There was nothing sweet in the science. Before the celebrity aspect came into play, white-collar boxing events at Gleasons Gym in Brooklyn, New York one of boxings most venerated training grounds began to spring up in the late 1980s. In 1986, Bonaduce, then a radio deejay in Phoenix, made headlines again when he was arrested for slugging a transvestite prostitute. The increasingly hard-to-watch sideshow is best summed up by Bill Simmons' running diary of the show that ran on ESPN's Page 2 and by The Ringer's detailed look back at the dangerously one-sided fight between Ron "Horshack" Palillo ("Welcome Back, Kotter") and Dustin "Screech" Diamond ("Saved by the Bell"). And if Joseph visited Danny's workplace at all, he didn't after season 2; he was banned from the set. ", "In San Francisco, they didn't have a pear tree, so I laid on a hammock between two palms and became a partridge between a pair of trees," he says. Two episodes of the show were aired. He got belligerent, and he got hit in the nose. Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul: Which other celebrities have fought in While the antics and promotion are similar, albeit on a dramatically larger scale, KSI-Logan Paul 2 brings several key elements that were sorely missing from the equation: a gigantic built-in audience, a proven commodity and the added element of professionalism. Celebrity boxing promoter accused of fight fix Check out the show FREE every morning on KZOK just get here by 6am - 10am and click on the bouncing radio at the top of the page. Around the same time, as reality TV was exploding in the United States, Fox network had a similar idea: a show simply called "Celebrity Boxing," which would become the most famous (and infamous) instance of the trend. Its a professional rematch of an amateur bout that drew hundreds of thousands of buys on YouTube pay-per-view last August, opening a lot of eyes to the overwhelming moneymaking potential such a fight could have. "I almost went out of my mind, because nobody gave him any credence. The main event of the evening pitted Tonya Harding, the former figure skater infamous for her role in the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan ahead of the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, against Paula Jones, whose sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton had embroiled her into Ken Starr's impeachment proceedings.