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Lamar Odom absolutely destroyed Aaron Carter in celebrity boxing match, and people couldn’t look away

The best way to describe Friday’s celebrity boxing match between Lamar Odom and Aaron Carter is like a car crash you can’t turn away from.

The best way to describe Friday night’s celebrity boxing match between former NBA star Lamar Odom and rapper Aaron Carter is like a car crash you can’t turn away from.

The match wasn’t a fair fight from the start with the 6-foot-10, 259-pound Odom squaring off against Carter, who is some 10 inches shorter and 80 pounds lighter. Odom flat-out bullied Carter around the ring, delivering a string of punches that ultimately took him out via TKO in the second round.

It was a miracle that Carter lasted until the second round — although he did land some punches to Odom’s head in the first round — where Odom’s size eventually wore Carter down.

While the boxing match was as ridiculous as you might’ve expected — with one of the highlights being UFC legend Chuck Liddell as the referee — people couldn’t look away.

Lamar Odom is boxing Aaron Carter … and ex-UFC champ Chuck Liddell is the ref

Lamar Odom is boxing Aaron Carter … and ex-UFC champ Chuck Liddell is the ref.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on MMAJunkie. com.

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In this week’s sign of the apocalypse, Chuck Liddell is entering the boxing world … as a referee.

Liddell, a former UFC light heavyweight champion, has signed on to officiate the Celebrity Boxing promotion’s upcoming match between 41-year-old former NBA standout Lamar Odom and 33-year-old singer/rapper/actor Aaron Carter. The event takes place June 11 at Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. It airs on pay-per-view.

If you need extra motivation when considering a potential purchase, the card also will feature 41-year-old music producer Cisco Rosado vs. 52-year-old rapper Peter Gunz. A referee for that match has not been announced.

Liddell, 51, came out of a retirement of more than eight years in 2018 to fight Tito Ortiz in a trilogy bout. After two wins over Ortiz while they were in the UFC, Liddell was stopped with a first-round knockout in their third fight. That gave him six losses in his final seven MMA bouts dating back to 2007, including six by knockout.

He won’t be fighting this time, but it’s not as if he’s uninterested these days. Earlier this week, Liddell said he could be “ready anytime” for a boxing match against Jake Paul. And while it’d be great to say that won’t ever happen, just take a look at the landscape these days. It’s more than possible.

When the bell clangs to start the match, there will be three men in the ring who are alums of “Dancing with the Stars,” which frankly might be a combat sports first.

Odom was a contestant on Season 28 in 2019 and was the third one eliminated with partner Peta Murgatroyd. Carter and Liddell were in the same Season 9 cast in 2009. Liddell and partner Anna Trebunskaya were the fifth team eliminated. Carter and partner Karina Smirnoff fell just short of the final and finished in fifth place.

So if the boxing thing goes awry next month for whatever reason and they have to settle things with a dance-off, the smart money appears to be on Carter.