Mark Wahlberg, Will Smith Offered $1 Million for Celebrity Boxing Match
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Mark Wahlberg and Will Smith have portrayed real-life boxers in blockbuster bio-pics -- Wahlberg playing Mickey Ward in new film "The Fighter," and Smith playing Muhammad Ali in 2001's "Ali." Now, they may get to try on their boxing chops for real -- on each other.
Damon Feldman, CEO of Hollywood Boxing Federation, is offering each fighter $1 million to fight in a Feb. 26 fight in Las Vegas.
"This will be a great opportunity for both stars to fight in the Super Bowl of Hollywood boxing and to donate millions to their favorite charities. It would be a great event too. Can you imagine?"
According to Feldman, the idea is for the two to fight three one-minute rounds. A location for the proposed fight hasn't been determined.
"We don't think these two are going to rip each others heads off," Feldman said. "We're just hoping they get into the ring and have a little fun duking it out."
wahlberg once whooped, i believe, 2-3 vietnamese guys in one fight. he knocks the head off the first vietnamese, permanently blind the other vietnamese's eye (right eye) and i forgot about the third one.
wahlberg also went to jail before for beating his neighbor's ass while unprovoked.
wahlberg had racist issues growing up. glad he's changed.
if this fight goes through, wahlberg will win via a vicious knockout.
They were all either little kids or old men. Nothing to brag about and certainly much different from fighting someone 6-2 who can hit back.
beating up 3 people at the same time is hard. one of them was a security guard too.
you seriously think those people didn't hit back? lol.
and lol@ being 6'2. height isn't all that you know. we all know marky mark's had boxing training even from before.
wahlberg once whooped, i believe, 2-3 vietnamese guys in one fight. he knocks the head off the first vietnamese, permanently blind the other vietnamese's eye (right eye) and i forgot about the third one.
wahlberg also went to jail before for beating his neighbor's ass while unprovoked.
wahlberg had racist issues growing up. glad he's changed.
if this fight goes through, wahlberg will win via a vicious knockout.
They were all either little kids or old men. Nothing to brag about and certainly much different from fighting someone 6-2 who can hit back.
wahlberg once whooped, i believe, 2-3 vietnamese guys in one fight. he knocks the head off the first vietnamese, permanently blind the other vietnamese's eye (right eye) and i forgot about the third one.
wahlberg also went to jail before for beating his neighbor's ass while unprovoked.
wahlberg had racist issues growing up. glad he's changed.
if this fight goes through, wahlberg will win via a vicious knockout.
From Wiki:
"Wahlberg claims to have been in trouble 20–25 times with the Boston Police Department as a youth. By the age of 13, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances. At 15, he harassed a group of African American school children on a field trip by throwing rocks (causing injuries) and shouting racial epithets. When he was 16, Wahlberg knocked a middle-aged Vietnamese man unconscious, left another Vietnamese man permanently blind in one eye, and attacked a security guard (again using racist language). For these crimes, Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to assault, and was sentenced to two years in jail at Boston's Deer Island House of Correction, of which he served 45 days (6.16%). In another incident, the 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack. Commenting in 2006 on his past crimes, Wahlberg has stated: "I did a lot of things that I regretted and I have certainly paid for my mistakes." He said the right thing to do would be to try to find the blinded man and make amends, and admitted he has not done so, but added that he was no longer burdened by guilt: "You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. I feel good when I wake up in the morning."
After landing in prison following this assault, Wahlberg decided to change his ways. In his own words, "As soon as I began that life of crime, there was always a voice in my head telling me I was going to end up in jail. Three of my brothers had done time. My sister went to prison so many times I lost count. Finally I was there, locked up with the kind of guys I'd always wanted to be like. Now I'd earned my stripes and I was just like them and I realized it wasn't what I wanted at all. I'd ended up in the worst place I could possibly imagine and I never wanted to go back. First of all I had to learn to stay on the straight and narrow." Wahlberg first relied on the guidance of his parish priest to turn his back on crime. He told his street gang that he was leaving them and had "some serious fights" with them over it. The actor commented in 2009: "I've made a lot of mistakes in my life and I've done bad things. But I never blamed my upbringing for that. I never behaved like a victim so that I would have a convenient reason for victimising others. Everything I did wrong was my own fault. I was taught the difference between right and wrong at an early age. I take full responsibility"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg#Legal_troubles
Ali vs Micky Ward?
Will Smith trained himself into a bit of a speciman making Ali epic film, being able to bench press mammoth weights, sparring with heavyweight boxers and holding his own.
Walberg said he coud knock out Pac if he sucker punched him.
I dont know whos got the better resume out of these two.
People love exaggerating heights around here.
Will Smith - 6'1-6'2
Mark Walberg - 5'9-5'10
I'll still go with Smith by stoppage
Mark is 5 ft 7 in Will is 6ft 1 in though. Easy win for Will.
I voted Smith, then i thought about it, Wahlberg is a badass!
im leaining against Mark here.
Since when is being a "badass" mean you can fight? Most bullies or badasses I've known can't fight for ****.
Would be fun to see happen but
Smith - 6'3
Wahlberg - 5'7
HW vs JMW........?
he might be 5'7 but hes no jmw his wal around weight is probably over 175 in the 190's possibly
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