Lamar Odom vs. Aaron Carter results: Ex-NBA star pummels rapper in Celebrity Boxing match

Tom Gatto

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The tale of the tape alone should have kept Friday's Lamar Odom vs. Aaron Carter exhibition fight from happening. Odom had a 10-inch height advantage, an 11-inch reach advantage and a 64-pound weight advantage over Carter.

But box they did in Atlantic City, N.J., and Odom, the former NBA star, had his way with Carter, the rapper.

Not even bulky protective headgear could save Carter from getting knocked into submission. Special guest referee Chuck Liddell finally called the bout in the second round of their scheduled three-rounder.

If you want to see the numbers in all their starkness, then here they are:

And if you want to see a sample of how ridiculous a physical mismatch this was, then here you go:

Looks like Odom still has a pretty good left hand.

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Carter was a good sport about being pummeled.

This match got made, for some reason, last winter under the auspices of Celebrity Boxing founder Damon Feldman. At the time, Feldman predicted a knockout.

Yeah, that was a pretty safe prediction.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.