Rodney King To Fight Former Police Officer In "Celebrity Boxing Match" (VIDEO)

This is one of the stranger interviews we've seen in awhile: a Fox affiliate interviewing Rodney King, of Los Angeles riots fame, and former police officer Simon Aouad on the celebrity boxing match they are holding tomorrow. In a spectacularly unsubtle opening, King is introduced, in echoing fight-announcer style, as "no stranger to a nightstick. His opponent, Simon Aouad, is wearing a chain with a big lock around his neck, but it's unclear if there is some larger meaning behind that.

For what it's worth, the anchor doing the interview doesn't bat an eye at discussing the upcoming boxing match between Rodney King and a former police officer.

Let us know your reaction to this spectacle in the comments.

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Comments

[4evryoung]

Okay I fell for it. I got sucked in thinking they meant he would be fighting one of the cops that beat him up. My bad!

[HappyMarsden]

Can't we all just get along?

[Z-Liberator]

Fox is the pinnacle of moral degradation in the U.S.

[PunKinPai]

Let's not be hasty in our judgment. Perhaps Mr. King needs the money. Whatever the reason, I hope he wins and does not get hurt.

[Nunnya]

Is the cop going to lay on the ground and let Mr.King work him over with a club?

[simplelivingmama]

I find this extremely uncomfortable. Living in Pasadena during the riots was something I would rather forget. I am a white woman and it was very clear the cops were out of hand and the race issue was out of control. The attitude of the cop here makes my stomach feel sick all over again.

[SO12]

king should stay and icon ,,,

[Bubba-G]

Holy Crap, this is a depressing comment to just how low things have sunk. Fox and the producers of this event should be sued and jailed - just like those bozo teenagers in San Diego who thought they had a good idea in 2002 by creating those Bum Fight videos and paying homeless drunks $20 or booze to punch each other's lights out.

Sad.

[DimBulb2]

cant we all just get along?

[Phillup Textfield]

NewsCorp is owned by a nihilist who pragmatically throws lowbrow junkfood at the masses to keep the whooping away in their abject poverty and ignorance.

[JScott]

Well after all IT IS Fox.

[Richcelt]

Oh my god! Enough is enough already. And of COURSE it's on FOX. "Have you no decency left?"

[TheFabOne]

You're kidding, right? Whoever said that FOX actually had any decency to begin with?

[lawrencemuh]

Olderman vs Beck

[PunKinPai]

Who's OIderman?

[lawrencemuh]

hey we in a recession.. i'll like to see the two guys that went to Obama's beer summit duke it out.

[Jafo360]

to make light of such an ugly event in our history...to make a mockery of an event that cost lives, and fueled an ugly riot...its degrading on so many levels. To exploit that which dimmed our light is sickening.

And of course its on FOX.

Sometimes, its embarrassing to be a part of this culture.

[derekc06]

Umm... this is Rodney King himself isn't it?