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Saturday, September 12th, 2009Meg Ryan stars in a true story about Jackie Kallen, the first female boxing manager who successfully broke the gender barrier of the boxing world. The film focuses on the relationship she has with her first boxer, Luther Shaw (Omar Epps) and his successful rise to the boxing championship and the inside dealings of the […]
Diggstown
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Starring James Woods and Loius Gossett Jr, Diggstown is the story of Gabriel Caine - who has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock […]
Million Dollar Baby
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Hilary Swank plays Maggie Fitzgerald, a poor, thirty year old waitress with a dysfunctional family, who decides to change her life through boxing. She convinces the experienced hardened boxing trainer Frankie Dunn, played by Clint Eastwood, to coach her and be her manager, with the support of his old partner Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris, played by […]
Death Race
Monday, August 25th, 2008Loosely (and I mean loosely) based on classic cult film Death Race 2000, this re-imagining by director Paul W.S. Anderson is a super violent action film. Ex-con Jensen Ames, played by Jason Statham, is forced by the warden of a notoriously hardcore prison (Joan Allen) to compete against one another (with the help of some […]
Best Sports Movie Moments - Rocky 4
Thursday, June 12th, 2008This training montage is one of the best cheesy montages in boxing movie history. Enjoy the video from Rocky IV!!!
7 Bad Sports Movies - with the math to prove it…
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
The math - Stephen Baldwin + Gary Busey = Unavoidable trainwreck.
The Bad News Bears Go To Japan
The math - Bad News Bears + Japan = Unfunny.
Caddyshack 2
The math - Great original film - anything funny + studio greed = Disaster-town.
Rocky IV
Stallone + Subversive anti-Russian Cold War propoganda = Steaming […]
Top Ten Martial Arts Movies
Thursday, May 1st, 20081. Enter the Dragon, 1973
Directed by Robert Clouse and starring Bruce Lee.
Everybody’s favorite Bruce Lee movie.
2. The Chinese Connection, 1972
Directed by Lo Wei and starring Bruce Lee. Original title: Fist of Fury.
Another Bruce Lee’s classic. It was hard to choose between this and Enter The Dragon for #1.
3) Drunken Master, 1979
Directed by Yuen Woo-Ping and […]
Boxing Movies
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Against the Ropes
Ali
Annapolis
Black Cloud
Body and Soul
Boxer, The
Carmen: The Champion
Champ, The
Cinderella Man
City for Conquest
Diggstown
Fat City
Fighting Tommy Riley
Gentleman Jim
Girlfight
Gladiator
Great White Hope, The
Hammer, The
Harder They Fall, The
Hurricane, The
Joe and Max
Kid Galahad
Kid, The
Let’s Do It Again
Million Dollar Baby
Raging Bull
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Resurrecting the Champ
Rocky
Rocky Balboa
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky Marciano
Rocky V
Set-Up, The
Snake Eyes
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Strength and Honor
Tough Enough
Undisputed
Undisputed […]
Best Sports Movie Moments #3 Raging Bull
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008This video is the famous scene from Raging Bull when De Niro’s Jake La Motta enters Florida’s Dade County Stockade in 1957.
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