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Disgraced NFL Player Greg Hardy Said He’s Working At Walmart Before Claiming He Was Trolling
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Former NFL player Greg Hardy© Provided by BroBible
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There are a number of NFL players who’ve been charged with domestic abuse thanks to an ample amount of evidence but were eventually welcomed back into the league with open arms by teams who were willing to look past the allegations.
That was the case with Greg Hardy, who spent six years in the NFL as a member of the Panthers and the Cowboys.
In 2015, Dallas signed him to a one-year deal in spite of the four-game suspension he received after the league conducted an investigation into an incident where he was accused of strangling and threatening to kill his girlfriend (he was initially convicted on multiple counts the previous year before the case was dropped upon appeal after the accuser didn’t appear to testify in court).
Hardy pivoted to MMA in 2016 shortly after he was arrested in Dallas for the possession of cocaine, and after a series of dominant amateur performances, he was invited to compete in UFC’s Contender Series despite backlash from the many critics Dana White dismissed while awkwardly defending the decision to sign him.
You could argue the biggest reason Hardy was a draw was that a lot of people would’ve loved to see an alleged woman beater get his comeuppance in the Octagon—which is exactly what transpired when he got obliterated by Sergey Spivak at UFC 272 in 2022.
Hardy was subsequently released before signing a contract with the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship only to get knocked out in the second round of his debut earlier this year.
