boxers starring in movies??????

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  1. treva1977

    treva1977 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    in the brit boxing forum they were talking about enzo macc starring in a new movie about howard winston.
    someone said (he would be like all the other boxers who starred in films).
    all of who......??? i can only think of tommy morrison in rocky 5 and i remember gary stretch being in a film but i dont recall any others.

    can you name any other boxers that have been in a movie?
     
  2. Jack Dempsey

    Jack Dempsey Legend Full Member

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    Tarver in Rocky Balboa, and the most recent Contender winner was in Cinderella Man
     
  3. ConcretePete

    ConcretePete Active Member Full Member

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    Gary stretch was in dead mans shoes, great film.
    Roberto Duran in Rocky II.
    Steve Collins in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
    And of course Mickey Rourke.
     
  4. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Billy Schwer was in Mean Machine.
     
  5. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Ali played himself in The Greatest.
     
  6. Jack Dempsey

    Jack Dempsey Legend Full Member

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    Mike Tyson in the Hangover, Dempsey in Requiem for a Heavyweight, Dempsey Baer and Carnera in The Prizefighter and the Lady, Baer also in The Harder They Fall
     
  7. Jack Dempsey

    Jack Dempsey Legend Full Member

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    Randall Tex Cobb starred in a few movies, think he was the opponent in the remake of The Champ
     
  8. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    not exactly starring but Lennox and wlad in ocean's eleven, i'm sure hagler has appeared in a couple of movies
     
  9. D-MAC

    D-MAC Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yeah, Italian movies wasn't it?
     
  10. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Yep, he was in Italian action films after he retired.
     
  11. D-MAC

    D-MAC Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    And of course there's Manny Pacquiao:

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  12. HeavyT

    HeavyT Boxing Addict Full Member

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    wasnt toney frazier in the film ali? and am sure le nnox plays some pirate radio DJ in a film called Johnny was or Johnny says or soemthing.
     
  13. doug.ie

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  14. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    yeah, toney played frazier quiet well in that joke of a film, jamie fox is the only one to come out with any credit for his portrail of bundini brown. why do a film when Ali is still alive? and how the **** do they manage to make one of the most interesting and exciting sporting lives of that century so boring, for me it was just a pathetic attempt to try and get will smith an oscar which is evident in the movies he's done since then.
     
  15. Michael Bentt played Liston in 'Ali' did he not?