Chris Rocks Brother Wants a Boxing Match Against Will Smith

Chris Rock’s Brother Wants a Boxing Match Against Will Smith

Chris Rock’s brother Kenny, who just signed a deal with Celebrity Boxing, would gladly get in the ring with Will Smith in the wake of the 2022 Oscars.

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Chris Rock’s younger brother Kenny is more than willing to get in the ring with Will Smith over his now-infamous slap at the 2022 Academy Awards.

At a press event announcing his signing with Celebrity Boxing, Kenny Rock responded to a question from TMZ asking whether he thinks his brother and Will Smith should go toe-to-toe as well. “No they shouldn’t, but I should get in the ring with Will Smith,” he said. When challenged on whether he could beat Smith, Kenny replied, “Yes. No ifs, ands or buts about it.” He declined to make a statement directly to Smith, simply saying, “I’ll let the hands do the talking.”

News of the March 27 incident involving Chris Rock and Will Smith has been near-impossible to avoid. After slapping Rock harshly across the face during the internationally televised Oscars ceremony, Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy later announced Smith would also be banned from future Oscars events for 10 years. Kenny Rock, however, has doubts about whether it will stick. “Well, we have to see if he’s actually gonna get the 10-year ban,” he said. “They might say a 10-year ban and after three years they’ll think that we may have forgot about it and slide him in there after two years, after three years, after five years. So we have to make sure these people do what they say they’re gonna do.”

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Smith issued a public statement the day after the incident apologizing for his behavior, describing it as “unacceptable and inexcusable” and calling himself “a work in progress.” The actor directly addressed Rock in the statement, but Kenny said he doesn’t think it was enough. “I doubt it very seriously,” he said when asked whether he thinks his brother accepted the apology, which was posted on Instagram.

This isn’t the first time Kenny has come out in defense of Chris. “He should have been escorted out of there,” he said soon after the Oscars incident. “I hold them accountable for that. He could have went up there and did anything you wanted to my brother. It could have been much worse than what he did.” Kenny admitted he watched the footage “over and over,” saying, “It eats at me watching it … because you’ve seen a loved one being attacked and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Kenny doesn’t yet have an opponent for his first boxing match, but he said he’s open to brawling with “any and everybody — anybody willing to step up [and] take on the challenge.”

Source: TMZ

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