“Kendrick Lamar must’ve gotten surgery!”
The greatest surfer of all time, Kelly Slater, is again in the news after he inadvertently became involved in the UFCs latest controversy when the far right sports outfit incorrectly identified champion boxer Terence Crawford as Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar.
As the camera panned across the celebs in the ringside seats at UFC Noche, held at the Sphere in Las Vegas, all in their ten-thousand dollar seats to watch a little Georgian wrestler maul a beloved American world champion, Crawford, seated next to Saudi boxing promotor Turki Alalsheikh, was labelled Kendrick Lamar.
A social media storm soon followed with Crawford admitting, “I just wasn’t taking any notice of it, and then I started seeing the pictures on my phone and everyone laughing.”
Crawford even claimed the mis-ID was deliberate.
“To be honest, I think it was intentionally done. Just for laughters, because how can you get us mixed up? But all in all, it was funny to me.”
UFC head Dana White responded with, “He did kind of look like Kendrick Lamar, though let’s not fuck around, he did kind of look like Kendrick Lamar!”
There are some striking similarities.
Both men are thirty-seven, both are short as hell, five six (Kendrick) and five eight, both have strong jawlines and both, typically, have short hair and facial hair. And, as noted on Twitter, “They both have a similar skin tone, which might be described as dark brown, reflecting their African American heritage.”
Kelly Slater, one row back, wasn’t as easily fooled, “Kendrick Lamar must’ve gotten surgery!” wrote the champ.
It was an eventful night for Slater.
Heady days. Like 1968 etc.
