Jose Canseco can only fool so many people so many times.
The former major league slugger, who smashed nearly 500 homers during his MLB career, tried to pull a fast one on the fine folks who paid to see him fight Billy Padden at the Passion nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino recently.
Instead, Canseco sent his twin brother, Ozzie and promoters didn't realize it wasn't Jose until about 30 minutes before the bout was scheduled to go off.
"We discovered the Canseco who showed up was Ozzie when he took off his shirt and didn’t have José’s tattoos on the biceps that appear in our advertising," a Celebrity Boxing representative told the Miami Herald.
This, however, wasn't the only drama involved.
"We made him a transfer of $5,000 when we agreed on the fight," the source said. "Hours before the fight Saturday, we issued a check for the remaining $5,000 in the name of José Canseco, and we delivered it to whom we thought was José Canseco. He declined it and asked that the check be made out to cash, which we did.
"When we discovered that the person to whom we had given the rest of the money was not José but Ozzie, we asked him to return the check, but he refused to do it. We will go to the bank on Monday and put a stop-payment on it."
The same source said that for the weigh-in Friday at the Passion, Ozzie Canseco showed up wearing sunglasses and never took off his T-shirt.
"Nobody would have questioned then that it was not José Canseco," the source said. "He looked identical."
