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# Celebrities predict outcome of boxing match tonight
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/celebrities-predict-outcome-of-boxing-match-tonight/
- Published: 2002-03-13T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:08:19.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By SEAN DALY Special to the Daily Press*

“I grew up thinking I could beat up anybody,” said former Partridge Family star Danny “Boom Boom” Bonaduce (5’ 7”,155 lbs.), who climbed into the ring last Thursday night in Los Angeles to battle Brady Bunch actor Barry Williams (5’ 11”, 185 lbs.) in the first match-up of Fox Television's “Celebrity Boxing.”

> “I grew up thinking I could beat up anybody.” — — DANNY BONADUCE Former Partridge Family star

The special airing tonight at 9 p.m. also features embattled Diff’rent Strokes actor Todd Bridges taking on rapper Vanilla Ice and Olympic skater Tonya Harding slugging it out with Presidential accuser Paula Jones.

In preparation for the big fight, Bonaduce, 42, worked out daily at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, while continuing his duties as morning disc jockey on LA radio station KYSR-FM and co-host of the syndicated television program, “The Other Half.”

“Three days a week I came to the gym twice a day, then on the weekends I would run,” he revealed. “I have a whole gym at my home as well.”

This was not Bonaduce’s first well-publicized fight. In 1994, he won a charity bout with singer Donny Osmond and in 1991, he was arrested for knocking out a transvestite hooker in Arizona.

“That was my first unsanctioned fight,” he laughed. “I was a winner by a TKO. Usually, when you win a boxing match, they don’t make you pay to repair the other guy’s nose.”

Williams, 47, knew he was facing a tough opponent.

“Danny’s an expert in Karate and he’s been boxing for several years,” he noted prior to the fight.

“I have to use what I have going for me, which is height and reach and weight. The best thing for me to do is keep him outside and not let him punch.”

Williams received support in his corner from Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough and donated his entire appearance fee to the singer’s Lupus charity.

Bonaduce — who was joined in the ring by his sparring partner, “The Other Half” co-host Mario Lopez — helped recruit Bridges (5’11”, 183 lbs.) for the evening’s second match-up with Vanilla Ice (6’, 180 lbs.).

“At first I was supposed to fight Coolio, then it was Hammer, then it was Luther Campbell from 2 Live Crew,” said the rapper, 32, whose biggest hit, “Ice Ice Baby” topped the charts in 1990.

Now a building contractor in Texas, Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, continues to tour in support of his most recent CD, “Bi-Polar.”

While Ice admits that fighting Bridges “looks like a lot of fun,” the celebrity he really wants to take a whack at is Eminem.

“I’m 180 pounds, he’s like 80,” Ice laughed. “People would sh-- to see that!”

The third and most anticipated contest of the night pitted Harding against Jones, who was added to the card when “Long Island Lolita” Amy Fisher was KO’d from competing by her parole officers.

“I gotta go with Tonya on this one,” Bridges predicted prior to the six-minute, three-round contest. “Paula Jones probably doesn’t know what she got herself into.”

Williams agreed: “I think Tonya is the bigger B.”

Fisher’s Ex, Joey Buttafucco sat ringside with wife Mary Jo for all three bouts, and offered to fight Bonaduce at a later date.

No word if he will accept, but the fiery red-head told us: “There are certain people out there I would like to fight. Mostly other disc jockeys. I can’t think of one disc jockey off hand that doesn’t deserve a good beating. Then other daytime talk show hosts. I want to fight the entire cast of The View.”

(Sean Daly is a local entertainment writer and writes for Showtime Entertainment).

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 13, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/031302.pdf?ref=smdp.com)