{"id":85168,"date":"2025-08-21T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85168\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:44:07","slug":"shaq-accepts-celebrity-boxing-match-to-settle-longtime-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85168\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq accepts celebrity boxing match to settle longtime beef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/84106863007-thunder-pacers-game-218.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shaq talks all things NBA and the sale of the Los Angeles Lakers<\/p>\n<p>Shaq stops by to chat with USA TODAY Sports about all things NBA and to discuss a project with Icy Hot and The Shaquille O\u2019Neal Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Seriously<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/search\/?q=Shaquille+O%27Neal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Shaquille O\u2019Neal<\/a>, the former NBA superstar, says he\u2019s ready to lace them up.<\/p>\n<p>No, not high-top sneakers. Boxing gloves.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neal, 53, has accepted a celebrity fight with Charles \u201cCharlie Mack\u2019\u2019 Alston, a former bodyguard for actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/search\/?q=Will+Smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Will Smith<\/a> and a figure in the hip hop industry who has indicated he is in his 50s.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNgoGIUOqKj\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an Instagram video challenging O\u2019Neal to fight<\/a>, Alston this week explained the two men have a beef dating back to an encounter years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in Dallas doing an autograph signing, and (O\u2019Neal) came and tried to jump in front of the line,\u201d Mack said. \u201cI chopped him in his neck so he could get back.\u2019\u2019 During the interview, Alston sat next to Damon Feldman, CEO of Officially Celebrity Boxing<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neal accepted the fight in the comments section of Alston\u2019s video then <a href=\"http:\/\/statics.teams.cdn.office.net\/evergreen-assets\/safelinks\/2\/atp-safelinks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">posted his own video on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey celebrity boxing and Charlie Mack, I accept,\u2019\u2019 O\u2019Neal said. \u201cYou name the time and place, I\u2019ll be there. Diesel don\u2019t run from nobody.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the video, the 7-foot-1 Hall of Famer also referred to his beef with Alston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You chopped me in my neck, Charlie Mack, that\u2019s why I talk so funny. Payback time,&#8221; O\u2019Neal said. \u201cYou name the time and place, I\u2019ll be there. Diesel don\u2019t run from nobody. \u2026 You better check my police record, Charlie Mack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Mack wrote on his Instagram page, \u201cSo I call Big Fella\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shaq\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@shaq<\/a>\u00a0out yesterday &amp; he accepted as I knew he would!!!! We\u2019ve been talking about it way too long, now we MUST get it ON!!!!!!!!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The latest on Mack&#8217;s Instagram: the image of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNieQ_Gg12s\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fight-style poster featuring O&#8217;Neal and Mack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neal weighed about 325 pounds during his 19-year NBA career. Mack is about 6-foot-6 and 290 pounds, according to a rap song recorded by Will Smith when he was rapping as \u201cThe Fresh Prince.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and you, baby, super heavyweight,\u2019\u2019 Mack said on the video, adding that he was calling O\u2019Neal \u201cSha-knocked out.\u2019 That\u2019s what you\u2019re going to be.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Official Celebrity Boxing has promoted fights featuring retired sports figures such Jose Canseco, Lamar Odom and Tonya Harding.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaq talks all things NBA and the sale of the Los Angeles Lakers Shaq stops by to chat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[448,449,64,63,726,802,447,455,134,45643,45646,322,456,621,637,590,324,44,63932,323,335,63931,14232,85,635,45644,39,441],"class_list":["post-85168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-boxing","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-entertainment","tag-gossip","tag-gossip-u0026-tabloid-news","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-oneal","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-shaquille","tag-shaquille-oneal","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tabloid","tag-top-stories","tag-u0026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}