Ricky Stenhouse Jr. pushing for charity boxing match vs. Carson Hocevar after Mexico City controversy

The feud between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Carson Hocevar may be reaching heights unseen in the NASCAR world. Stenhouse is trying to get a charity boxing match set up between himself and the 22-year-old driver for Spire Motorsports.

Celebrity and charity boxing matches have become a new thing in recent years. Former NFL players, NBA players, and regular old YouTubers with niche audiences have taken to the sport to settle differences and raise money for charity.

So, is that the solution to the Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Carson Hocevar situation? Stenhouse reached out to Spider of Barstool Sports to get the idea rolling. I’m not sure it’s going to happen, but there are plenty of people who would like to see it.

For what it’s worth, Ryan Blaney has his money on Stenhouse. No shock there.

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I’m not sure that Barstool could get the fight sanctioned quickly enough. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. seems to want to get this Carson Hocevar ordeal finished sooner rather than later. He can’t afford another misunderstanding or run-in on the track.

The two drivers have gravitated toward each other in recent weeks. Between Nashville and Mexico City, Hocevar and Stenhouse have commanded headlines and attention. Having a rivalry to talk about is good for the sport. It might not be so good for Hocevar, though.

This weekend at Pocono Raceway could create another moment between the 47 and 77. Hocevar is going to have speed on this large, wide, high-speed track. His best hope is that he’s too fast for Stenhouse to get close to him.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has calmed down, a little bit

The thing about wanting to fight someone, you have to really want to do it. If it doesn’t happen in the heat of the moment, holding onto that energy is tough to do. Then again, the NASCAR schedule doesn’t stop, so there isn’t a lot of time to really calm down as a driver.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. did admit today that he’s calmed down. A little bit. That ass kicking may still be on deck, though.

“I’ve calmed down a little bit. My wife talks me off the ledge sometimes,” Stenhouse said Friday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “She does a good job of that. But it doesn’t change the fact that you get spun out for no reason. Felt like it cost us at least seven spots. We didn’t wreck like at Nashville, but we put ourselves in a spot. We got spun a couple times in that race. And just kept trying to fight back and get our track position. Felt like on that long run there at the end — there was still three or four spots right there in front of us that we could get and we ended up giving up another four or five spots.

“Just frustrating, obviously, when you got someone a lap down that had ran into you a couple weeks before that. 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. Again, I know he wasn’t racing us. But it’s really frustrating for my team and our partners and myself to get spun at a stage like that where there was nothing to be raced for.”