Actors, who have both played boxers on screen, offered chance to do battle in charity celebrity match next year
It looks set to be the biggest celebrity boxing match since Ricky Gervais took on Grant Bovey: a US promoter has offered Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg $1m to fight each other in the ring in Las Vegas next year.
For Hollywood A-listers who can command salaries of several million dollars per movie that may not seem like a huge purse, but Damon Feldman of the Hollywood Boxing Federation is counting on the actors' sense of generosity: all the money would go to their favourite charities.
Smith and Wahlberg are obvious candidates to fight for Feldman, who has staged a series of celebrity matches in the past, because both have trained in the pugilistic arts for appearances on film. Smith famously bulked up to play Muhammad Ali in biopic Ali while Wahlberg is appearing as boxer "Irish" Micky Ward in Oscar-tipped David O Russell film The Fighter.
Both are also around the same age ? Smith is 42 and Wahlberg 39 ? though there might be some disparities in terms of each's weight and height: Smith is 1.88m (6ft 2in) and appeared as a heavyweight in Ali, while Wahlberg is 1.75m (5ft 9in) and is a welterweight in The Fighter.
"This will be a great opportunity for both stars to fight in the Superbowl of Hollywood boxing and to donate millions to their favourite charities," Feldman told RadarOnline.com. "It would be a great event too. Can you imagine?"
The promoter ? who has previously put on fights featuring rather lower-calibre celebrities, including The Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce and Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael ? said the actors would only be required to fight three one-minute rounds.
"We don't think these two are going to rip each others heads off," Feldman said. "We're just hoping they get into the ring and have a little fun duking it out."
The fight, if Smith and Wahlberg agree to it, would take place in Las Vegas on 26 February 2011.
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