What Boxer should they make a film about?

[Looking On]

Mike Tyson would surely be the best one to do .

I know they did one in the early 90s but if they did a proper one showing about when he became the youngest ever heavyweight champion to when he went to jail and his comeback and the Holyfield ear stuff and his Familly Bereavement etc etc etc , i would watch it for certain .

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Sven ottke

Starring Roger Tilleman.

No, he'd be responsible for writing the score

[JLP]

Mike Tyson would surely be the best one to do .

It would almost certainly be the most successful financially but it would be a locked-on anti-climax bore for those who have been following his life/career since he was a teenager. Other than a few minutes of some feral youth stealing old ladies' handbags, a few dozen ropey sex scenes, and some fabricated prison drama, what could they show that they haven't shown a million times for real already?

[matko]

Matthew Saad Muhammad's life story would make a great film.

From being an abandoned baby to becoming one of the most exciting world champion boxers ever.

1 of his pre fight doc on YouTube is unreal to watch abandned 6 yrs old

[forcefraser]

Chuck Gardner would interesting. His fitness and nutrional work pre Bruno fight would make excellent viewing. I am pretty sure he won a lard eating contest at some point as well.

[dookus]

Sven ottke

Starring Roger Tilleman.

No, he'd be responsible for writing the score

This wins the thread

[Floatlikeabutterfly]

Think the life story of Randolph Turpin, would make for a great film, also Freddie Mills.

[danconnollyeire]

Gene Tunney

Joe Calzaghe

A Calzaghe film will be boring. Wins some fights, trains in quiet countyside, takes coke and a night out then dances on a show. He hardly had a thrilling life

[palooka]

Gene Tunney

Joe Calzaghe

A Calzaghe film will be boring. Wins some fights, trains in quiet countyside, takes coke and a night out then dances on a show. He hardly had a thrilling life

Don't think he'd swap it for mine

[winkveron]

Maybe not a film but a well done documentary about Jason Booth would be good I reckon.

You think? Do you not find addicts boring?

Someone who has been to the very bottom and then came back unfancied to dominate his division (domestically) to me is a great story.

[orbtastic]

Gene Tunney

Joe Calzaghe

A Calzaghe film will be boring. Wins some fights, trains in quiet countyside, takes coke and a night out then dances on a show. He hardly had a thrilling life

Don't think he'd swap it for mine

You forgot the takeaway with Mickey Duff.

I'm sure if QT got his hands on the script he could make that alone into a 30 minute sketch.

[TheWigwam]

Emanuel Augustus

[danconnollyeire]

Gene Tunney

Joe Calzaghe

A Calzaghe film will be boring. Wins some fights, trains in quiet countyside, takes coke and a night out then dances on a show. He hardly had a thrilling life

Don't think he'd swap it for mine

True but would you spend a tenner at the cinema to see a guy winning fights and training in quiet Newbridge? Could probably put together a YouTube compilation as Joe was never a headline stealer. Nothing out of the ordinary about his life unless you want to make a film about 'his great battle to become a ballroom dancing legend!'

[palooka]

Fair does Dan - when you put it like that

[danconnollyeire]

Fair does Dan - when you put it like that

But like you say, Il'd easily swap lifes

[Coco]

Scott Dixon is currently having a book written about his life, that should def make interesting reading

[binipop]

I'm halfway through 'Unforgivable Blackness', a book about Jack Johnson, great book about a huge, larger than life character. I believe a pretty bad tv movie has already been of this but i'm not sure a film could do it justice. Get scorsese to do a mini series on it.

[Omerta]

rayco "war" saunders

[Final round]

I'm halfway through 'Unforgivable Blackness', a book about Jack Johnson, great book about a huge, larger than life character. I believe a pretty bad tv movie has already been of this but i'm not sure a film could do it justice. Get scorsese to do a mini series on it.

at last someone with sense. Johnson's life would make a excellent movie in the right hands.

[dookus]

I'm halfway through 'Unforgivable Blackness', a book about Jack Johnson, great book about a huge, larger than life character. I believe a pretty bad tv movie has already been of this but i'm not sure a film could do it justice. Get scorsese to do a mini series on it.

There's a fantastic 4 hour documentary on him (based, I think, on the book) by Ken Burns

[dookus]

Oh, and, once again: JACK DEMPSEY. Born of drifter parents, leaves home as a teenager and learns to fight in bars and mining camps across the US, rides the rails around the country spending time as a hobo, marries a hooker, gets discovered by manager Doc Kearns, becomes a young hungry contender and rips away the world championship in one of the bloodiest fights ever, goes on trial for allegedly dodging the draft with his ex-wife testifying against him, becomes the biggest sportsman in the world and stars in a load of 20s Hollywood movies, becomes lazy, goes into decline, loses to Tunney and suddenly finds the public affection he never had as a champion, winds up with a restaurant on Broadway and lives to a happy old age a well-loved former champion.

He had an incredible life and it would make a great story to tell onscreen.

[chad]

Scottish legend Benny Lynch.

At the ago of 23 Lynch became the undisputed world flyweight boxing champion. Just 2 years later his career came to an end due to alcoholism. In his 7 year professional career Lynch fought 102 times. In 1946, aged just 33, Lynch died of malnutrition. The man died broke and alone.

[Final round]

Oh, and, once again: JACK DEMPSEY. Born of drifter parents, leaves home as a teenager and learns to fight in bars and mining camps across the US, rides the rails around the country spending time as a hobo, marries a hooker, gets discovered by manager Doc Kearns, becomes a young hungry contender and rips away the world championship in one of the bloodiest fights ever, goes on trial for allegedly dodging the draft with his ex-wife testifying against him, becomes the biggest sportsman in the world and stars in a load of 20s Hollywood movies, becomes lazy, goes into decline, loses to Tunney and suddenly finds the public affection he never had as a champion, winds up with a restaurant on Broadway and lives to a happy old age a well-loved former champion.

He had an incredible life and it would make a great story to tell onscreen.

Yeah Dempsey would be a cracker too

[dve3333]

Emile Griffiths story also is made for a movie. He won 2 world titles, was involved in a ring death that was live on national tv and made huge news at the time which haunted him throughout his life. Hiding his homosexuality throughout his career even getting married while he was a pro. Then in retirement working as a correctional officer in a prison and beaten to near death on a New York street.

[misterpunch]

In May 2012 it was announced that trumpeter Terence Blanchard and playwright Michael Cristofer are working on an opera titled Champion based on Griffith's story which will premiere at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis June 15, 2013, directed by James Robinson (opera director) and starring Denyce Graves, Aubrey Allicock, Arthur Woodley, and Robert Orth