What fighter would you like to see a movie based on?
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dan the destroyer
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Eric the Viking
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Except that Cuba looks little like the Brown Bomber, but on the other hand is the spitting image of RJJ. But this is Hollywood after all ... they'll probably cast Ben Affleck to play Max Schmeling. ;)dan the destroyer wrote:John l Sullivan, Sam Langford & James Jeffries. I heard a rumor a long time ago that Cuba Gooding Jr. was to star in a big budget version of the Joe Louis story, that could be incredible.
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Eric the Viking
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joltin jeff chandler
joltin jeff chandler, anyone who dosent start boxing till hes in this 20's becomes champ makes the hall of fame and boxes out of philly must be a good story 
Jack “chappie” Blackburn.
From the little I have read on Jack Blackburn his life would make a great film.
He shared the ring with truly excellent opposition, Joe Gans, Harry Greb, Kid Norfolk, Philadelphia Jack O’Brien and also shared the ring with a young Sam Langford in an fight that was scored a draw before they even set foot in the ring, a fight that Jack decided to forget the arranged draw and set about beating up Langford.
And this only a lightweight.
And then there was the sparring session with future world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, Blackburn again pummelled his man, Johnson never forgetting this and held a grudge against Blackburn for a long time after.
In his younger days Blackburn was a drinker with a violent temper, fist fights or knife fights he didn’t mind, he did not shy away from a fight of any description, so much so he was jailed for the murder of a fellow drinker who crossed him.
And all this leads to when Jack mellowed a little and trained bantamweight champion Bud Taylor and lightweight champion Sammy Mendell.
And then was coaxed to take on a black heavyweight, when black fighters were still getting a rough deal in the sport.
Despite wanting nothing to do with any coloured boxer, he wanted the money on offer a little bit more.
His heavyweight hopeful turned out to be no bigger than a light heavy, slow feet and couldn’t throw a combination without throwing himself off balance and lacked any killer instinct for the ring, and all this from a four fight pro.
Needless to say Blackburn turned him into the best heavyweight in the history of the sport, and one of America’s favourite sons when racism was not just showing it’s ugly head, but holding it high, chin up with a smirk of arrogance from one ear to the next.
All this and as far as I know there has never been even a book written about Jack, though many about his protégé who he had a big influence in shaping ..Joe Louis.
From the little I have read on Jack Blackburn his life would make a great film.
He shared the ring with truly excellent opposition, Joe Gans, Harry Greb, Kid Norfolk, Philadelphia Jack O’Brien and also shared the ring with a young Sam Langford in an fight that was scored a draw before they even set foot in the ring, a fight that Jack decided to forget the arranged draw and set about beating up Langford.
And this only a lightweight.
And then there was the sparring session with future world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, Blackburn again pummelled his man, Johnson never forgetting this and held a grudge against Blackburn for a long time after.
In his younger days Blackburn was a drinker with a violent temper, fist fights or knife fights he didn’t mind, he did not shy away from a fight of any description, so much so he was jailed for the murder of a fellow drinker who crossed him.
And all this leads to when Jack mellowed a little and trained bantamweight champion Bud Taylor and lightweight champion Sammy Mendell.
And then was coaxed to take on a black heavyweight, when black fighters were still getting a rough deal in the sport.
Despite wanting nothing to do with any coloured boxer, he wanted the money on offer a little bit more.
His heavyweight hopeful turned out to be no bigger than a light heavy, slow feet and couldn’t throw a combination without throwing himself off balance and lacked any killer instinct for the ring, and all this from a four fight pro.
Needless to say Blackburn turned him into the best heavyweight in the history of the sport, and one of America’s favourite sons when racism was not just showing it’s ugly head, but holding it high, chin up with a smirk of arrogance from one ear to the next.
All this and as far as I know there has never been even a book written about Jack, though many about his protégé who he had a big influence in shaping ..Joe Louis.
