Ex-NFL star Greg Hardy dealt another brutal knockout in boxing match
Greg Hardy had a rough night Friday.
The former NFL defensive end turned boxer was brutally knocked out in the 17th round of Team Combat League.
Alexander Flores delivered the blow at Hardy’s expense.
The end of Hardy’s football career was mired in controversy. He was accused of domestic violence and was arrested for cocaine possession. He last played football during the 2015 season for the Dallas Cowboys.
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Since then, Hardy has pursued a career in boxing.
He signed a UFC contract in 2018, which has since expired.
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The 34-year-old’s Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship debut in February ended with a brutal knockout.
“Win some you lose some,” Hardy wrote on Instagram following this week’s knockout. “I got sloppy looking for a knockout.
“Forgot to fight my fight and paid the price against a good boxer. More to learn.”
Hardy fell to the ground during the early portion of the 17th round after his opponent’s left hand appeared to make contact with the former All-Pro defender.
At one point, Hardy attempted to gain the advantage, but he was backed up against the ropes. Shortly after Flores had Hardy on the ropes he landed the knockout punch.
Hardy was a sixth-round draft pick in 2010 and spent five seasons with the Carolina Panthers.
He was named to the Pro Bowl in 2013 after he racked up 15 sacks. Several disturbing pictures were released following Hardy’s alleged assault of his ex-girlfriend in 2014.
Hardy later filed an appeal, and the charges were dismissed because the accuser did not show up for a hearing. Hardy finished his NFL career with 40 sacks.
Casey DeSantis sports ‘Where Woke Goes to Die’ jacket at Iowa GOP event
Casey DeSantis’ black leather jacket was emblazoned with “Where woke goes to die” and an outline of Florida and an alligator on its back.
Fiery small plane crash kills 2 people in Mississippi: video
Two people were killed in a small plane crash Saturday morning at a Mississippi airport, the Tupelo Regional Airport confirmed to Fox News Digital.
The plane crashed shortly after taking off, banking sharply before coming down near hangars at the airport and catching fire.
The pilot and a local doctor were killed in the crash around 8 a.m., WTVA-TV reported, adding the plane almost crashed into the Army Aviation Support Facility.
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Video taken of the crash shows first responders dousing the flames.
Authorities have not released the names of the dead or a possible cause for the crash.
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The FAA and the NTSB plan investigate the crash, officials said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Wedding dress insult: Woman asks Reddit users to weigh in after she bluntly critiqued her friend’s gown
Reddit users were divided about whether a woman was right to share an honest opinion of her friend’s unusual wedding dress.
In a June 3 post on Reddit’s “Am I the A–hole” (AITA) subreddit — titled “AITA for telling my friend that I didn’t like her wedding dress?” — redditor zzz_Macaroon_7983 asked people to weigh in about how she gave her honest opinion.
The user explained that three months ago, she attended her friend’s wedding, “a destination wedding at a beach venue.”
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“When she arrived, she was wearing a poofy bright red dress, the kind you’ll see celebrities wearing at the Met Gala,” wrote the woman.
While the dress was “very unique and she stood out beautifully,” zzz_Macaroon_7983 also did not think the dress flattered the bride or the venue.
“I personally didn’t like it, but I wasn’t going to be the person to tell her that on her wedding day and ruin the night for her,” she said.
The Reddit writer explained that she kept her opinion to herself and did not share her thoughts on the dress with anyone else.
“It isn’t my place to tell her what she shouldn’t have worn,” she said.
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Yet that changed on Friday, when the bride herself pressed zzz_Macaroon_7983 for her opinion.
“Yesterday, [the bride] came to my house to watch a movie with me,” she wrote.
“Before we started watching, she talked about how her parents told her that her wedding dress didn’t look good and that she should’ve worn a white simple dress (they are a very traditional type),” wrote zzz_Macaroon_7983.
It was later explained that the bride wore red as it is customary in the groom’s culture that brides wear red clothing.
The bride then asked the friend what she “honestly thought about her wedding dress.”
The woman on Reddit shared with others that she initially tried to dodge the question — telling her friend that “she stood out and looked confident.”
“But then she asked me, ‘I didn’t ask you if I looked confident or unique, I asked you what you thought about the dress,'” she wrote.
“I didn’t want to lie to her,” said the woman on Reddit, “since we’ve always had a very blunt relationship. She’s always told me the blunt truth, but keeping in mind that it was obviously a really big day for her, I tried to be kind and sensitive about my honest opinion,” she added.
