#NBA #MMA Shaq Accepts Challenge To Fight Jose Canseco

Shaquille O’Neal won countless battles under the basket in his brilliant NBA career but is ready to get more physical, saying he is willing to face former MLB All-Star Jose Canseco in a mixed martial arts bout.

Canseco, 47, whose baseball comeback bid with the Quintana
Roo Tigres of the Mexican League stalled last week when he was
banned for declining to take a doping test, has been calling out
the four-time NBA champion in messages on his Twitter account.

“I challenged him a long time ago. If he wants it done, he
knows where to find me,” O’Neal, who was listed at 7-foot-1
(2.16 m) and 325 pounds (147 kilograms) in his playing career,
told Reuters on Tuesday in a telephone interview from Florida to
promote Dove Men + Care skin product.

“He can be high off whatever, and I’ll be high off Frosted
Flakes,” O’Neal, 40, said about the popular breakfast cereal.

O’Neal retired from the National Basketball Association
(NBA) last year and is due to receive his doctorate degree in
May from Barry University’s School of Education in Miami.

Canseco, who admitted to using steroids in his Major League
Baseball (MLB) career and wrote books about their widespread
use, said he was advised against taking the doping test because
of prescribed medicine he takes to produce testosterone.

The Cuban-born Canseco has used Twitter to suggest a
four-man MMA tournament in Las Vegas titled “Beef Bash 1″
featuring him against O’Neal, and former National Football
League player Herschel Walker against former boxing champion
Mike Tyson.

Canseco lost his first MMA bout in 77 seconds against
7-foot-2 (2.18 m) South Korean Hong Man Choi in 2009.

WRITTEN BY Larry Fine (Reporting By Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Frank Pingue) & FULL STORY HERE