{"id":349820,"date":"2023-11-28T02:38:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=349820"},"modified":"2023-11-28T06:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T06:01:45","slug":"zerafa-torches-delusional-rivals-rematch-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=349820","title":{"rendered":"Zerafa torches 'delusional' rival's rematch claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Zerafa<\/a> has laughed off Issac Hardman\ufeff's<\/a> desire to exact revenge on the Victorian, following his two-round demolition of the Queensland fighter in 2022.<\/p>\n

Hardman, who has a 2-1 record since his loss to Zerafa, going down to Ryan Murdock before\ufeff claiming TKO wins over Kazuki Kyohara and Troy Coleman, says being labelled a racist in the lead up by Zerafa has stayed with him, and he won't be satisfied until he gets back in the ring with Australia's top middleweight.<\/p>\n

Zerafa, now the WBA's mandatory challenger for the belt, is set to fight for a world title next year after remaining inactive in 2023. He beat Hardman easily by TKO in April 2022, finishing the Caboolture\ufeff brawler in less than two rounds.<\/p>\n

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\"Boxer<\/p>\n

He scoffed at the prospect of ever facing Hardman in the ring again.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"He's not going to get that fight again. He's got nothing to offer me," Zerafa told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"He says I'm inactive but as soon as I get back I'm still No.1 in the WBA and ranked in the WBC, WBO. Let him talk his talk he's giving me media. I'm living rent free in his head."<\/p>\n

Zerafa\ufeff believes the mere fact that Hardman has brought up a rematch after being dominated in such brutal fashion, can only mean one thing.<\/p>\n

"T\ufeffhe kid's delusional. If I fight him 10 times I beat him 11. I surely didn't hit him that hard to leave him punch drunk talking like that. I find it amusing," he said.<\/p>\n

"The fact that he says I dusted him in two rounds. He gives himself too much credit. Two rounds is six minutes, I dusted him in four. Don't get it twisted, don't say it was two rounds. He didn't even last that long.<\/p>\n

\"Isaac<\/p>\n

"He's not even the best middleweight in his gym, he's calling out everybody. I think Joel Camilleri beats him. I think Wade Ryan beats him. I think a lot of fighters beat him."<\/p>\n

\ufeffZerafa added: "Fighting guys ranked 1000th in the world it ain't even something to talk about.<\/p>\n

"He says he was 25 at the time and it was a year and a half ago. I was 30 at the time. And in that year and a half, he's lost again, to Murdock. And he thought he won the fight.<\/p>\n

"Every time I watch him my boxing IQ drops. When he talks I don't get him, when he boxes I don't get him. I don't understand anything he has to say.<\/p>\n

"I think he's an absolute joke. I tried to be nice with him and you know what I beat the respect out of ya. Skills pay the bills and he's just not on my level. He's not on a lot of fighter's levels."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Zerafa has laughed off Issac Hardman\ufeff's desire to exact revenge on the Victorian, following his two-round demolition of the Queensland fighter in 2022. Hardman, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349824,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349820\/revisions\/349824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/333019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}