Promoter Damon Feldman gets cold feet, cancels George Zimmerman vs. DMX fight, sends out tweet explaining why

The streets were talking and after much public backlash, Damon Feldman has decided to pull the plug on the celebrity boxing match between rapper DMX and George Zimmerman.

Yesterday (Feb. 8), Feldman took to Twitter to announce that the fight would not be going down. He sent out this tweet:

"The George Zimmerman fight is canceled I'm sorry for anyone I hurt with this but this was a very big opportunity thank you."

Followed by:

"I want to thank everyone for the good n bad comments I've made the choice to cancel the fight w George Zimmermann more to life then money."

Feldman was highly criticized for billing the fight as a "celebrity" match. The public was upset that such a title was to Zimmerman considering the reason for his name making headlines.

A petition was filed to stop the fight.

It seems like Feldman has an ear to the ground and is listening to the voice of the people. He wanted to assure the public that it wasn't Zimmerman who backed out of the fight tweeting out this message:

"It was my decision to cancel the george zimmerman fight it was worth a lot of money to me but people's feelings meant more to me."

Feldman also claimed that the fight was worth a million dollars.

"I walked away from av million dollar payday with this fight but to be honest I'd rather be happy and make people happy thank you," Feldman tweeted.

What do you think of Damon Feldman canceling the fight between DMX and George Zimmerman?