What is everybody's fave documentary/film on boxing?

I suck for not being able to name one single favorite, but since there seems to be some (partly justified, granted) backlash against Ali in this thread, I'll toss out ESPN's 30 for 30 piece on Ali - Holmes, which was pretty damned riveting. Disgusting how many people were "in" on Ali being in no condition to fight, who played ball just to make a dollar, and interesting to see how Ali related to real people when he knew it was almost over and there wasn't enough media around to put on a show.

I've also seen some of those old Basilio interviews. He didn't crack a smile in one of them. :rofl

 

"When We Were Kings" - That's what I show everybody that's interested in learning about Ali and boxing.

Also worth mentioning is that "Soul Power" was released and contains a lot of good musical footage of all the bands involved in the event. Good ****. Also get to see more of Stewart Levine who had to be wasted on that flight from NYC to Zaire, "We're going to Zaire in ze air!" he said to Big Black.

Read Norman Mailer's The Fight and you've got one hell of a picture of that time in Zaire (Aug/Sept 1974).

 

Ali-Holmes was so sad. I watched that documentary in Pittsburgh when I was on trip for a funeral. To see him work the speedbag with great difficulty cuts a swath of anger in me. Who could allow that crew of "hangers on" to continue? It also helps explain the extraordinary drive in Ali, the man wasn't foolish he just wanted to continue what he was once the Greatest at.

 

all the previous ones mentioned are all very good. But another one thats not very well known is the Paulie malignaggi documentary which followed his training and life right up to and after the cotto fight. It portrays malignaggi in a different light and not as the trash talking loud guy most people think he is

 

This is a GREAT documentary about Ray Mancini and also the Mancini-Kim fight. Mancini is great on camera because he wears his heart on his sleeve and seems truely genuine:

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