Posted on 07/22/2009 2:18:34 PM PDT by okie01
Canseco to fight 'El Wingador'
PHILADELPHIA -- Jose Canseco is hungry for another shot at winning a celebrity boxing bout. Yet he may not be as famished as his next opponent in this bizarre form of sports entertainment, a man who also knows how to dig in at the plate.
It's the former American League MVP vs. Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, a five-time champion of Philadelphia's famed Wing Bowl. Both have an appetite for victory. "Hopefully he doesn't start eating my hand or something," Canseco said.
Canseco is 0 for 2 in recording a victory on promoter Damon Feldman's wild and wacky cards. He lost last year to former Philadelphia Eagle Vai Sikahema, and finished with a majority draw against one-time child star Danny Bonaduce of "The Partridge Family" in January. "I was definitely taking it easy on Danny," Canseco said. "I just used my height and weight on him. I'm not out there to hurt anybody. In the Vai Sikahema fight, he was out there to hurt me and I didn't realize it until too late."
Canseco, stigmatized for two tell-all books about steroids in baseball, will fight Simmons on Friday night at an ice skating rink in Aston, Pa.
Simmons ate his way into Philadelphia sports cult status with a record five Wing Bowl titles. Wing Bowl is a chicken wing eating contest that has earned a barbecue-stained spot on Philly's sports calendar as an annual decadent display of binge eating. Simmons won the last of his five stomach-stretching titles in 2005.
Perhaps the tagline for this main event should be: "One was juiced, the other was sauced."
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So, it wasn’t steroids after all?
The only thing I remeber about Canseco’s steroid fueled baseball career is that fly ball bouncing off his head at the wall and going into the stands for a home run. Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are!
It's not known that Ozzie ever took steroids. But, while Jose spent all or part of 17 seasons in the major leagues and hit 462 HR, Ozzie spent parts of three seasons in the bigs and launched...zero HR.
Evidently, in some regards, they were not "identical"...
Jose was laughing, but I remember Kenny Rogers was one po’ed pitcher.
First Canseco gets his clocked cleaned by a football player (Sikahema). Then he fights to a majority draw against a member of the Partridge Family (Bonaduce). And now he's fighting a chicken wing-eating champion no one's ever heard of? Come on, Jose. Get into that rink with the ice queen herself -- Tonya Harding. THAT I'd pay to see.
You didn’t want to piss off Kenny Rogers. He’s got a pretty nasty temper. Did he retire?
I have to admit that as much as I dislike Jose and his steroid use, I loved that baseball off the head moment.
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