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A guilty pleasure Celebrity boxing? Let's get it onPosted: Thursday March 07, 2002 3:53 PMUpdated: Thursday March 07, 2002 3:53 PM
One of my guilty pleasures has been watching a show on MTV called Celebrity Death Match. You might have seen it. Little claymation figures of the famous and infamous battle each other to the claymation death. Mariah Carey against Jim Carrey is a match that comes to mind. A claymation Mills Lane is the referee and a couple of claymation boob announcers resembling Billy Packer, and, say, Jim Nantz do the play-by-play. It's all good fun, if you don't mind the claymation blood and the claymation guts, and now, I guess, some wily promoter has decided to drop the claymation part and have some living, breathing semi notables duke it out for real on a show called Celebrity Boxing. It's going to be on FOX, that PBS for the learning impaired, and Tonya Harding already has been signed to battle Paula Jones, and Greg Brady is matched against Danny Partridge and, oh my, Vanilla Ice will tackle Todd Bridges from Different Strokes. Now, I'm sure a lot of commentators are going to decry this event as the end of civilization as we know it, the cultural death of the Western world, but I am not one of them. I say, along with the claymation or real Mills Lane, "Let's get it on." We've all been looking for a new sport, a sport of our time. This could be it. Think of the possibilities. Bobby Knight against Brian Dennehy. No hitting below the belt. Nolan Richardson against Coach K or Lute Olson. Sarah Hughes against Michelle Kwan. Geno Auriema against Pat Summitt. Kobe Bryant against Reggie Miller. Jon Gruden against Al Davis. Mike Tyson against Lennox Lewis ... Oh, wait a minute. That's a real fight. Mike Tyson against Lennox Lewis. Sorry, you forget sometimes. Leigh Montville's commentaries appear regularly on CNN/Sports Illustrated.
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