Don't even joke about it!Eric the Viking wrote: ... they'll probably cast Ben Affleck to play Max Schmeling. ;)
I haven't gone back and read this entire thread, so someone's probably brought it up already, but Schmeling would make a great movie--not just his fighting career, but his experiences under the Nazis in WWII, etc....sort of like "Schindler's List" meets "Rocky"--oh God, now it sounds like I'm pitching a perfect Hollywood vehicle for Ben Affleck
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Guest
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You mean the first European to sight the Pacific? (He would have said "discover", much to the amusement of the Samoans, Tongans, Fijians, Hawaiians, Papuans, etc.)
No I mean the heavyweight champion whose big fights included two world title matches against Apollo Creed, two against Clubber Lang, one non-title bout against Ivan Drago and a proposed match against Tommy "The Machine" Gunn (who looked a great deal like Tommy Morrison) which never came off.
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Eric the Viking
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Did that Balboa ever sight the Pacific? They could make a movie about how he's driving down Highway 1 along the ocean, feeling kinda blue about the Gunn fight not coming off, and then swerving to avoid a stray Koala that escaped from an L.A. zoo (Danny DeVito would play the Koala, obviously) and driving right off a cliff into the ocean and being just about to drown when he's saved by a gorgeous mermaid with long blond hair (J. Lo could play that part, obviously) and when he comes to he's lying on the beach with seaweed all in his hair and ears and nose and he's wondering whether it was all just a crazy dream...The Original Hurricane wrote:You mean the first European to sight the Pacific? (He would have said "discover", much to the amusement of the Samoans, Tongans, Fijians, Hawaiians, Papuans, etc.)
No I mean the heavyweight champion whose big fights included two world title matches against Apollo Creed, two against Clubber Lang, one non-title bout against Ivan Drago and a proposed match against Tommy "The Machine" Gunn (who looked a great deal like Tommy Morrison) which never came off.
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Guest
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Not around the Pacific, just to it. Vasco Nunez de Balboa (get it? like Rocky) was an early 15th century Spanish conquistador who crossed from the Spnaish colony on the Atlantic side of Panama to the Pacific. Apparently, Eric likes to let us know from time to time that he does--on occassion--read a book that isn't about boxing. Or maybe that was from the history channel?
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alrightjim
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Palmer-McGovern
During Terry McGovern's time his style of fighting was considered the crude American style, and many boxing experts predicted that when Pedlar Palmer came across the pond he'd give the Irish oaf a boxing lesson.
Palmer could stand right in front of a man and slip his best blows, not run like so many defensive fighters do today. It was really considered a clash of science and refinement against bowery bum savagery. This would make for a good script I think.
That McGovern came out and tore into Palmer's body then ripped to his head and knocked him cold in the first round really served notice to a world here-to-fore run by a refined, culturally haughty empire that the boorish Americans were here and that the way they fought their battles worked. There was no time for tea and crumpets, just pounding people's bodies until they peed red for a week and then tearing off their head when the hands came down. It would be great drama and the fighters are so small (112 pounds) it'll give Elijah Wood (Palmer) and Sean Astin (McGovern) a job after they are done playing hobbits. They're too old to play high school kids anymore. What else they gonna do?
Palmer could stand right in front of a man and slip his best blows, not run like so many defensive fighters do today. It was really considered a clash of science and refinement against bowery bum savagery. This would make for a good script I think.
That McGovern came out and tore into Palmer's body then ripped to his head and knocked him cold in the first round really served notice to a world here-to-fore run by a refined, culturally haughty empire that the boorish Americans were here and that the way they fought their battles worked. There was no time for tea and crumpets, just pounding people's bodies until they peed red for a week and then tearing off their head when the hands came down. It would be great drama and the fighters are so small (112 pounds) it'll give Elijah Wood (Palmer) and Sean Astin (McGovern) a job after they are done playing hobbits. They're too old to play high school kids anymore. What else they gonna do?
{amateur} wrote:Paz he has a really weird career, and they could cast cuba gooding jr as Roy Jones!
Also Tapia would make a good movie!
And spadafora they can have a scene where he jumps out of a Hummer and shoots his girlfriend!
paz and tapia would be a great movie, also mathew saad mohammad,
jeff chandler, michael carbajal, would be great, in fact any movie about boxing, or a boxer
....they need to make another movie about
mohammad ali, i dont think 36 thousand movies about him are enuff,
possably he could fight rocky balboa in rocky 6
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no1southpaw
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no1southpaw
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