America has been licking its lips and tenderly sharpening its pitchforks all week, gearing up for a good old fashioned Roman-style arena match between noted wedding crasher DMX and the most hated man in the country, George Zimmerman. Alas, no one will be micturated upon in a boxing ring anytime soon: the promoter who organized the bout has canceled the event due to a sudden bout of common sense and decency.

Below, you can trace celebrity boxing promoter Damon Feldman's come-to-TwitterJesus moment as it unfolded in real time, via a lot of (now) deleted tweets:

Life can be funny sometimes: one day you're insulting the memory of a young man who was tragically killed because of the color of his skin, the next day you want credit for not accepting millions of dollars for going through with the tasteless event. Life is just kooky like that!