Rappers having boxing matches against "celebrities" has already become a thing during 2014, although many (but not Music Times) were disappointed that a George Zimmerman / The Game throw down didn't come to fruition. We may have our chance to see an equally embarrassing if less politically relevant match if Cam'Ron gets his way.
The rapper dropped the track "Humphrey" on his EP Federal Reserve, in which the emcee calls out current IBF, WBA and IBA light-heavyweight world champion Bernard Hopkins for a round of pummeling. Of course this was all just a show of hip-hop braggadocio, not an act of actual crippling hubris.
Oh wait it's totally an act of actual crippling hubris.
"I'm not even joking. I'm 100 percent serious," he said. "I respect the s--t out of Bernard Hopkins. I think he's one of the best. But at 49 years old, you're basically fighting for money. And you're not gonna get a bigger payday than fighting me."
Cam'Ron apparently believes that 49 is basically retirement home age, and the fact that Hopkins still holds belts must be because he's in a recreational league at the senior center or something. For comparison, Mike Tyson is 48. Would you fight Mike Tyson? No. No you would not.
Hopkins did respond to the song via Twitter, saying that he'll accept the fight, because he knows Cam'Ron is right about at least one thing: big money. And if he gets a sizable paycheck to fight someone with no professional boxing experience to get that paycheck? Free money.
