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`Celebrity Boxing' strikes blow for high ratings, bad taste.

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| March 23, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Michael Hirsley

Please put in Sunday/empty if you don't want. Thanks,

Poor Barry "Brady Bunch" Williams, Rob "Ice, Ice, Baby" Van Winkle and Paula "Bubba, Baby" Jones. Or, at least, insufficiently rich Williams, Van Winkle and Jones.

I can't imagine they got paid enough for their televised humiliation. They were pummeled in a boxing ring by, respectively, Danny "Partridge Kid" Bonaduce, Todd "Diff'rent Strokes" Bridges and Tonya "Olympic Torch" Harding.

Williams, Van Winkle and Jones were particularly underpaid unless they got another paycheck when the whole trash pile of titillation became a rerun Thursday.

Barely a week…

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