This time, he'll be stepping into a boxing ring. Although no contract has been signed, a promoter is negotiating with rapper DMX to fight him, according towards the promoter as well as a rep for DMX.
"DMX has promised to 'beat his ass,' having said that no contract or paperwork has been signed or agreed to on the other hand," DMX spokesman Domenick Nati told CNN Wednesday.
Zimmerman stated the celebrity boxing match was his concept. Boxing was his hobby, he told Radar Online last month, even before the "incident."
The incident, naturally, will be the February 2012 experience in which he shot dead an unarmed Trayvon Martin, one He stood trial for murder in spite of this was acquitted last year.
"Prior towards the incident, I was truly going to the gym for fat loss and performing boxing-type training for weight loss," he told Radar.
"A mutual friend put me in get in touch with with Damon and provided me with an chance and motivation to locate back in shape and continue with my fat loss objectives and too be able to assist a charity out."
Damon is Damon Feldman, owner of Celebrity Boxing as well as a self-described opportunist whose claim to fame is putting together bizarre matchups. Think Tonya Harding, Michael Lohan.
He stated last week that he was accepting delivers for someone to step into the ring for a 3-round, pay-per-view fight with Zimmerman.
"The news has been out for an hour and my e-mail is overloaded with 8,000 individuals wanting to fight George," Feldman told CNN on Thursday.
Early Wednesday morning, he stated he'd picked the contender. Out of additional than 15,000 e-mailed requests, he's going with DMX.
"The match might be one of the Biggest Celebrity Boxing matches of all time," his news release said (uppercase emphasis his).
But in order to find out where and when it is going to occur, we'll have to wait until subsequent week. Feldman stated Wednesday he was shooting for March 1
DMX, as we understand is a rapper, and braggadocio is his calling card.
He's out for blood, he told TMZ. Not only will he break each rule in boxing, he said, he'll "beat the living (expletive)" out of Zimmerman.
Not anyone welcomes the chance to see Zimmerman taking punches. Rev. Al Sharpton told a Los Angeles group Wednesday that he was concerned "about the precedent that it sets."
"We must be extremely careful not to glorify or in any way sidestep the implications of generating a person whose only claim to fame was killing an unarmed young man known as Trayvon Martin into a cultural celebrity or hero," Sharpton said.
A petition has been launched on Change.org calling for the planned boxing event to be canceled. "This is a blatant show of disrespect and nothing sure or righteous would come from such a stunt," it reads.
Ian Karmel, a writer for "Chelsea Lately," has a better idea.
"They must send Floyd Mayweather to the ring and tell George Zimmerman it is DMX," he tweeted. "He won't fully grasp the difference."
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