If I gave you a massive budget to make a film about one boxer

You can do it, but you don't make Floyd the hero. You make it about his fall from grace, a descent into materialism. You show him compromising himself, becoming less and less, turning away anyone who really cares about him and surrounding himself with hooligan yes men and people who just want to use him. So he traps himself in wealth and stardom but he's alienated from all his real friends and feels hollow. He's consumed with jealousy of Manny Pacquiao a guy who's his polar opposite, who has the respect of people that Floyd wants to have but pretends doesn't matter to him.

You have to start Floyd up high as this young idealistic boxer who wants to be the best and be loved by the fans. Then he compromises and every time he compromises he loses a friend but gains more money. It's about the transformation from Pretty Boy into Money. The end is kind of like Citizen Kane where he dies alone in this big empty house remembering his childhood sled "Rosebud."

 

Bobby Chacon. The ups, the downs, the wife's suicide due to him not quitting boxing and fighting 2 days later, the all action affairs and trilogy vs guys like Limon, the son killed in a gan slaying, getting into trouble beating later wives, his death etc etc.

 

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Heck yeah. Also absent, the Green fight I thought was better than all of them.

 

John Gully
Tom Molyneaux
Harry Greb
Alexis Arguello
Arturo Gatti

 

Boston Tom McMustache

 

Billy Miske could be a good one, or Sam Langford.

 

Obvious choice, but I think I'm the first one to say Sonny Liston.

 

Nutcase!

 

Charley Burley's story deserves to be told on screen it could include the Murderers Row.

 

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And the fact that after 2 hrs of the wolves chasing them and killing them off 1 by 1, when the penultimate moment arrives and he finally will fightvthe head wolf to the death, they rolled credits. Are you kidding me ?

 

I was going to suggest a movie about zzz Calamity Cooney. But, then I remembered his character was already used in the movie "Unbreakable". He was the villain "GLASSMAN""""!!! !! bbbbbwwwwaaaaaahhhahahaha

 

Billy Miske!
Sonny Liston
Gene Tunney
George Chuvahlo
Jack Dempsey
George Foreman
Manny Pacquiao
Max Schmeling

 

yeh nice one! or I'm thinking a Roller Ball (original movie) parallel, where he rises to the top only to discover the sham of it.

though since they know its a cash cow, it will probably turn out to be a tv movie level job with money played by cuba gooding jnr.