Boxing, Celebrity, and What the World is Getting Wrong
By Thomas Gerbasi - From a quick Google search at 10:15am eastern time on Thursday: George Zimmerman Boxing – 119,000,000 results Floyd Mayweather Boxing – 21,800,000 results The best boxer of this era and a future Hall of Famer, Floyd Mayweather Jr., received less search engine results when attached to the word “boxing” than George Zimmerman. Must be a glitch, you might say, but that would probably be a wrong assessment, simply because nothing has captivated the masses in recent days like the news that Zimmerman, the man acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter in the February 26, 2012 slaying of Trayvon Martin, is currently preparing for a Celebrity Boxing match on March 1, with the frontrunner to face him being rapper DMX, though the 43-year-old’s publicist claims that no deal has yet been signed.