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Baitball Blogger

(46,703 posts)
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:03 PM Feb 2014

George Zimmerman ready to rumble: 'Boxing isn't new to me'

This makes me sick to my stomach. To me, this just confirms that he was the aggressor against Trayvon Martin.

Article below:

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"Boxing isn't new to me," Zimmerman told Radar Online in an article posted on the celebrity news outlet's website last week.

Zimmerman began boxing long before the February 2012 incident with 17-year-old Martin that drew national attention, he told Radar Online. The case polarized the nation around issues of racial justice, self defense and gun control.

Zimmerman's plans to enter the ring come after he successfully capitalized on his celebrity in December by auctioning a flag painting on eBay, selling the artwork for just over $100,000.

Some of the proceeds from the event would go to an animal rescue charity, Zimmerman told Radar Online, but he declined to name the organization.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-boxing-20140201,0,1064697.story



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George Zimmerman ready to rumble: 'Boxing isn't new to me' (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 OP
The animal that the proceeds are going to is Zimmerman himself... Earth_First Feb 2014 #1
So is he lying now? gollygee Feb 2014 #2
Exactly. How could anyone have missed this. Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #3
^^^^ This ^^^^ alittlelark Feb 2014 #5
+1 Blue_Tires Feb 2014 #7
Have any of his high profile supporters commented, lately? Limbaugh? Hannity? Fridays Child Feb 2014 #4
yeah he is a tough man, a guy who BOXES Skittles Feb 2014 #6
Zimmerman is bad enough...the absolute shitheads who defended him on the Internet alcibiades_mystery Feb 2014 #11
oh fuck them; they are racist cowards Skittles Feb 2014 #13
REALLY? RandySF Feb 2014 #8
much like lying. nt NoGOPZone Feb 2014 #9
I wish that murdering bastard would crawl back into his hole & disappear. catbyte Feb 2014 #10
This man will go down in textbooks as the premier case study for socipathy Scootaloo Feb 2014 #12
Give him a TV show already. jsr Feb 2014 #14

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)
1. The animal that the proceeds are going to is Zimmerman himself...
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:07 PM
Feb 2014

I really wish that this guy would just fade into irrelevancy.

However, Zimmerman has a cult following that have created a personality of sorts that only emboldens these stunts.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
2. So is he lying now?
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:08 PM
Feb 2014

Or was he lying when he said he couldn't fight at all and therefore was overpowered by a much smaller teenage kid to the point where he had to shoot him?

Skittles

(153,154 posts)
6. yeah he is a tough man, a guy who BOXES
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:26 PM
Feb 2014

but needed a GUN to confront a skinny unarmed TEENAGER - Zimmerman the coward can FUCK HIMSELF along with all his GUN HUMPING DEFENDERS

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
11. Zimmerman is bad enough...the absolute shitheads who defended him on the Internet
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:46 PM
Feb 2014

(including on this very board) are in some ways worse, since they seem to be just plain old racist assholes.

All of them.

Zimmerman defenders were and are assholes to a person.

catbyte

(34,376 posts)
10. I wish that murdering bastard would crawl back into his hole & disappear.
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 10:43 PM
Feb 2014

What a creep. And a menace to society.

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