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Originally Published 2 months ago DMX Cancels MMA Fight, Coolio Rumored To Replace Him
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DMX Cancels MMA Fight, Coolio Rumored To Replace Him
Rapper's camp confirms he won't appear in December Alabama Pride match.
By Kyle Anderson
Back in September, constantly embattled rapper DMX announced that he was planning on putting his mic skills aside and letting his fists do the talking, as he was booked for a professional mixed martial arts fight against a member of his management team in December. But we may never know how good a kickboxer X is. His camp confirmed to MTV News that X has pulled out of the Alabama Pride match.
While X has never fought professionally before, his booked opponent Eric Martinez has a professional MMA win. Over the weekend, TMZ reported that there was a disagreement between X and promoter Thunder Productions, specifically that the rapper had demanded that the fight be fixed in his favor. The site obtained an unsigned document purported to an addendum X's manager tried to make to the original fight agreement, stating that "Artist is scheduled to win" the match.
AllHipHop.com reported that Thunder is considering whether or not to bring a lawsuit against DMX for backing out.
But the fight, scheduled for Saturday, December 12 in Birmingham, Alabama — may still go on. According to TMZ, Thunder has tapped rapper Coolio to step into X's shoes and square off against Martinez. Like DMX, Coolio doesn't have any formal fight training, but according to TMZ's source at Thunder, he has been cooperative and "is going to take this seriously."
Tickets for the event — including plenty of ringside seats — are still available.
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1 month ago
Word is that the Coolio match up didnt happen either. Idiots.
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2 months ago
i knew it was too good to be true. dmx in mma. juss punkin out
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2 months ago
wtf MMA is becoming the thing to do if you want to gain status with general public the only MMA DMX should be involved in was in that movie "cradle to the grave"
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2 months ago
haha hey no worries we still got butterbean vs abbot where one will die of old age and the other heart failure simultaneously in the cage
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2 months ago
He needs to go train with Greg Jackson's camp. They can get him straightened out. I can't wait to see him fight UFC.
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2 months ago
Fight fixing? sorry buddy not in mma.
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2 months ago
yet another fight not happening
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2 months ago
i think losing the fight would have been better for his career than getting caught trying to fix it. lol...how lame
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2 months ago
how embarrassing.
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2 months ago
This whole thing is a freakin joke!
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2 months ago
Fixed? Don king is promoting? lol
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2 months ago
omg^^ chicken!!!!
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2 months ago
Lol someone got scared.
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