# No Boxing for John Bobbitt!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253 "2002-05-15T19:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/1 "2002-05-15T19:52:37Z")
John Bobbitt got arrested and now cannot participate in Celebrity Boxing 2!! He was going to fight Joey Buttafuoco, in what would ahve been the greatest thing ever shown on TV!! Dang it!! [Story](http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52808,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/2 "2002-05-15T20:47:33Z")
_[insert “below the belt” joke here]_ ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/3 "2002-05-15T21:34:57Z")
And Joanie Laurer, aka Chyna, is taking his place. ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2002, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/4 "2002-05-15T22:50:36Z")
I think the absolute worst part is that the man’s claim to fame involves having his penis cut off. Any news story involving him has to include it. I’m not saying they shouldn’t, just that there are some things you just wouldn’t want to be remembered for. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/5 "2002-05-16T04:07:29Z")
Um, not to burst anyone’s brain cells, but is anyone concerned at all by the fact that he probably _raped_ his wife? And, as far as I know, wasn’t even charged for it? If the allegation is true, there is absolutely nothing funny about this bit of news. I say this man doesn’t deserve to make another penny until he’s STOOD TRIAL for his alleged crime. (Unless he already has…god, it’s so hard to pick out the hard news from the endless cascade of brain-dead, unfunny severed penis jokes…) ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/6 "2002-05-16T04:35:21Z")
Ooh Joey’s gonna get it. He should back out. Now. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/7 "2002-05-16T04:42:54Z")
What kills me is that Bobbitt was arrested for assaulting his new wife! Uh, excuse me, but what woman marries a man who was so cruel to his previous wife that she felt her only recourse was to cut his dick off? I mean, unless you were living on another planet, how could you not know what kind of creep he is? Sometimes I wonder if God isn’t sitting there on high, looking down at the Earth and thinking, “I should have drowned the lot of them at birth.” ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/8 "2002-05-16T06:23:24Z")
Ooh Joey’s gonna get it. He should back out. Now. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/9 "2002-05-18T00:03:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DKW \* > **If the allegation is true, there is absolutely nothing funny about this bit of news. I say this man doesn’t deserve to make another penny until he’s STOOD TRIAL for his alleged crime.** Funny, I thought it was “innocent _until_ proven guilty.” But yeah, I still hope Chyna wipes the floor with him. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/10 "2002-05-18T01:24:51Z")
You’d think a guy like that would want to tread reeeeeeaaly lightly around the missus, wouldn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![labboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@labboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labboy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-boxing-for-john-bobbitt/109253/11 "2002-05-18T02:13:12Z")
Of course it’s also possible that his wife was bat-crap crazy.