The Iranian Hulk says his parents are refusing to speak to him after his previous scuffle with rival Martyn Ford. Watch below:
The Hulk, who's real name is Sajad Gharibi, is set to face off against Ford, also dubbed as the 'World's Scariest Man' on 30 April in London.
However, after the pair met for the first time in Dubai last month, an altercation saw Gharibi get absolutely floored during a heated confrontation.
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Hulk has now come out and said that his parents are refusing to talk to him and admits he has turned to sleeping pills as a result of the stress.
"I cannot call my family; when I returned [to Iran] I didn't go to my family," Hulk said while bursting into tears on Iranian TV.
"I can't talk to my father and my mother, when I spoke to her, said: 'The person in this video that I saw was not my son, my son is way stronger than this'.
"It hurts my heart when I can't talk to my family. I have lost my pride and I am destroyed. How can I explain?
"They deceived me and I fell to the ground. My family said that you will go there and finish him.
"They expected the other way around. How can I sleep or get any rest?
"I personally feel very bad and I cannot sleep but I am now taking sleeping pills.
"When a mum says that to her child, how can it be tolerated?
"There is a lot of pressure, if I got paid even one dollar to do that I can't continue."
For his part, Ford said at a press conference: "A lot has been said, I am asking the question if he genuinely wants to fight me?
"Because I don’t want to step in the ring and be perceived as a bully and seen as intimidating someone who hasn’t put the same work in as I have.
"If he really wants to do this fight, tell everyone he wants to do this fight and don’t put it on me.
“There is a lot of passion but at the end of the day your face goes in there face-to-face and it is fight or flight.
"So for me that was a case of ‘do you want to be here as well’ and for me that answer is no.
"If he agrees to step in and do it he needs to be ready. I expect if he is serious about fighting then he gets his a** into gear because I don’t want to disappoint people at the event."
Anish Vij