{"id":429368,"date":"2010-03-15T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-227972:1"},"modified":"2010-03-15T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:34:37","slug":"canseco-wants-a-fight-how-about-one-with-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429368","title":{"rendered":"Canseco wants a fight; how about one with this guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, baseball player-turned-wannabe fighter Jose Canseco said that he&#8217;ll spend a day with anyone if they&#8217;re willing to pay him $1,000. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoseCanseco\" >He said on Twitter<\/a> that, &quot;We can go bowling, work out, we can spar MMA-style, play any sport.&quot; Travis, a 28-year-old graphic designer wants to take him up on that. (Warning: there&#8217;s a bit of NSFW language in the video.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IGSvi7dhlSk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, as a young man, Canseco stood up Travis at an autograph signing, and he wants revenge. Now, Travis is hardly <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter\/post\/Canseco-won-t-let-it-go-now-says-he-ll-train-wi?urn=mma,217954\" >training with Cesar Gracie<\/a>, and points out that he isn&#8217;t exactly in fighting shape.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn&#8217;t stop him from starting the website, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/iwanttofightjosecanseco.tumblr.com\/\" >I Want to Fight Jose Canseco.<\/a>&quot; Travis said that he will gladly pay the $1,000 for the chance to fight Canseco. Since Canseco&#8217;s only pursuit is money, why not give Travis the chance? <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter\/post\/The-masses-want-Canseco-versus-Walker-This-webs?urn=mma,226698\" >It&#8217;s no better than the Herschel Walker bout<\/a> that Canseco has been trying to get.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to reader Tyler for the heads-up.&nbsp;<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, baseball player-turned-wannabe fighter Jose Canseco said that he&#8217;ll spend a day with anyone if they&#8217;re willing to pay him $1,000. He said on Twitter that, &quot;We can go bowling, work out, we can spar MMA-style, play any sport.&quot; Travis, a 28-year-old graphic designer wants to take him up on that. (Warning: there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}