The tensions between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Carson Hocevar continue to escalate and now it might move from the track to the boxing ring. After several on-track incidents, Stenhouse is looking to settle their differences in a different way.
The 36-year-old JTG Daugherty Racing driver has reached out to Spider from Barstool Sports to make it happen. On Barstool’s Rubbin’ Is Racing podcast, the host revealed a conversation they had.
“A driver in Mexico City — I’m not gonna tell you who just yet — asked me to sanction a Rough and Rowdy match. Them vs another driver for charity purposes,” the host said. “Then Ricky came up to me and he said, ‘If you could get me into Rough and Rowdy, we’ll make it happen.’”
This all started after contact in Nashville. They seemed to patch things up with a talk after the race which gave Stenhouse Jr. hope. But in Mexico City the drama flared up again when Hocevar who was a lap down ran into Stenhouse’s car.
“Just frustrating, obviously, when you got someone a lap down that had ran into you a couple weeks before that,” Ricky Stenhouse Jr. said Friday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “Our talk after Nashville, he said, ‘Hey, I’m going to run you a lot different,’ which hey, at Mexico City, he waved me by. I was like, ‘Alright, things are looking up.’ And then, he missed his marks and came from pretty far back and ran into us.”
He proceeded to say that it’s hard on his team and sponsors when a thing like that happens, particularly when there was nothing to race at that time. Athletes and influencers’ boxing matches have gained popularity in recent years where celebrities enter the ring to have fun and to raise money for good causes.
So Stenhouse’s plan falls under that, and it’s already gaining some attention in the NASCAR community. Ryan Blaney even said he’d bet on Stenhouse if the fight happens.
This weekend at Pocono could be the next chapter in their feud. The track is fast and wide so maybe Hocevar has the edge but Stenhouse will be around. Whether they continue to fight on the track or in the boxing ring, fans are paying attention.
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