Celebrity Boxing

Celebrity Boxing
Genre	Action Reality Television
Written by	Barry Adelman
Directed by	Sandy Grossman
Presented by	Chris Rose
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	2
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Dick Clark Productions
Release
Original network	FOX

Celebrity Boxing was a FOX television show, in which celebrities whose careers and/or notoriety had diminished were pitted against each other in exhibition boxing matches. The contestants wore headgear during the fights, which were scheduled for three rounds apiece. Two episodes of the show were aired.

In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 6 on its TV Guide's "50 Worst TV Shows of All Time" list.

The first episode aired on March 13, 2002. The fights featured were Danny Bonaduce vs. Barry Williams, Todd Bridges vs. Vanilla Ice and Paula Jones vs. Tonya Harding.

The second episode aired on May 22, 2002. Darva Conger took on Olga Korbut in the opening bout. This fight was followed by Dustin Diamond vs. Ron Palillo and Manute Bol vs. William "Refrigerator" Perry. Joey Buttafuoco took on Joanie "Chyna" Laurer in the main event. "Weird Al" Yankovic was first approached to fight Chyna, but he didn't see it as a positive career move to fight with a woman on national television. Adam Carolla was also approached but also declined to fight. He claimed on loveline that the Fox representative said she'd been "talking smack" about him.

Barry Williams also appeared in this episode, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the first bout, and conducting interviews with some of the fighters.

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