Wanna fight Jose Canseco? Bring $50, get in line

By at 29 April, 2009, 12:52 pm

Former baseball superstar slugger Jose Canseco will fall hard. In a sense, he already has. Jose Canseco in training (Photo by AP) Canseco, who’s now as well known for the book that blew the lid off baseball’s dirty little steroid secrets as for his towering homers, is scheduled to get in the boxing ring for a three-round bout June 27 in Fort Lauderdale. In a tabloid twist, some of the proceeds of the evening of boxing will go to the John Graziano Foundation, a foundation for a Tampa man seriously injured in a 2007 accident with wrestler Hulk Hogan ’s son. No venue’s been picked yet, but chances are Canseco’ll fight someone off the street. Well, this being Florida, it’s someone off the mall! Promoters will be accepting $50 applications to fight Canseco at the Dadeland Mall near Miami noon at 4 p.m. Saturday. Hear that, Mark McGwire

? No need to remind you that Canseco wrote he injected you personally with ‘roids! “We’ll pick the person who we think won’t get hurt,” promoter Damon Seldman said. “Canseco’s a big guy.” Seldman runs Celebrity Boxing, which pairs up disliked celebs or has-beens in boxing fights. Canseco just fought Danny Bonaduce , the wise-cracking son in the 1970s TV series The Partridge Family , to a draw in Pennsylvania. “Jose took it easy on Danny, trust me,” Seldman said. The John Graziano Foundation, meanwhile, was set up to collect money to build Graziano, once the best friend of Hogan’s son, reality TV’s  Nick Bollea , a home adapted to his numerous and permanent brain injuries. Bollea served 166 days in prison for his role in the street racing accident.

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