Fox Plans Celebrity Boxing
Thu Feb 28, 4:26 PM ET
NEW YORK - Tonya and Amy are getting ready to rumble.
The pugilistic divas will face off on "Celebrity Boxing," a Fox special
scheduled to air March 13. The network is billing the bout between Tonya
Harding (news - web sites) and Amy Fisher as "the battle of the bad girls."
Also on the special, former "Brady Bunch" star Barry Williams will be pitted
against Danny Bonaduce, once part of TV's "Partridge Family."
The network said the fights will be real, each lasting three rounds.
Harding gained notoriety when, in January 1994, the figure-skating champ was
involved in a bungled plot hatched by her ex-husband to disable her rival
Nancy Kerrigan (news - web sites). Kerrigan took the silver medal while
Harding, who finished eighth in the Winter Olympics (news - web sites), later
pleaded guilty to conspiracy.
Fisher made headlines as "the Long Island Lolita" when, as a teen-ager having
an affair with auto mechanic Joey Buttafuoco, she shot and wounded his wife
in 1992. Fisher served almost seven years in prison.
A third celebrity-boxing pairing has yet to be announced, Fox said.
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