds.
“I definitely picked up the toughest one of the bunch for a reason,” Hardy admits. “I’m looking for where the money fights are.” As Hardy says: “When it comes to fighting, it comes to earning.” And…
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