{"id":296349,"date":"2017-02-22T07:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296349"},"modified":"2017-02-22T07:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:07:38","slug":"soulja-boy-claims-chris-brown-has-pulled-out-of-their-celebrity-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296349","title":{"rendered":"Soulja Boy claims Chris Brown has pulled out of their celebrity fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soulja Boy is claiming that Chris Brown has pulled out of their celebrity boxing match.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have been involved in a feud on social media and had arranged to fight in Las Vegas over three rounds but a date was never announced.<\/p>\n<p>Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was training Chris Brown while Soulja Boy was being put through his paces by another boxing star, Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n<p>But the rapper has tweeted to say the $1m (\u00a3803,500) grudge fight is off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chris brown manager called my manager last night and said the fight is off and he&#8217;s not signing contract. Don&#8217;t ask me about [it] no more.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/112AB\/production\/_94751307_ap_brown.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Brown\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I aint gon say&#8230; he shook or nothing. I&#8217;m just gon say he don&#8217;t wanna fight. simple. I can&#8217;t force him to sign the [contract].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grudge started after Soulja Boy liked and left a comment below a picture on the profile of Karrueche Tran, Chris Brown&#8217;s ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The pair posted several videos and pictures mocking and threatening each other as the argument heated up.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BO2ae8xjrMF\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=7\" width=\"300\" height=\"736\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Fellow rapper 50 Cent had backed Soulja Boy to win the fight and said he&#8217;d be placing a $100,000 (\u00a380,500) bet on the outcome of the pay-per-view event.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tyson said on social media that he&#8217;d been recording a Soulja Boy diss tape last month but nothing&#8217;s been released.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/139BB\/production\/_94751308_getty_tyson.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Tyson\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chris Brown, 27, and Soulja Boy, 26, have been criticised by fans and other celebrities for their public feud.<\/p>\n<p>Soulja Boy has been accused of using the match as a tactic to boost his music career.<\/p>\n<p>There were also reports that Soulja Boy had started using another former heavyweight champion, Evander Holyfield, to train him after falling out with Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soulja Boy is claiming that Chris Brown has pulled out of their celebrity boxing match. The pair have been involved in a feud on social media and had arranged to fight in Las Vegas over three rounds but a date was never announced. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was training Chris Brown while Soulja Boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}