Lenny Dykstra fails to show up for Jose Canseco fight, says ‘I never agreed to anything’

You’ll be happy to know that the Octomom fight Amy Fisher as scheduled in the big Celebrity Fight Night on Saturday (using comical giant-sized gloves, for extra fun). But the main event never happened. Embattled former Phillie Lenny Dykstra was supposed to fight Jose Canseco, but Dykstra didn’t show up.

And now Dykstra is saying that he never agreed to the fight, that promoter Alki David and Dykstra’s (alleged) business manager Dan Herman used his name without permission, and the whole thing is pretty much news to him. From the Philadelphia Daily News:

“I never agreed to anything,” the embattled Dykstra told us yesterday in an email. “Damon Feldman and Alki David continued to use my name to sell tickets and promote their event up until the last minute. They showed up at my door unexpected, I didn’t even know who they were,” Dykstra explained. He then showed Feldman and David an angry email he sent to Herman Wednesday night, chewing out Herman for booking the fight without his permission.

By phone yesterday, Dykstra denied that Herman was ever his business manager. “If he’s my business manager, I’m a f—in’ ballerina,” he told us.

“That’s why he’s a convicted felon, because he never tells the truth,” Herman said yesterday.

What makes Dykstra look particularly bad — besides the words “celebrity boxing” and “Jose Canseco” — is the fact that he apparently sent several tweets about the fight prior to Saturday:

According to Crossing Broad, though, it is actually Herman who is behind Dykstra’s Twitter account, and Dykstra likely didn’t send the tweets at all.

Got all that?

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Dykstra denies agreeing to fight Canseco [CSN Philly]