To paraphrase my friend Bob regarding this bit of news, there is no way this will end well:
That George Zimmerman charity boxing match is really happening, and now he has an opponent.
Celebrity boxing promoter Damon Feldman said in a news release that he picked rapper DMX out of a pool of 15,000 e-mailed requests to participate. “The match will be one of the Biggest Celebrity Boxing matches of all time,” the release read, as quoted by CNN.
Zimmerman previously said the match was his idea, and that he had been training since “prior to the incident.” He was acquitted in 2012 in the killing of teenager Trayvon Martin.
DMX was pretty fired up for the bout. He told TMZ he was prepared to break every rule in boxing “to make sure I f**k him right up.”
I suspect we’re going to see a lot of true colors on display around this event.
For my part, while I suppose I’m rooting for DMX (to the extent I’m rooting for anyone), I don’t really want to see Zimmerman get the crap beaten out of him. I don’t want to see him at all. I think he’s willing to accept large numbers of people hating him if it means he stays famous—it’s therefore a far greater punishment for him to fade into obscurity, a footnote in the history of American stupidity.
He doesn’t deserve to get punched in the face by DMX on national television. He deserves to live to be old, decrepit, and completely, utterly forgotten.
Anyway, here’s a clip from 2000’s Romeo Must Die, with DMX offering perhaps the best use of the “Guns don’t kill people…” line at about the 2:22 mark:
UPDATE (02/09/2014): It’s been cancelled.
