Boxing Documentaries

There is a good Nigel Benn documentary on YouTube about his life in and outside of the ring, about his brother's death, about him being suicidal and his army life.

 

maybe mate. This one was in 4 parts, telling the story of the HW title but roughly separated into 4 episodes dealing with Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis and Ali.

 

Nigel Benn: My Childhood. Shown on tv in early 2006. One of the most open, honest and frank interviews by a boxer ever. Very emotional. Well worth viewing for any Benn fan.

 

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Yeah I agree, quality documentary.

 

theres a short 1 on gereld mcClellen on youtube. quite emotional

 

A couple of "outside the box" boxing documentaries I have enjoyed are:
"Blue Blood", a look at the Oxford amateur boxing team,
The one on Tony Booth Setanta did a couple of years ago,
"The Ring Within The Rings" - a look at the history of Olympic boxing and it's greats.
"Down The Street Of Dreams" a mid 90's production on Wayne McCullough

 

That sounds like 'The Fight', the dempsey portion is on YouTube

 

there is a short docu on valero sparring wars he ****ed dela hoya over be fore the pac fight he was told to leave the camp

 

what is the ali doc with Laurence Fishburne as narrator?

 

footage of him sparring morales on youtube aswell

 

yep better than alot of fights:good

 

Ali Frazier one nation divisible
American Justice - Rubin Carter
Bare Knuckle Boxer
Boxing a Bloody Business
Becoming Muhammed Ali
Death of Sonny Liston
ESPN Classic The Season - Hasim Rahman (Lewis II camp)
Fighting the Mob (The Story of Carmen Basilio)
Frank Bruno - Laid Bare
Hilton Brothers - Twisted Fate
Howard Cossell & Muhammad Ali - The Final Rounds
Johnny Owen - The Long Journey
Lennox Lewis vs Evander Holyfield - The Undisputed Truth
Manny Pacquiao - Rise to Greatness
Muhammed & Larry
Naked Sport - Welcome to the Sewer
Orthodox Stance
Reputations - Episodes on Ali & Robinson
Rocky Marciano - A Life Story
Rumble in the jungle
Sonny Liston - The Champ Nobody Wanted
Sugar Ray Robinson - Pound For Pound
The Fight - Louis vs. Schmeling
The History of the Heavyweight Championship
The Road To Glory
Thriller in Manilla
Tyson v Bruno Fistfull of Dollars
Tyson vs Spinks - Once and for All
When we were Kings

Any of the Fighting Class episodes
Beyond the Glory series
Ringside (US)
Sports Century series

 

Theres a copy on WBVA, it is called Kings of the Ring, absolutely brilliant, watched it last year. Good shout :good

 

Yeah, it is outstanding. I haven't seen it in many years so may dig out my VHS recording sometime pretty soon :good

It is a great accompaniment to a beautiful pictorial book I have called "Crown Of Thorns", which is a superb photograph based book depicting the heavyweight champions through the ages and the "curse" it carries (highlighting the various misgivings, misfortune & tragedies etc that have befallen most heavyweight champions throughout history).

The documentary is in no way related, but is of a similar theme. But "Kings Of The Ring" is highly recommended. Loads of training footage and interviews of all the old time greats such as Dempsey, Louis, Johnson etc all the way up to Tyson. There's footage of Carnera boxing a real life kangaroo and I even recall footage of Max Baer "training" on the beach, digging sand - with a spoon!

 

Just watching the Nigel Benn docu now that was mentioned, cheers for the heads up.

Kidgloves thats a quality list, cheers.


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