Reality television star and Danville native Jonny Fairplay was brutalized, finally walking into a stiff right uppercut by Michael Lohan roughly 20 seconds into the second round to stop their celebrity boxing match on Saturday night at the airport Ramada Hotel in Philadelphia.
Fairplay, best known for being a contestant on Survivor: Pearl Islands, was dizzied after being knocked to the canvas for the third time in 80 seconds in what was scheduled to be a three-round, 3-minute Celebrity Boxing Federation lightweight championship bout – prompting the referee to end the fight.
“The room is spinning,” Fairplay said he told the referee twice, each time after being asked if he was OK to continue.
“That’s not the answer I’m looking for,” the ref said.
“Then you need to ask different questions,” Fairplay replied.
And that was the end.
Fairplay, 35, measured 5-8 and 137 pounds at weigh-in Friday night, or an inch shorter and more than 30 pounds lighter than Lohan, the 49-year-old father of actor and singer Lindsay Lohan.
Michael Lohan, who improved his boxing record to 2-0 and claims he "could have easily gotten my black belt" in three martial arts, planted Fairplay twice in the first round, using a pair of left hooks to level the roundly despised reality TV celebrity just 20 seconds into the fight. Fairplay fell again 1 second later, tripping over his own feet.
Lohan shrugged as Fairplay struggled to get up and the first round ended without another punch being thrown.
"I was throwing a punch and he ducked right into it," Lohan said, speaking about the second-round uppercut that ended the fight during a telephone interview Monday morning with the Danville Register & Bee. "I wasn't throwing any big punches or anything."
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