So, she was honest — perhaps too much so.
“I told her that while I thought that the dress made her stand out amazingly and it was very unique, in my personal opinion, I wasn’t very fond of it and that it did not flatter her,” she said.
This did not go over well.
The friend “was quiet for a second and then she got up and left.”
Added the woman on Reddit, “I tried messaging her, but I got no response.”
The woman’s husband as well as a best friend then reached out to zzz_Macaroon_7983, telling her that she was out of line for what she said.
“One of her best friends sent me a long message about how while he agrees with me, I didn’t have to tell her that because it isn’t our place and that I came across as jealous and pathetic,” she said.
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“I don’t know what to do or say, and I’m having trouble even contemplating whether I was wrong, so what do you think — AITA?” she asked on the social media platform.
On the AITA subreddit, people can reply to posts and indicate the poster is “NTA” (“Not the A–hole”), “YTA” (“You’re the A–hole”), “NAH” (“No A–holes Here”) or “ESH” (“Everyone Sucks Here”).
Users can “upvote” responses they think are helpful and “downvote” ones that are not.
Fox News Digital reached out to zzz_Macaroon_7983 for comment or any updates.
The top responses on the site contained a mix of opinions, especially after zzz_Macaroon_7983 added that she initially tried to skirt the question when her asked her what she thought.
“She’s not going to wear it again, so it’s not as if you did her a service to stop her embarrassing herself in the future. You have [spoiled] the memory of how amazing she felt, though. Well done,” said Reddit user WinOk2110, who added “YTA.”
Other disagreed, saying that the bride should not have asked if she did not want to hear the answer.
“I’m sick of the fact that women are infantilized all the time (I am a woman),” wrote a Redditor by the username “Betzschaba.”
“If someone asks for an honest opinion, they have to be prepared to receive an honest opinion and not have a tantrum about it,” this person wrote.
A handful of users rated the story as “NAH.”
“Before the wedding, your honesty would have been constructive criticism, but after the fact, it just becomes an insult,” said a person with the username “throwtruerateme.”
“I don’t think you meant to harm your friend but a lesson here: Brutal honesty doesn’t have to mean sharing your very worst thoughts,” this person also said.
“You could have just as easily and truthfully said, ‘You created a stunning moment and were positively glowing in that dress!’ NAH,” the user added.
While some posts in the subreddit are tagged with “Not the A–hole” or “A–hole” by Reddit when a clear decision has been determined by users — this one was not.
Still, zzz_Macaroon_7983 concluded that she was the one in the wrong.
In an update to the post, she wrote that she “didn’t really think it through many times in my head and just said what I was truthfully feeling.”
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She added, “And I understand how wrong it was, especially since it was about something she now couldn’t change.”
The friendship might have been saved, too: The woman on Reddit wrote that she would be meeting up with her friend and would apologize for what she said.
“If she felt amazing and confident in it, then that was the perfect dress for her,” she said.
DeSantis suggests Trump doesn’t understand the ‘woke’ threat to America
The current top two contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are trading verbal fire over the term “woke.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters on Saturday that “woke is an existential threat to our society.”
DeSantis, greeting Republican activists at a major GOP 2024 presidential cattle call in Iowa, the state whose caucuses lead off the Republican White House nominating calendar, was asked about comments former President Donald Trump made two days earlier.
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“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke, woke, woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” the former president said on Thursday during remarks at the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa.
Asked about Trump’s comments, the Florida governor said Saturday that “to say it’s not a big deal, that just shows you don’t understand what a lot of these issues are right now.”
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Trump, who launched his third straight White House campaign last November, is the current commanding front-runner in the polls.
DeSantis, who’s seen his stature with conservatives across the country soar in recent years in part due to his culture wars battles against some major corporations, school unions, and the media. He often touts that Florida “is where woke goes to die.”
The governor is solidly in second place in the GOP nomination polls, far behind Trump but well ahead of the rest of the field of actual and potential contenders.
DeSantis at the Iowa State Fairgrounds at Sen. Joni Ernst’s Roast and Ride. The annual motorcycle ride, which benefits veterans, this year attracted all of the declared Republican presidential candidates except Trump.
Chinese warship comes within yards of US destroyer in latest act of aggression in Taiwan Strait: report
A Chinese warship reportedly came within 150 yards of hitting the USS Chung-Hoon on Saturday while the U.S. aircraft carrier was conducting joint exercises with Canada in the Taiwan Strait.
The incident occurred as U.S.-Chinese tensions remain high in the South China Sea.
