Like all of us who follow MMA and other sports, I've heard tell of athletes doing some pretty stupid stuff. Gazillionaire football players running drugs and guns and trying to start fights with Bas Rutten, boxers allowing themselves to be managed by the single sleaziest businessman ever to involve himself in sports, soccer players throwing lawn darts at youth training teams...the list goes on and on. But this one is a real goddamn doozy. The idiot at the center of this particular shitstorm of dumbness is only peripherally involved in MMA, but who cares? Let's all point and laugh at him! The scene: Jose Canseco is set to take part in a "Celebrity Boxing" match at the Hard Rock Hotel in Seminole, Florida. He shows up demanding 5 grand in cash up front, which the promoter doesn't give him because he wants to pay with a check. And from there, things went a little "Dumb & Dumber":
A half-hour before the scheduled bout, here was the scene: Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael, was waiting in Jose's corner. The opponent, trainer Billy Padden, waited in the ring. The music to introduce Jose Canseco began playing. When he didn't show, it played again.
"I still wasn't going to pay cash, and that's when [Ozzie] walked out,'' Feldman said. "About then people began telling me it wasn't really Jose, too. They pointed to the tattoos on his arms.
Yep, Jose sent his twin brother Ozzie out to fight for him. No, really. Ozzie was promptly busted and the fight didn't happen. Granted, Canseco's celebrity boxing record is less than stellar--he's dropped "fights" to washed-up NFL players and the craziest ginger in the world--and his moral compass was smashed into tiny pieces long ago, but this is a pretty hilarious new low for the roided-up former ballplayer. In fairness to Canseco, bad things usually happen when he shows up for a fight. Of course, this is one of the best things about sports, be it mixed martial arts or tennis or whatever else: we get to give some very stupid people insane amounts of money and fame and then watch them fuck it all up so completely that it defies belief. Awesome.
HT for this amazing display of stupidity: MMAMania.com by way of the Sun-Sentinel.
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