http://msn.foxsports.com/other/wcStory?contentId=8118850#story=8181262


Jose Canseco put out a challenge, and a former NFL Pro Bowler has answered the bell.Canseco, the former Oakland A's slugger and reality TV veteran who recently revealed that the mortgage on his home had been foreclosed, offered $5,000 to anyone who would step into the ring with him and headline a boxing card in Atlantic City this summer.
Now he has an opponent.
According to multiple published reports Tuesday, former Eagles kick returner and two-time Pro Bowler Vai Sikahema will fight Canseco in a July 12 bout at the Atlantic City Bernie Robbins Stadium.
Though Canseco, 43, has a size advantage on Sikahema (6-foot-4, 240 pounds compared to 5-9, 190 pounds — according to their variously recorded playing weights), Sikahema, 45, may have more boxing experience. The Tonga native famously did a goalpost-punching celebration dance after scoring a kick return touchdown against the Giants in 1992.
The boxing stunt is evidently a plan Canseco hatched to deal with his deepening financial woes. He has been through two costly divorces, rumored to have cost him as much as $8 million each.

???

Heh.

Jeebus. I give it to Canseco on the assumption he'll be nice and roided up for the match.

Canseco seemed like a cool guy when he wrote "Juiced" and did interviews about it, but ****...what a loser.

This is happening this weekend? I just heard about it today. Any coverage anywhere? Should I/anyone care?

No way he's beating a Tongan. You don't **** with Tongans.

I used to watch Vai Sikahema when he played for the Cardinals.

Great guy, phenomenal conditioning.

What could possibly be better than watching Jose Canseco get beaten up and humiliated at the same time?

I don't know- I thought I've heard in interviews that Jose is a "black belt". I don't know in what. Of course, Screech also claims the same thing, so who knows.

So is this going to be on any TV or live stream online?

No way he's beating a Tongan. You don't **** with Tongans.

For once we agree.
Teenage boys weighing about 20 stone each, for Christ's sake.

I actually inquired about Tongan weaponry, as the Tongan empire was extensive. They replied that they used weapons in WAR ONLY, but "Throwdowns" were conducted by trading a punch for a punch until one gives up.

I looked at them, then their arms and fists, and reminded myself never to piss them off. :bowdown:

I actually sent them an e-mail awhile back trying to accept this offer. There was an article that ran a month or two ago that said he would fight anybody for 5,000 bucks, and they provided a link to apply to and everything.

I guess they were holding out for someone semi-famous though.

Oh well. I'd have loved to box his ears :(