The Chinese ship sped up and cut in front of USS Chung-Hoon’s bow, warning the U.S. ship that there would be a collision if it didn’t alter course, Canada’s Global News — whose reporters witnessed the near-miss from the HMCS Montreal — reported.
The U.S. told the Chinese ship to stay away from the destroyer and at the last moment the Chinese altered course. The Chung-Hoon was also reportedly forced to slow down and alter course over the close call.
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HMCS Montreal Commander Paul Mountford called the incident “not professional” on the part of the Chinese, saying it was “clearly instigated by the Chinese,” according to Global News.
“The fact this was announced over the radio prior to doing it, clearly indicated this was intentional,” he added.
He continued, “I am hoping that is an isolated incident that won’t happen again for us, because we have international law on our side. This is international waters.”
The Chinese had warned the U.S. and Canadian ships they were in Chinese territorial waters, despite the strait being recognized as international waters, Mountford said.
Chinese vessels had been shadowing the joint U.S.-Canadian exercises for the last week before they entered the Taiwan Strait, the outlet reported.
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Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said, “Canada will continue to sail where international law allows, including the Strait, the South China Sea,” according to Global News.
She added, “Our overall goal is to increase the peace and stability of this region. And that’s why we are going to continue to see more of Canada in this region as set out in our Indo-Pacific strategy. We’ve already seen unsafe intercepts, and we have addressed those appropriately with China in terms of our RCAF pilots. Actors in this region must engage responsibly, and that’s the bottom line.”
Anand just participated in a security summit in Singapore that was also attended by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu.
Late last month, the Chinese government threatened “serious consequences” against the U.S. after it sailed through the contested Paracel Islands, which it claims sovereignty over.
And it also disregarded Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and by deploying a research ship along with five escort vessels last month to an area where a Russian state firm jointly operates a gas block with Hanoi in the energy rich South China Sea.
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Fox News has reached out to the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon.
Vanderbilt baseball player manages to break aluminum bat in bizarre plate appearance
Vanderbilt Commodores outfielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. stepped to the plate for what ended up being a very unusual at-bat.
When Bradfield hit a 2-2 pitch into right field during the seventh inning of Vanderbilt’s opening game of the NCAA Tournament Nashville Regional against Eastern Illinois, he somehow managed to break his bat — his aluminum bat.
Despite Bradfield hitting the ball off the barrel end of the bat, the bat broke near the handle.
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Eastern Illinois outfielder Logan Eickhoff made a diving catch to retire Bradfield for the first out of the inning.
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Bradfield hit a double earlier in the game. The Commodores scored six in the third inning and cruised to a 12-2 win.
It did not appear Bradfield was jammed on the pitch, the broadcasters noted.
Pitcher Devin Futrell started for Vanderbilt and finished the game with one earned run over five innings.
The win advanced the Commodores to a matchup with the Oregon Ducks Saturday night.
Elon Musk supports family punished for speaking out against biological male using girls’ locker room
Elon Musk voiced support for a Vermont family that was punished by a local school for expressing concerns about a biological male using the daughter’s locker room.
White Sox win on walk-off with unexpected help from umpire
The Chicago White Sox got help from an unlikely source for a walk-off victory Saturday.
With the game knotted at 1-1, Detroit Tigers reliever Jose Cisnero loaded the bases in the bottom of the 10th, and Tim Anderson came to the plate.
Cisnero fired a fastball at 96.4 mph that was up and in and apparently too hot for catcher Eric Haase to handle.
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The ball ricocheted off home plate umpire Cory Blaser’s face mask and toward the Tigers’ on-deck circle on the third-base side.
Haase had no idea where the ball was as Blaser fell to the dirt. Cisnero ran toward the ball, but Yoan Moncada read the wild pitch perfectly and scored the game-winning run.
Even after the winning run came across to score, there was still some confusion on the field, including among the victorious White Sox.
Blaser was looked at by several trainers but walked off the field on his own.
In more good news for Chicago, Liam Hendriks recorded his first strikeout since returning from his non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis.
Since starting 7-21, the White Sox have gone 18-14 in their last 32 games. Their record is 25-35, but things don’t look as bad as the first month of the season. Detroit fell to 26-30 and is four games behind the 31-27 Minnesota Twins for the AL Central lead.
Sunbathing 70-year-old grandmother mauled to death by family dog
A 70-year-old British grandmother was mauled to death by her family’s dog as she sunbathed in her backyard Friday — making her at least the fifth person to die from dog attacks in the UK this year.