What has happened to Tonya Harding? It’s been 12 years since she went mafia on Nancy Kerrigan’s knee. Talk about big time made for television event. How big was it? Women’s figure skating in 1994 is the sixth most watched television event in history. To give you some perspective, at the top is the finale of M*A*S*H, an episode of Roots, a couple Super Bowls, then it’s women’s figure skating. That’s it and I imagine it’ll stay in that order for a long long time.
It was Jerry Springer on ice. If your memory is too fuzzy then the Washingtonpost.com has compiled an extensive time line of those events starting with attack.
Tonya hasn’t had it easy since those Olympics. She’s had a long run-in list with the law. She even had her wedding night sex tape leaked. This way before the internet was huge, so it saved thousands of horny curious boys from being scarred for life. I would admit I owned a Milli Vanilli and New Kids on the Block tape combined before I’d admit I bought her sex tape.
Then’s she’s had a less than stellar boxing career. Most would remember her fight with Paula Jones in “Celebrity Boxing Match”.
She was scheduled to make an appearance in a March 11 Jacksonville, FL boxing event called “Guns and Hoses”. The annual boxing event between Jacksonville firefighters and police officers was to have Tonya Harding take on one of Jacksonville’s finest, Officer Cristina “Rosie” Rosario.
Now she’s pulled out of the fight for an unusual reason
It turns out the First Coast will not be getting a visit from a boxer with a well-known past.
Former figure skater Tonya Harding was scheduled to take place in the Guns and Hoses boxing match between Jacksonville Police and Firefighters.
She cancelled because she’s technically a heavyweight now, weighing in at 170 pounds. That’s too heavy for the First Coast bouts.
In the picture above she’s a reported 125 pounds. ET Online did a story on her and has a recent picture of her now. They gave her a makeover on an episode but she looked the same. That’s just mean.
She was big news in 1994 at the Olympics. Now she’s just big. Funny how karma works sometimes.
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talk about going off the deep end.
On the picture, look at the other female boxer on the left, sitting down. WOW!
Is that Roger “Blind Date” Lodge officiating the fight? Sweet.
No one can take away that Tonya Harding was the better technical skater than that whining, horse-faced, unpersonable Nancy Kerrigan. The oustanding triple axel that Tonya Harding successfully jumped in 1991 was only repeated by one other American skater successfully, 14 years later- Kimmie Messner.
Being banned from U.S. figure skating by the U.S. figure skating association has meant that the livelihood that Harding trained for since the age of 3, was taken away from her.
She’s never given up on life though and is doing well in boxing now, living dept-free and despite the huge doses of prednisone for her severe asthma (side effect – major weight gain) still has atheletic ability. Most of us wouldn’t be able to survive in the public eye, much less play the ‘heel’, as she has. I admire her, when she was allowed to be a figure skater and since then, as a boxer.
Yeah GreenEyes, too bad she decided to throw that all away by having someone whack her opponent in the legs with a steel bar.
125 pounds, 170 pounds. Does it also mention she happens to be FIVE-FOOT-TWO? With implants yet.
Prednizone? You mean Bud-izone. 170? try 190.
And no one made her give up shit, she threw it away lock stock and barrel. And yes, Nancy K is an asshole.
There’s just Ton’a Harding.
WTF!?
damn,,,,,,,,shes fine,,,,,,,,,,,i”d do her
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