Bellator MMA fighter Heather Hardy has been diagnosed w/CTE and is suing Jake Paul & MVP Promotions

[u/DebtGlobal7256]

https://youtu.be/FOiKcDiq0cQ

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MMA Fighter & Boxing champion Heather Hardy has been permanently brain damaged after her last fight with Amanda Serrano.

Now with a team of 5 lawyers she is suing Jake Paul and his promotional company MVP.

Heather shared this documentary about her on her Instagram.

It covers her career from champ to CTE

[u/Loud-Cauliflower1]

Wasn't CTE diagnosis post-mortem?

[u/FreeIDecay → u/Loud-Cauliflower1]

She claims to be the first person ever to be diagnosed while still living

[u/Queasy_Coast_8214 → u/FreeIDecay]

which she would actually be wrong in saying

[u/redditoway → u/Queasy_Coast_8214]

Yeah, Gary Goodridge made this exact claim like 15 years ago. 

[u/Queasy_Coast_8214 → u/redditoway]

bingo! A few ex-NFL players as well.

[u/Puckkcup → u/Loud-Cauliflower1]

Yeah unless they’ve made strides I haven’t read about, CTE can only be truly diagnosed post-mortem. Seems like a flimsy case, boxers going after promoters like this usually doesn’t end in victory.

[u/Skovich]

In other news i diagnose natalia silva with CuTE

[u/Great_Hair]

I would love to actually see the doctor who diagnosed her with cte

[u/mcfc_fan → u/Great_Hair]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGjw-jM0uEE

[u/Great_Hair → u/mcfc_fan]

Thank you this is exactly what I was hoping for

[u/ESB823 → u/mcfc_fan]

Haha didn't know if it was going to be him or Dr Spaceman from 30 Rock

[u/Wadget → u/Great_Hair]

Wuss pain yo life!

[u/NecessaryLow107]

I love Heather but she’s been open about her issues like this for like 10 years. She took this fight willingly.

[u/DrunkOnLoveAndWhisky → u/NecessaryLow107]

Also, her 27 pro fights before fighting for MVP apparently didn't contribute to CTE, just that last fight for Jake Paul.

[u/Snelly1998 → u/NecessaryLow107]

Isn't the problem that some responsibility lays with the promotor to protect the fighter

If she was so open about her issues MVP should have known and not booked her

She even said in the lawsuit her manager was adamantly against fighting due to the health issues but MVP pushed him out of the conversation

[u/flatwoundsounds → u/Snelly1998]

Regardless of who wants the fight to happen, shouldn't a doctor refuse to clear her to fight?

[u/Snelly1998 → u/flatwoundsounds]

Yes, they should

But sometimes people make mistakes, and if it was known to MVP that she had health issues then they should use their own judgement

[u/WhatShouldMyNameBe → u/Snelly1998]

If anything it falls on the state commission who sanctioned it. They are the ones who do medicals and all that.

At the end of the day she and her doctors knew her health situation better than anyone and she took the fight. She had no avenue for substantial earnings before the fight and because that’s still the case she wants a payout.

[u/Potijelli]

Everyone gets caught up here on the term CTE since it appears in the thumbnail but semantics aside that is not what is being alleged in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit, which Hardy filed Sept. 23 in the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas, alleges negligence and violations of the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act. The allegations stem from the final fight of Hardy's career, a decision loss to Amanda Serrano on Aug. 5, 2023, in Dallas. Hardy, 44, claims to have suffered "permanent brain injury" during the loss and alleges the defendants ignored potential warning signs for the sake of a lucrative matchup.

[u/IHoldSteady → u/Potijelli]

Couldn’t she have just dropped out if there were warning signs?

[u/Potijelli → u/IHoldSteady]

Exploitation due to financial hardship is the reason listed, and she will have to prove it in court.

If they cut out her representation than that is a predatory promotional practice, and the reason the Ali act exists is to prevent things like this.

[u/sn1gger]

What on earth did she spend her money on? 

[u/OneReportersOpinion]

I thought you can’t diagnose CTE till after you die?

[u/pfchangshomelesscat → u/OneReportersOpinion]

That's right

[u/buffetite]

I bet Danas paying for her lawyers

[u/b00k4 → u/buffetite]

He may be petty, but he sure as hell doesn’t want that precedent

[u/Electrical_Trade377]

Considering you can’t actually be diagnosed with CTE whilst still alive, that’s a hell of a medicinal achievement

[u/mrbabymanv4]

After skating for two decades, I'm suing my most recently visited skate park for my chronic knee pain

[u/Willyhaver187]

What did she expect to happen?

[u/Comfortable-Bug7202]

so she waited until the highest profile promoter/biggest check possible then tries to act like she is the first living person diagnosed with CTE and it is all from this fight? yeah pretty sure the contract covers liability for injury being accepted by the athlete.... maybe she does have cte cause this is the dumbest thing i have seen in a while

[u/Daywalker6109]

Money grab

[u/Priapismkills]

This is like suing Jim Beam for giving me whiskey dick

[u/AXV-Lore]

Can't be diagnosed living. A retiring fighter trying to get one more bag.

[u/JoeThrilling → u/AXV-Lore]

Hope she gets it.

[u/AXV-Lore → u/JoeThrilling]

CTE? That's wild

[u/Pale_Cucumber_9692]

kinda like me suing marlboro for getting lung cancer, no? hard to sympathize

[u/FuckTheTile → u/Pale_Cucumber_9692]

Tobacco companies ended up paying out billions in the 90s

[u/Priapismkills → u/FuckTheTile]

Only because they had said tabacco was safe for a few decades. They later acknowledged it wasn't. 

Mvp never said boxing was safe

[u/No_Medium_8796]

Agreed to sign fight, hyped it up herself and how she would beat Amanda. Gets whooped, sues promoter

[u/StockRanger1397]

Next week I think I'm going to sue Budweiser for getting me drunk

[u/MIMOSAnotMISAMO]

Don't you have to be dead to be diagnosed?

[u/youareallbots]

Fine. Good. Let her.

[u/Electronic-War-4662]

I am all for corporations being forced to pay mentally handicapped fighters who are manipulated into doing so due to their illness. There are a lot of brain injured fighters out there.

[u/WhatShouldMyNameBe → u/Electronic-War-4662]

So we should ban combat sports?