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Somebody make "celebrity" boxing stop

1980s World Wrestling Federation star Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake will replace Jose Canseco in the latest "celebrity" boxing abomination. He'll fight a guy who can eat a ton of chicken wings. (via www.wrestlingvalley.org)

One of the things in the world of sports journalism that completely boggles my mind is the fact that you can hardly get guys (and ladies) that don't cover boxing specifically to give a portion of a damn about a fight like Miguel Cotto-Joshua Clottey or Joseph Agbeko-Vic Darchinyan, but whenever "celebrity" boxing comes up, the vultures swoop.

I get that part of it is the TMZ culture that has engulfed too much of our media, and I don't want to go on a big tangent about it, but how does Jose Canseco "fighting" Danny Bonaduce become newsworthy as it semi-did last year? The latest "celebrity" boxing fiasco centers again on Canseco, who is 0-2-1 as "a boxer" and most recently turtled in an MMA fight he didn't belong in in Japan, who was set to fight chicken wing eating champion Bill "El Wingador" Simmons.

Canseco has pulled out, citing his father's illness as a reason, and will be replaced by former 1980s wrestling mid-carder and Hulk Hogan friend Ed Leslie, best known as Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake.

And people are paying attention to this like it's news, but relatively speaking there aren't many articles out there about Timothy Bradley and Nate Campbell next Saturday.

I've said a couple times in the past that I don't in any way like charity boxing or fundraiser boxing, and "celebrity" boxing falls in line. These people have to pass no physicals 99% of the time, usually don't know what they're doing, and it's a dangerous sport to take part in, even with headgear and every precaution. If Leslie or "El Wingador" wind up hurt, who's going to pay their medical bills? The "promoter"?

It's a non-story, and I'll admit I did this in part to get a photo of Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake featured on a boxing blog, so feel free to ignore. I do have legitimate gripes, but LOOK AT HIS OUTFIT HAHAHA!

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In all fairness I’m kinda bummed that nowadays you don’t see over the top characters like that in wrestling. At least not as much as in the days of Brutus.

by keyz on Jul 25, 2009 8:03 AM EDT reply actions  

Yeah it was a parasailing accident, if I recall. He had to leave the ring for a couple years.

by Scott Christ on Jul 26, 2009 7:45 AM EDT up reply actions  

Shouldn't be a huge deal

MAB fought half his career with a metal plate in his head.

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by Brickhaus on Jul 26, 2009 7:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

good to see

beefcake get his head out of hulk hogans ass for enough time to do this.

i tend to like celeb boxing though. it is what it is. its fun to see who can actually fight and who cant. how else would you know that screech would kick the shit out of horshack?

by sonofapsycho on Jul 26, 2009 7:59 PM EDT reply actions  

Screech-Horshack bothered me. Clear size and reach advantage, plus a lot of youth, for Screech. Horshack never stood a chance. They shouldn’t have licensed such an atrocity.

Then again Danny Bonaduce beat up Jose Canseco and was like a foot shorter than him, but then they screwed Bonaduce. I hope his career can recover.

by Scott Christ on Jul 27, 2009 6:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

beefcake

he was always a fav of mine back in the day…watch out for the sleeper hold

-Brian

by bp on Jul 26, 2009 10:10 PM EDT reply actions  

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