An interesting facet of dueling was that you were willing to put your life on the line for your act. If both attended, both were defending their honor.
Matthews has no honor. He would not show for such an event, and his tingling leg would have affected his aim anyway.
Personally, if Michelle were my woman (I can dream, can’t I?), I would have subjected Matthews to a pugilistic experience he wouldn’t have forgotten. He would have been “eating” through a straw for weeks; and MSNBC’s rating would have been soaring in his absence.
A pugilistic experience? Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina used his cane on Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts because he viewed Sumner as not being a gentleman, and thus unworthy of a duel. A cane or a horsewhip would have sufficed for Matthews.