Boxer you think needs a good movie?

To each his own. I personally find a story about an ex con working his tail off to become one of the greatest technicians of all time an interesting story but most people would rather watch Spiderman 33 or Batman returns for the 90th time. I could give zero ****s.

 

A movie about the relationship between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. It would need to be fair - Yes it would display Muhammad going over the top with his verbal lashings of Joe but would also show Frazier's negative points i.e. his inconsistent attitude towards Ali - one day making out all's well in his relationship with his biggest rival then bringing up all the bile and bitterness seemingly the next day.

The film could end with Muhammad and Joe making their peace in 2002.

 

Idris Elba would do a superb Nigerian accent. He's good with voices.

 

too many fighters here don't have the FULL Spectrum of "Human Interest" story...

of all the Boxing Films, ONLY a Few True Stories really made the grade...

Raging Bull,
the Hurricane
and the Cinderella Man,

the rest were/are NON Fiction.

the Ali film with Will Smith was passable _hite, and all the other are Big Boxing films are FICTION.

the 3 mentioned & Films like Seabiscuit, they have those FULL Human Interest components. Many of the names mentioned here wouldn't cut it.

Fury, his career is a lye, never mind trying to inflate it into a film, NO.

you'd get a much better Film out of Monzon's story or Lloyd Marshall or the Globe Trotting War Hero, Sonny Jones, for example.

Big Box Office Films need all the elements that tell themselves...

an Everyman's Story!

 

I thought James Earl Jones did a splendid job.

 

Sam Langford.Harry Greb.Stanley Ketchel.Jimmy Wilde.Benny Lynch.

 

Harry Haft (I thought this movie was green lit years ago) Auschwitz survivor who fought in some fights to the death in Auschwitz, escaped the Nazis and made it to the US, eventually fighting Rocky Marciano

 

Adult film. Labeled "ER" (European), and "PO" (Polish). Holyfield could be played by actor Michael B. Jordan.

 

Jimmy McLarnin would be interesting.

 

Boxer you think needs a GOOD movie?
Peter Jackson
James J. Jeffries
Jack Johnson
Harry Greb
Sam Langford
Jack Dempsey
Primo Carnera
Joe Louis
Rocky Marciano
Floyd Patterson

 

Five have had films made about them.

 

I think a movie about the fab 4 in the 1980s would be good.. But pick good actors to portray their different styles and personalities.

 

Jim Gaffigan.