What is your favourite boxing film (excluding documentaries)?

[Stickman]

10 hours ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

Any Old Port (1929)

 

 

 

 

 

Great shout , Love that film

 

 

Hard Times (used to be called The Streetfighter )...With Charles Bronson set in the depression, with one of the best opening scenes in any movie not just boxing ones and a scene that's been imitated many times from Troy to Jason Bourne 

 

Great film and Bronson even though he's 54 looks in great shape and the kind of old fella you wouldn't want to mess with in a boozer

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

10 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I've never seen Fat City or The Fighter.  Some of the other films on the mentioned are really good, but Raging Bull is the only correct answer. 

Watch Fat City then. It's ace.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I still find it depressingly unsurprising that the city of Philadelphia had a statue of their white 1970s fictional boxing champion years before they had one of their black 1970s real-life boxing champion.

[Johnlj]

14 hours ago, Elite said:

Snatch could have been an option as well. Unlicensed boxing is still boxing.

Yu like dags

[Bjornebye]

Has anyone seen the Lennox Lewis documentary on Sky yet? Downloaded it earlier but got sidetracked. 

[Section_31]

First Rocky for me, no contest. I think when people look at the whole Rocky anthology it kind of gets forgotten that it was very much a different animal to what followed.

[johnsusername]

 "Champ, wake up, Champ. Hey, don't sleep now. We got to go home. Got to go home, Champ."

[Jennings]

Great thread.

 

Couldn't pick between 'Somebody up here likes me.' or 'Cinderella man'.

 

Went for 'somebody up here likes me.' in the end because it really took me by surprise - it just came on one night and I loved it. I thought Newman wasn't ace in it - even though he is fucking awesome. 

 

Cinderella Man is amazing too. Love the scenes at the docks.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Has anyone seen the Lennox Lewis documentary on Sky yet? Downloaded it earlier but got sidetracked. 

Not seen that, but "Pariah", the Sonny Liston documentary, was fascinating. 

[Kevin D]

Think Ali is getting short shrift here, a fantastic combination of Will Smith, Mann, Jamie Foxx, 60s strife, and a hell of a fucking soundtrack.

[Kevin D]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYXhGS4FF4