Lamar Odom To Box Rapper Aaron Carter In A Three-Round Exhibition On June 12

Lamar Odom, the 14-year NBA veteran, is set to box rapper, Aaron Carter in a three-round exhibition on June 12.

The event will take place at the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City. The bout will unfold over three 90-second rounds as part of a per view, Celebrity Boxing creator and CEO Damon Feldman told TMZ on Wednesday.

“I’m really excited to be fighting Lamar Odom. This is a crazy matchup. It’s like David and Goliath,” said Carter (via boxingscene). “It’s going to be kind of crazy. I’m really looking forward to this fight. I’m not just an [entertainer]. I’m also a fighter. I grew up street fighting.”

For Feldman, although the bout is an exhibition, he is very eager to see it happen as he promises for it to be a very exciting bout.

“It’s going to be a showdown. They are both fighters. Aaron has boxing experience. Lamar is an athlete. It has the potential to be one of the biggest celebrity fights of all time,” said Feldman. “It’s going to be a war. It’s going to be a knockout, there is no doubt.”

Lamar Odom has been posting footage on social media showing his boxing skills after he signed a deal with Celebrity Boxing on Jan. 14. Odom has been training with coach Xavier Biggs at the Decatur Boxing Club in Georgia.

For Odom to even get to this point is crazy. The former NBA champion survived a serious scare shortly after retiring in 2015. He had a drug overdose at a Nevada brothel and Odom had six strokes and 12 heart attacks and was in a coma.

“I have horrible memory loss,” Odom told People in a May 2019 interview. “And my long-term memory was affected as well. Athletically, my balance is poo. I was shocked how weak my body became … [The overdose] made me realize I couldn’t live the way I’d been living. Life is too good.”

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