Punch Lines-Taped Results Revealed of FOX's Celebrity Boxing Card (Outcomes Fixed)

N.Y. Daily News ^ | March 13, 2002 | Rush and Malloy

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Skip to the next item if you don't want to find out who emerges victorious on Fox-TV's 'Celebrity Boxing' tonight.

We hear, that last week when they stepped into the ring in L.A., disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding walloped Clinton accuser Paula Jones, that Danny Bonaduce ('The Partridge Family') bested Barry Williams ('The Brady Bunch'), and that Todd Bridges ('Diffrent Strokes') melted down Vanilla Ice (aka Bob Van Winkle)

Not that you'll necessarily see those outcomes.

Multiple endings were taped for each fight. For instance, in one version Bonaduce is said to be disqualified. A rep for the show tells us the alternate endings were taped so that the live audience wouldn't know the outcome until it is aired.

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California Athletic Comission is termng this a 'boxing exhibition' not a real womens fight, return of the game show scandals?

[Exigence]

I wish FOX would be as careful with their other programming as they are with the News. Shows like this are in the Jerry Spring genre. Yuck!

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The California Athletic Commission is not terming this an official boxing match bout FOX is promoting it as legit.

[Catspaw]

Um, like I'd watch or that I care. Does the name "Darva Conger" come to mind?

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I don't think Darva was predermined as the winner.

[Catspaw]

It's called "entertainment," even though this is a stretch.

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This is the first time that the California athletic comission has been quoted on the matter, they want nothing to do with this.

[Catspaw]

This is the first time that the California athletic comission has been quoted on the matter, they want nothing to do with this.

Well who does want to have anything to do with this. People may have thought the athletic commission had sanctioned this...this...publicity stunt.

[Psalm 73]

...and then there's the other fight on that card that had half-pint Daschel pummelling Trent Lott - although they didn't have to fix that one.

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FOX is promoting this as a real womans boxing match,

[Postal Worker with a gun]

I suppose you're one of those people who claim that wrestling is fake.

[Alex Murphy]

FOX is promoting this as a real womans boxing match

Of course it is - they're using real women, aren't they?

[Alex Murphy]

...and then there's the other fight on that card that had half-pint Daschel pummelling Trent Lott - although they didn't have to fix that one.

No, but they had to call it off anyway, as Lott kept complaining that his ankles were getting sore.

[truthandlife]

Vanilla Ice??? LOL!!!!!!

How desperate can Todd Brides and Van Winkle get

Posting just for laughs

[nothingnew]

Ya know, I work at home now...but I feel I need to get out, back into the outside job-market, 'cause when I read crap like this, I always think it's FRieday...I'm losing track of time...I think I need to visit the great R.R. and find out how to deal with this...could anyone point me in the direction of the smokers' lounge?....oh,...it's not FRieday...

FMCDH!

[Catspaw]

FOX is promoting this as a real womans boxing match

Oh, yuk. Just when you thought it was safe.....I suppose WWF is *real* too?

I'll make sure I put on a good DVD that night & wish the world--or at least this, a fake boxing match between has-beens and nobodies--away.

[AlGone2001]

I forget, what is it that makes this different from "real" boxing?

[codebreaker]

Wrestling is staged, not fake.

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The potential matchups are endless with B-list celebrities.

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I love it that Vanilla Ice real name is 'Robert Van Winkle.'