Celebrity Boxing is Wrong

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On TV right now: a "celebrity" boxing match between Danny Bonaduce ("The Partridge Family") and Barry Williams ("The Brady Bunch"). What kinds of twisted fuXors thought this would be a good idea?!

― geeta, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Holy shit! Now it's Vanilla Ice vs. Todd Bridges (Willis from "Diff'rent Strokes")!

― geeta, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

uh, is this for real??

― dave k, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sure is. Next up: Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is like some sort of jokey, snarky, dumb-ass TV show me and my undergrad friends would have thunk up after getting bonged out. Only none of us owned a TV network, and if we did we'd probably never think to actually air something like this.

I blame Australia.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How exactly is this a bad idea?

― Kris, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I echo Kris. I'm just pissed that I missed it.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you think there would be much interest in a pay-per-view of Tonya Harding having sex with OJ? Everyone gets paid, nobody gets hurt, and the world goes to sleep happy. I want 2% for suggesting it.

― dan, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've already seen Tonya having sex and I have absolutely no interest in seeing the Juice juice.

― Kris, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, it is so very, very right.

― Dan Irons, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you think people like punishing tragic celebrities because we hate them for letting us down? We want them to have unbelievable, perfect lives so when real life intrudes - when these golden calves do something human like going into debt or getting hooked on pep pills or, i don't know, orchestrating an assault on a fellow figure skater - we hate them for not living out our dreams properly. Seeing famous junkies, debtors, and failures beaten and humiliated is so much more satisfying than seeing ordinary everyday junkies, debtors, and failures beaten and humiliated.

― fritz, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We've probably discussed *this* before, but what are ile's fantasy celebrity bouts? Who you wanna see poundin' the crap outta who?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's just taking Celebrity Death Match to its logical and less deadly conclusion.

― JM, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what this has to do with tragic celebrities, other than they are more likely to accept bouts cause they need the cash. I'd be just as willing to see Regis Philbin fight Alex Trebek, neither of whom I'd classify as tragic.

― Kris, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what this doesn't have to do with tragic celebrities - do you think any of them would do this if they weren't desperate for cash or one last minute in the limelight, no matter how degrading?

― fritz, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(by the way Kris, I'm not trying to give people a guilt trip for watching it or laughing about it. I would have watched it. I think it's funny. They've all done more degrading shit for money than this in the past and they could all have said no. Just wondering about the boxing as an example of the whole cycle of build-em-up&rip-'em-down fandom)

― fritz, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone have ideas for the sequel that Fox will undoubtedly air? Personally, I'd be pretty psyched to see Punky Brewster kick Gary Coleman's ass.

― geeta, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to box Thom Yorke, I'd knock his face back into shape.

― chris, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haven't you ever boxed anyone, fritz, even sort of play boxed a sibling or friend or something? It's fun, not degrading. Would celebrity one-on-one basketball be less degrading? What's the difference, other than the fact that I wouldn't watch the latter (I didn't watch the celebrity boxing either, mind you, but I would have if I was near a tv). It's not like they were dueling with pistols or something.

― Kris, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's degrading because they were chosen to do this for their sheer punchability. They are people the public wouldn't mind see kicking the shit out of each other, I really don't think people are tuning in to see them have a little fun.

― fritz, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

oh no!! i just saw an ad for the celebrity boxing sequel happening next week and no they didn't take any of our supercool suggestions, those bastards!!

― geeta, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

screech vs horshack!! they must've run out of money!

― geeta, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I want pro-celebrity boxing. I'd be particularly keen to see Mike Tyson vs Jamie Oliver, for example. To the death, preferably. Obviously it's not a terribly fair contest, so we'd provide a club with rusty nails for Mike Tyson to use.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

poor poor Jamie.

― chris, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

COREY HAIM VS COREY FELDMAN FITE

― chaki, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

where else can Jose Canseco get his ass handed to him?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 21 July 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

Any barfight?

― Alex in SF, Monday, 21 July 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

well those wdnt be on TV!

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 21 July 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

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