A shocking event took place at the 2022 Academy Awards: Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. This led to the SlapFIGHT Championship offering both Chris and Will an opportunity to compete in an exhibition match. They will be slapping each other for a specified amount of time until one of them conforms or falls asleep.
I made an offer,” SlapFIGHT Championship CEO JT Tilley told TMZ Sports. “I’d love to host an exhibition match between them two and make it as safe as possible.” On Tuesday, the SlapFight Instagram account asked fans who they thought would win in a fight between Smith and Rock. Most fans believe Rock will win. “Our fans believe Chris Rock will win because he obviously has a strong chin,” Tilley says.
Smith was offended by a joke Rock made about Pinkett Smith’s hair loss. In 2018, she revealed that she had alopecia, the main symptom of which is hair loss. Smith apologized to Rock on Monday and said that violence in any form is poisonous and destructive. He said he lost control at the Academy Awards because jokes about his medical condition are part of his job and one about Jada’s medical condition was too much for him to bear.
Chris Rock addressed the incident for the first time:
Chris Rock returned to the Boston stage for his first show in a while and was met with two standing ovations that lasted several minutes.
“How was your weekend?” he joked, drawing laughter from the audience. “I don’t have a lot of s*** to say about that, so if you came here for that,” he said, pausing before the audience bursted in laughter. “I had written a whole show before this weekend. I’m still processing what happened, so at some point I’ll talk about that s***. It’ll be serious. It’ll be funny, but right now I’m going to tell some jokes.”
