A 'yuge' duel might have come to a television near you.

In a small saga at the end of last week, a debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump (who sadly does now have enough delegates for a first ticket nomination, thanks to uncommitted delegates from North Dakota and Pennsylvania pledging to support him), and Democratic candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders flared into life almost as quickly as it died out.

It all began Wednesday evening when Jimmy Kimmel asked Trump if he was willing to debate Senator Sanders ahead of the June 7th primaries, specifically the one in California. Trump answered, "Yes I am, how much is he going to pay me." He said that if they did it, there would be such high ratings, that they should get paid and give the money to charity. This was clarified in the ensuing news cycle, continuing to say he would "love to" debate Sanders, but he named a steep price tag for it: $10 or $15million.

Senator Sanders jumped upon the idea, enthused about the chance to debate the Republican rival. The media was also all over it, bringing up the possibility at least once an hour, complete with clips from both sides' rallies in which they and their supporters were in favor of such an event.

Yet on Friday, Trump backed out. He released a statement that said, "Based on the fact that the Democratic nominating process is totally rigged and Crooked Hillary Clinton and (Debbie) Wasserman-Schultz will not allow Bernie Sanders to win, and now that I am the presumptive Republican nominee, it seems inappropriate that I would debate the second-place finisher,"

Yet these words do not seem credible in any way. Sanders was still seen as the second-place candidate on Wednesday when Trump supported the idea. It is far likelier that he realized that he would lose, and badly, as Chris Matthew reiterated on his show Friday. Trump has never cared about whether something is appropriate or not, so thinking that debating Sanders was "inappropriate" is unlikely.

One can only imagine what a debate between the two 'outsiders' would look like. Would it be about serious, substantive issues? Or would it look more like this?

Unfortunately, it seems that we will not know what a true Sanders-Trump debate would look like, thanks to Trump once again reneging on something he had previously supported. Perhaps we will get lucky, and he'll renege on his candidacy for president.

America could only benefit if that was the case.