Boxing has Ali vs. Frazier, West Virginia and Kentucky have the Hatfields vs. the McCoys, and Brave CF has Mohammad Fakhreddine vs. Tahar Hadbi. Prior to their main card fight at Brave 9 last Saturday, the French-Algerian Hadbi threatened to kill Fakhreddine. The Lebanese fighter responded with ice.

“He’s saying he’s going to f***ing kill me? Well, the problem is, the last person that said that, his mom’s still looking for him,” ” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>replied Fakhreddine. “So you might want to say goodbye to your family before you come.”

Their fight ended in a No Contest when Abdi landed a low blow that the referee determined was accidental, despite it not being the first errant kick. By some counts, it was the 7th.

“You kicked me in the nuts so our beef is settled,” said no one ever. Hadbi now claims that Fakhreddine took the easy route out of the fight.

“If you see some of his past fights, you will see that every time the fighter is proving to be a handful for him, he finds a way to run away,” said Hadbi to Lucas Carrano for Brave. “He did the same with Vinicius Cruz. My knee was illegal, and I’m sorry about that. It was not intentional. But this happens to every fighter and of course, a fighter can take 5 mins to recover from such a blow, but I never saw a stoppage for this.

“Before the fight, I thought Fakhreddine was tough. But not anymore. I thought he had heavy hands, but not at all, trust me. I’ve fought more powerful opponents”.

Fakhreddine offered a starkly different view.

“He was running from me the whole fight,” charged Mohammad. “He was scared. I knew it. I was a lot stronger. I hit faster and harder than he does. That fight wasn’t going the distance, I was going to finish him in that second round. I was so close in the first, but he was tired and scared in the second. He could barely walk, he was so hurt.”

“I was still good, my weight cut was easy and I was in a super good shape. I was feeling really good.”

Expect a rematch soon.