Classic boxing films waiting to be made....

[Ade L]

Any boxers story you'd like to see in a film that's yet to be made....unfortunately tragic stories sometimes make the most compelling ones but there's some positive tales too. Here's my 2 which I picked for very different reasons -

i) Buster Douglas
ii) Johnny Owen

[BoxBuzz]

ButterBean Starring in a remake of Fat City

[Controversial]

Has there ever been one about Jack Dempsey?

[Ambling Alp II]

There was a Made for TV Movie on Dempsey around 1980. It was OK.

[palooka]

Craig Bodzianowski.
Leon Spinks.
Bernard Hopkins.
Nipper Daley.

[Mimmy]

im surprised nigel benn didnt get into movies. I would have thought he would have made a bloody good villian type gangster character.

[witherspoon]

Bobby Chacon or Alexis Arguello. I'll throw Dennis Andries out there too.

Where is this Duran movie? It seems to be taking forever.

[misterpunch]

chacon - a life made for movies

[writehooks]

George Chuvalo. Between what he accomplished in the ring and the hell he
s endured since retiring, it's a tremendously interesting and inspiring story.

[doug.ie]

to me, mickey walkers story would be great fun.....and harry grebs has so much folklore attached to it.

[orbtastic]

Ketchel's too.

[handsofstone]

George Chuvalo's story must be the saddest thing I've ever heard

Johnny Tapia's life story would make a great film too,again a tragic life

[keithmoonhangover]

Ketchel's too.

Agreed. One of goals is to make a movie of Ketchel's life.

[Cap]

Treat Williams was in that Dempsey movie. I always thought Clark Gable should've played Dempsey in one of those 30s-40s bio-pics they were making. I recently read that Dempsey wanted too much mazoomah for the rights to his name.

[punchoutsb]

Lots of good ones already mentioned.

I always thought Billy Miske's tragic life and death would make a great movie. A very courageous guy.

Also Gatti.

[Ezzard]

...and harry grebs has so much folklore attached to it.

I tried it. Pitched it to dev people at HBO (as a TV series). I was told nobody knows who he is.

[Cap]

Hey. If it didn't happen last week it never happened.

[jimglen]

"the Thistle in the Rose."

Bert Gilroy's story.

[stevedoc]

Steve Robinson a real rag to riches story or Kirkland laing rag to riches back to rags

[palooka]

Paul Smith - they could do a long training montage with him scoffing ice cream and drinking dandelion and burdock with sweat coming off his head.

[punchoutsb]

...and harry grebs has so much folklore attached to it.

I tried it. Pitched it to dev people at HBO (as a TV series). I was told nobody knows who he is.

Are you involved in film/tv as well, Ezzard?

[orbtastic]

...and harry grebs has so much folklore attached to it.

I tried it. Pitched it to dev people at HBO (as a TV series). I was told nobody knows who he is.

Lights out was cancelled after just one series.

[caldo2025]

I recently watched the story of Mancini and Kim and that was fantastic. Everyone knows what happened in the ring that day but this story goes into Kim's life and explains who he really was and what made him fight to the death that day. Mancini was on top of the world at the time and had several million dollar endorsement contracts cancelled as a result of that fight because no one wanted a murderer as the face of their company. Less tragic for Mancini, of course, but still a pretty sad story. In the end, Kim's Son, who never got to meet his Dad comes to California to confront Mancini and it's a very touching film and very well done. I definitely recommend this film.

I'd like to see a story about Diego Corrales.

[Cutman Scabbers]

James Toney

[palooka]

I recently watched the story of Mancini and Kim and that was fantastic. Everyone knows what happened in the ring that day but this story goes into Kim's life and explains who he really was and what made him fight to the death that day. Mancini was on top of the world at the time and had several million dollar endorsement contracts cancelled as a result of that fight because no one wanted a murderer as the face of their company. Less tragic for Mancini, of course, but still a pretty sad story. In the end, Kim's Son, who never got to meet his Dad comes to California to confront Mancini and it's a very touching film and very well done. I definitely recommend this film.

I'd like to see a story about Diego Corrales.

I read the Mancini biography, The Good Son, on holiday and it was really good, the Kim tragidy iis well covered and it is very touching.

Corrales would make a good film