The worlds of boxing and the NBA could collide with two of the biggest names in basketball swapping the court for the ring. LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith have been trading blows for weeks now and there is clearly genuine anger from each side.
Trash talk courtside is one thing, but now there is a genuine suggestion that the angst between the pair could get taken to the next level.
LeBron James posts video mocking Stephen A. Smith after threat of fight and punches
There was a back-and-forth between LeBron and Smith during the recent Lakers-Knicks game but nobody was certain as to what had been said.
However, both spoke about it on various podcasts afterwards and Smith was particularly boisterous.
Smith wasn’t about to let LeBron‘s comments go without a fight. On a new episode of his podcast, he came out swinging, branding LeBron “full of it” and an outright “liar.”
The ESPN loudmouth kept the heat on the Lakers superstar after his McAfee appearance, unloading a tirade that was pure Stephen A. He even floated a crazy what-if: If LeBron had gotten physical during their Lakers game run-in, Smith claimed, “I would’ve swung on him immediately.”
A ridiculous boxing fight
He called LeBron a liar, and now Damon Feldman is involved. Feldman has made a name for himself by putting ridiculous celebrity fights together and TMZ Sports reported that Feldman was already reaching out to Saudi investors to turn this into an actual event.
Another angle to all of this is that Jake Paul would supposedly love to be the organizer of the fight, but that would mean rivalling Saudi Arabia.
The boss of boxing in Saudi Arabia, Turki Alalshikh, hates Jake Paul a lot