{"id":33586,"date":"2014-01-15T20:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=33586"},"modified":"2014-01-15T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:16:32","slug":"hank-lundy-a-lot-of-guys-are-scared-to-fight-me-i-was-so-scared-at-a-lundy-fight-one-time-i-crapped-my-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=33586","title":{"rendered":"Hank Lundy: A Lot of Guys are Scared to Fight Me – “I Was so Scared at a Lundy Fight One Time I Crapped My Pants”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“I was so scared at a Lundy Fight One Time I crapped my pants.”- Antonio Martin, RSR #1 Reader<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHammerin\u2019\u201d Hank Lundy finds himself searching for an opponent, and, as usual, the Philadelphia slugger isn\u2019t choosy about who he steps in the ring with. \u201cWhoever is out there, I\u2019m ready,\u201d said Lundy, currently ranked among the top 15 in the 140-pound division in two of boxing\u2019s major sanctioning bodies, \u201cbut a lot of guys are scared to fight me right now. On any given day, I can end a fighter\u2019s career, so what they\u2019re doing now is running, but, at the end of the day, they\u2019ll have to fight me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been five months since Lundy\u2019s last fight, an impressive, unanimous-decision win over Ajose Olusegun on ESPN\u2019s \u201cFriday Night Fights.\u201d Lundy (23-3-1, 11 KOs) was so dominant he earned a shutout on one of the scorecards, snapping a two-fight losing streak and putting him back in the conversation among the elite 140-pounders.<\/p>\n

Lundy, promoted by Classic Entertainment & Sports, was scheduled to face New Jersey\u2019s Jeremy Bryan in October, but Bryan pulled out with a back injury and the card was ultimately postponed. Rumors of a nationally-televised showdown against unbeaten light welterweight Karim Mayfield surfaced in December, but the fight never happened and Lundy wound up closing out 2013 without a chance to build off the momentum from his big win over Olusegun.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know the game,\u201d Lundy said with a laugh. \u201cJeremy Bryan, of course he pulled out. At the end of the day, he looked at who he was fighting. He was fighting \u2018Hammerin\u201d Hank Lundy, one of the top guys in the world. In his last few fights, he\u2019d been getting knocked out [three times in his last six fights]. If he stepped in with me, it would\u2019ve been the same result.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mayfield fight was a done deal on our side, but, in reality, he knew what was going to happen to him. He wanted no parts of it. [Mayfield’s promoter] Top Rank said they wanted the fight. They told my manager [James Prince] to talk to their matchmaker [Brad Goodman]. We were told he was ready, then we never heard back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe tucked his tail like a [coward]. Scared money don\u2019t make no money!\u201d<\/p>\n

Lundy\u2019s list of targets reads like a who\u2019s who in the 135- to 140-pound divisions, whether it\u2019s undefeated Nebraska lightweight Terence Crawford, now 22-0 with 16 KOs; Mexican slugger Raymundo Beltran, who handed Lundy his second career loss in 2012; John Molina, who stopped Lundy on ESPN in 2010; or World Boxing Organization (WBO) lightweight champ Ricky Burns, who narrowly held on to his title in September in a controversial draw against Beltran.<\/p>\n

Lundy would even consider stepping in with close friend and fellow Philadelphia fighter Zahir Raheem, who continued his comeback with a win over Bayan Jargal last weekend on ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m real cool with his dad. We came up together,\u201d Lundy said, \u201cbut this is a business, and, at the end of the day, I\u2019d be ready to fight anyone who\u2019s out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The field is stacked, but so is Lundy\u2019s resume.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ready. I never stop training,\u201d he said. \u201cI just finished putting in eight miles. Most people, when I fought Ajose, they thought they\u2019d catch me on the sneak because I took the fight on short notice, but they didn\u2019t know I was in camp with Adrien Broner. I\u2019m always ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I was so scared at a Lundy Fight One Time I crapped my pants.”- Antonio Martin, RSR #1 Reader \u201cHammerin\u2019\u201d Hank Lundy finds himself searching for an opponent, and, as usual, the Philadelphia slugger isn\u2019t choosy about who he steps in the ring with. \u201cWhoever is out there, I\u2019m ready,\u201d said Lundy, currently ranked among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9411],"class_list":["post-33586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-hank-lundy-a-lot-of-guys-are-scared-to-fight-me-i-was-so-scared-at-a-lundy-fight-one-time-i-crapped-my-pants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33586"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}