A few hundred students congregated in Free Speech Alley Friday to see a battle for all time – Jesus vs. Satan. Local humor Web Site Girlspoop.com organized the fight as a publicity stunt. Two LSU students dressed as Lucifer and the Lamb of God and went head-to-head in a mock boxing match.
Sean Young, a computer science senior and the self-described CEO of the comedy team, promoted the event as “the fight of the millennium until the LSUPD comes and breaks it up.”
Jesus Christ, played by Trent Bland, a psychology junior, wore a white toga with a wire halo along with hand and head gear. The savior waited impatiently in the middle of the crowd, shadow boxing to stay warm before the battle.
At one point Young, who commentated for the match, yelled to the crowd that the holy one was getting antsy and that “Jesus needs a cigarette!”
Before Satan made his entrance, Young also told the crowd that “If you are Judas, do not call the LSUPD!”
After much delay and unrest from a growing mob of people in front of the Union Colonnade Theater, Morgan Griffin, an ISDS freshman, emerged from the Union McDonald’s dressed as the devil, with an entourage in tow and a bawdy crowd booing his entrance. He was decked out in red body paint and an unrelenting rage toward the chosen one.
Satan, pointing to both of his biceps, chastised Christ by saying “Jesus, you only have these two things to worry about.”
The fight only went three rounds, but Jesus unexpectedly took quite a lashing from the dark lord – going down early in the first two rounds.
However, Jesus made a comeback late in the third round when a member of his training team gave him a can of spinach. In a slow motion fight sequence, Jesus knocked Satan down. After a count of 10 from Young, the Son of God was named the champion for eternity.
LSUPD did not show up and following the fight the large crowd quickly dispersed.