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

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  1. Rumsfeld

    Rumsfeld Moderator Staff Member

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    Well when you consider his bizarre antics, both inside and outside the ring, I think there is a very interesting, 'human' story to tell. And I think it inherently has an almost Kubrickian vibe to it, myself.
     
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  2. LD Boxer-Puncher

    LD Boxer-Puncher Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Yeah I have no doubt there are plenty of ways to make a film about Mayweather a good one.

    I'm just making the point to Janitor that, even if it was a bad film it'd sell by his name anyway
     
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  3. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Barny Ross is one I would consider. Quite a life, from Champion, drug addiction, hero in WW2. You could throw in the night he beat Ceferino Garcia with one hand.
     
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  4. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well, of course! And let us not forget the greatest front man in rock and roll history; Peter Wolf of J. GEILS!
     
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  5. J Jones

    J Jones Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The crossover appeal of this movie would be HUGE, if Justin Bieber, 50 cent, and Ms. Jackson have roles in he film...
     
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  6. J Jones

    J Jones Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Throw Paul Spadafora in there too.
     
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  7. J Jones

    J Jones Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Micky Ward was a true throwback fighter. However, if that Hollyweird racist, Mark Wahlburg, wasn’t so fixated on all things Boston, the Micky Ward story would’ve never been told.
     
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  8. J Jones

    J Jones Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Great call.
     
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  9. J Jones

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    The movie Fences is loosely based on Burley. Instead of a washed up boxer who works as a trash collector, the story deals with a never made it baseball player, turned trash collector, turned bitter man.

    I believe the creator of Fences knew Burley during his (the creator’s) childhood, growing up in Pittsburgh.
     
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  10. J Jones

    J Jones Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Emile Griffith...came of age as a black man during an era that was racially divided and way less tolerant of homosexuals, which he was. Plus he killed a man in the ring. If Pazienza and Micky Ward could have movies made about them, im sure there’s a writer/director who could give Griffith his due.

    Aaron Pryor would be another good movie. Flight of The Hawk is a great book, if you can get your hands on a copy.
     
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  11. JohnThomas1

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    Cheers. I should add i just realized he fought Limon a full 4 times. He had a trilogy with the great Ruben Olivares.
     
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  12. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Bep van Klaveren.....
     
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  13. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Do you start with the part where he shoots his pregnant wife in the stomach or leave that 'till act 3?
     
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  14. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    Think I'll finish watching that tonight. August Wilson is the third best playwright America has ever produced, right after Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. It's a crime that of his work only two plays have been adapted to film.
     
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  15. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    There should be a AAA DC Comic style franchise for boxing legends.
     
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