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professional boxing debut of former Olympic skater Tonya Harding. An opponent has not yet been lined up for Harding, who has appeared on Fox TV's ''Celebrity Boxing.'' ''It is my goal to be the future undisputed bantam weight champion,'' Harding said. ''My proven athletic ability, as you all know, and competitive nature will help this dream become reality.''



how many of you think Tonya will be able to reinvent herself? i don't think the boozehag can pull it off myself, at least not without a hubcap. :P
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I don't see it happening, not necessarily because she doesn't have the skill or stamina, but rather I don't think that women's boxing is big enough yet for her to make any money, garner any fame, etc.. etc...

I wonder though, if she could make it into professional wrestling as one of the bad girls?

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she DID buy herself some nice fake boobs!



Chuck:

haven't seen them yet, i will wait patiently with enthusiasm! hope she doesn't take a really hard blow to the ol' boobies, one of them may POP! i'd like to see that! i remember a news story about her second marraige, her husband filed assualt charges against her for beating him about the head and shoulder area with a hub cap! :) her second husband must have been a real wus. i can't wait to see her "mix it up" she is going on before mike tyson's return to the ring after a sound whooping by linex lewis not long ago, bet he takes a whooping as well, any takers? :D
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It will be interesting to see whether she can parlay it into a real living.

I agree that she is "re-inventing" her image in an effort to remain a public figure, to stay in the limelight as it were. The one thing she excelled at (skating) doesn't parlay itself into other public-eye, 'lucrative' things very well; e.g., I can name a couple of champion skaters who went into show biz after their skating heyday, but they didn't amount to much. Such is often the fate of sports figures, and those are the ones who didn't suffer the notoriety that Harding has.

Perhaps it is a stepping stone towards becoming a women's sports commentator, and from there, perhaps into other projects. At least I hope so.

Tonya Harding plans boxing career

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PORTLAND, OR (AP) -- Tonya Harding said yesterday she plans to make her debut as a professional boxer while Mike Tyson tries to make a comeback.

Tyson plans to fight Clifford Etienne on Feb. 22 at The Pyramid, in Memphis, Tenn., where he lost to heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis last June.

Harding will be one of the featured bouts among the eight fights on the undercard.

Organizers said an opponent has not yet been lined up.

"We couldn't put out the word we were looking for an opponent for Tonya or else it would have ruined the announcement today," fight promoter Brian Young said.

After giving Paula Jones a good pummeling on the Fox network show "Celebrity Boxing" last March, Harding said she's ready to get into the ring for real.

"It is my goal to be a future, undisputed bantamweight champion. My proven athletic ability and competitive nature will help this dream become a reality," the former figure skater said at a news conference with Tyson in Tunica, Miss.

The last time Harding was in the news was in August.

Harding spent eight days in the Clark County jail for violating probation with a drunken driving arrest.

She was on probation after an ex-boyfriend accused her of assault for hitting him with a hubcap.

Harding, 31, was arrested last April after police measured her blood-alcohol level at 0.16 percent -- twice the legal limit in Washington -- after she ran her pickup into a ditch near Battle Ground.

Harding competed in the Winter Olympics and was the 1991 and 1994 national figure skating champion.

She was stripped of her U.S. title and banned from competitive skating for life for her role in the January 1994 knee-clubbing assault on rival Nancy Kerrigan organized by Harding's ex-husband.

Harding has tried to start a singing career and appeared on NBC's "Weakest Link" show.

The twice-divorced Portland native was evicted in January from her residence in Vancouver, Wash., for failing to pay rent and other debts.
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Organizers said an opponent has not yet been lined up.



i'd bet tequilagirl could whoop that ass! even if tonya had a hubcap! ;) heck, i'd fight her myself, but she'd probably kick my ass, and i'm not willing for that to be publically dissplayed! B| well....if the price was right, i guess a man could "swallow his pride" for the $$$!! :D but i wouldn't go down in the first round either! she's still a booze-hag. sad, she really could've had it all right now, instead she's reduced to degrading herself just to make a buck or two. hmph...oh well! ;) "Those That Can, Will, Those Who Can't, Won't" (that's an old saying that i just made up!") :S c ya on "fight day"
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she DID buy herself some nice fake boobs! Anyone who ever saw that video would agree that it was money well spent.

Chuck



Chuck, if you mean that video, as in wedding nite, eeeeeeeeewwwww, she is one skanky thing, FUGLY breasts, skeezy persona. You very brave man, monkey ONE:P

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She can't wrestle, but you oughtta see her box...

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WHICH ONE?! BWAHAHA!B|
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Chuck, if you mean that video, as in wedding nite, eeeeeeeeewwwww, she is one skanky thing, FUGLY breasts, skeezy persona. You very brave man, monkey ONE:P



No man, you misread me. What I meant to intone was that anyone who saw that skanky ass video you and I are talking about will remember her HORRIBLY ugly pancake titties. My comment was that the money she spent on the new boobs was definitely well spent. She had the new boobs when she did the celebrity boxing thing with Paula Jones.

Chuck

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