Which boxer would you like to see brought to the big screen in docu-drama style?

Arent they in the process of making 1 now? I think.

 

Thats a great idea to have those characters in there,Corbett would be a given cause they had that big fight

 

Billy Papke

 

Sullivan might have been a twat, but in some ways, a more sympathetic character emerges when you study him.

 

Here you have hit the nail on the head.

 

yes it would benefit the movie massively to make him several dimensions. I would be interested in reading more about his time of prizefighting, I have only gleaned internet stuff up to now.

I always imagine John L Sullivan having a haughty british accent something like Windsor Davis from It Aint Half Hot Mum....lol, I dont know why I think that...perhaps its that utterly stupid moustache he had.

SHame there were no recorded interviews of him, i guess because he drank himself to death relatively young like so many other 19th century fighters who would have been fascinating to hear interviews for - quite possible if they had lived really long lives instead of giving up the ghost in the thirties and forties (after all, we have recorded interviews with those african americans who were harshly kidnapped and unjustly imprisoned for no reason for their whole lives on plantations, so you'd expect their contempararies, many of whom were ex-prisoners of plantations or 'children of sugar crop' to have recorded something too).

 

The most bizarre thing about the coverage of the Dempsey - Carpentiers fight in BOARDWALK EMPIRE was the way people/spectators sat down on chairs in a tent all dressed up in their suits and best dresses round a... ... RADIO lol to listen to the fight, as opposed to our mass convergence around an HD 50 inch screen.


I thought that was a touch of bizzare genius, whoever put together that scene for authenticity's sake.

 

Walcott Jersey Joe

 

RJJ could be a good one. The best fighter on the planet to someone who needs to let go of boxing

 

one on Tommy Burns would be interesting to

 

Joe 'Iron Jaw' Grimm

 

Good one. Any idea who would play him ?