Ex-UFC heavyweight Greg Hardy, who has since gone on to compete in boxing and under the BKFC banner, is in the news again — for exactly the wrong reasons.
On Wednesday, Hardy was arrested by police officers in Richardson, Texas, following a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, following allegations that the fighter had become involved with another woman.
Hardy has since been charged with “Assault Causes Bodily Injury Family Member.”
In documents obtained by Cageside Press, one of two officers on scene reported that an argument had kicked off while the couple had taken their children to a nearby park, though the pair put the discussion on hold until after returning home and putting the kids to bed.
From there, Hardy’s significant other confronted him “about a woman that she believed he was cheating on her with while he was out of town,” the police report reads. The complainant, who Cageside Press is not naming for privacy reasons, claimed to have seen messages from the unnamed other woman on Hardy’s phone, at which point the former NFL star advised her to “get out of his face.”
When the complainant refused to do so, Hardy gave her a two-handed shove, causing her to fall onto a bed. “Hardy then got on top of [the complainant] and held her down with one of his hands around her neck area.” Despite that, she later stated that “her breathing was not restricted nor did she lose consciousness.” The complainant, according to a Richardson police officer, then began kicking Hardy, before the fighter pushed her feet away, took her keys, and drove off in her car.
Hardy was later taken into custody during a traffic stop, while driving his girlfriend’s vehicle.
This is far from Hardy’s first domestic violence incident; similar conduct saw him essentially bounced from the NFL, after the former Panthers Defensive End was charged with assault and communicating threats, after strangling and threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend. Hardy was found guilty following that 2014 incident, though on appeal, the victim failed to testify, and charges were later dropped after prosecutors were unable to locate the woman.
Hardy’s Richardson Police Department arrest record lists his occupation as “unemployed.” He was last seen competing in an exhibition boxing match in December 2024, losing to Alexei Papin. In MMA, Hardy compiled a record of 7-5, 1NC, with all but three of his fights coming under the UFC banner. He most recently competed there in 2022, losing to Serghei Spivac.
