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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Following Herschel Walker's successful MMA debut on Saturday's Strikeforce: Miami event, another former pro athlete that has "fought" a mixed martial arts bout wants a piece of him.
On his Twitter account, Jose Canseco said the following: "I guess I may have to show Herschel Walker who the real bad Boy of the Sports industry is. If the powers that be are reading, I want in."
Canseco, of course, made his MMA "debut" in Japan in 2009, getting manhandled by Hong Man Choi in the first round of DREAM's Super Hulk Tournament. The former Major League Baseball player and steroid user/whistle blower is now trying to lobby for another chance in the sport.
It would be one hell of a media spectacle for the sport, but if any organization touches this with a ten foot pole it will likely go down as one of the worst ideas in the history of the sport.
Penick's Analysis: This would seriously be the worst idea for Strikeforce to even consider, and I don't think Scott Coker and Showtime are that stupid that they'd go along with even entertaining the possibility. Canseco's an absolute joke, was destroyed in his only MMA fight, would get destroyed by Walker and it would make a mockery of the sport to have it on any type of major event. For his sake I don't think Walker would go along with it, as he's taking things seriously and understands how difficult this sport is, and if he fights again they'd be best suited placing it on a Challengers card instead of hyping it for a major event, as there has been some backlash on such an amateur bout being placed on a more high profile event. Canseco needs to realize that he failed at Celebrity Boxing, he failed at MMA the first go around and there aren't many people that would want to have anything to do with putting him back into a second one.
[Herschel Walker photo by Mike Lano (c) MMATorch]
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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