Real-life boxers portrayed in movies

Musashi · Post by **Musashi** » 13 Mar 2006, 12:27

Muhammad Ali – Will Smith in ‘Ali’, Darius McCrary in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Sonny Liston – Michael Bentt in ‘Ali’, Roger E. Mosley in ‘The Greatest’
Joe Frazier – James Toney in ‘Ali’, Israel Cole in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Ernie Terrell – Alfred Cole in ‘Ali’
George Foreman – Charles Shufford in ‘Ali’, Jarrod Bunch in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Floyd Patterson – Rufus Dorsey in ‘Ali’
Jerry Quarry – Robert Sale in ‘Ali’
Jimmy Ellis – Vincent Cook in ‘Ali’
Ken Norton – Damian Wills in ‘Ali’
Jersey Joe Walcott – Cedric Wills in ‘Ali’, Melo Alexandria in 'Marciano'
Larry Holmes – Derrick Brown in ‘Ali’, Danny Johnson in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Archie Moore – Nathaniel Malekane in ‘Ali’
Ray Mancini – John Wolfshohl in ‘Ali’
Earnie Shavers – John Black in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Chuck Wepner – K.J. Penthouse in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Buster Douglas – Michael Blanks in ‘Don King: Only in America’, Duane Davis in ‘Tyson’
Mike Tyson – Cliff Couser in ‘Don King: Only in America’, Michael Jai White in ‘Tyson’
Evander Holyfield – Everton Davis in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Tony Tucker – King Ipitan in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Leon Spinks – Kevin Grevioux in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Bonecrusher Smith – Carlos Monroe in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Pinklon Thomas – Dee Collier in ‘Don King: Only in America’
Kevin Rooney – Clark Gregg in ‘Tyson’
Mitch Green – Michael Jace in ‘Tyson’
Rocky Marciano – Jon Favreau in ‘Rocky Marciano’, Tony Lo Bianco in 'Marciano'
Joe Louis – Duane Davis in ‘Rocky Marciano’, Coley Wallace in ‘Raging Bull’, Coley Wallace in ‘The Joe Louis Story’, Leonard Roberts in ‘Joe & Max’
Lee Epperson – Gordon Lusby in ‘Rocky Marciano’
Lou Ambers – Wayne Robson in ‘Rocky Marciano’
Jim Braddock – Russell Crowe in ‘Cinderella Man’, Frank Shattuck in ‘Joe & Max’
Max Baer – Craig Bierko in ‘Cinderella Man’
Joe Jeanette – Ron Canada in ‘Cinderella Man’
John Henry Lewis – Troy Amos-Ross in ‘Cinderella Man’
Art Lasky – Mark Simmons in ‘Cinderella Man’
Corn Griffin – Art Binkowski in ‘Cinderella Man’
Abe Feldman – David Litzinger in ‘Cinderella Man’
Primo Carnera – Matthew Taylor in ‘Cinderella Man’
Tuffy Griffith – Thomasz Kurzydlowski in ‘Cinderella Man’
Jake Lamotta – Robert De Niro in ‘Raging Bull’
Ray Robinson – Johnny Barnes in ‘Raging Bull’
Tony Janiro – Kevin Mahon in ‘Raging Bull’
Billy Fox – Eddie Mustafa Muhammad in ‘Raging Bull’
Marcel Cerdan – Louis Raftis in ‘Raging Bull’
Laurent Dauthille – Johnny Turner in ‘Raging Bull’
Jim Corbett – Errol Flynn in ‘Gentleman Jim’, Rory Calhoun in ‘The Great John L’
John L. Sullivan – Ward Bond in ‘Gentleman Jim’, Greg McClure in ‘The Great John L’
Jake Kilrain – Mike Mazurki in ‘Gentleman Jim’
Joe Choynski – Sammy Stein in ‘Gentleman Jim’
Rubin Carter – Denzel Washington in ‘The Hurricane’
Emile Griffith – Terry Claybon in ‘The Hurricane’
Joey Giardello – Ben Bray in ‘The Hurricane’
Joey Cooper – Michael Justus in ‘The Hurricane’
Sam Langford – John Marriott in ‘The Joe Louis Story’
Max Schmeling – William Thourlby in ‘The Joe Louis Story’, Til Schweiger in ‘Joe & Max’
Rocky Graziano – Paul Newman in ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’
Curtis Hightower – Charles Green in ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’
Tony Zale – Court Shepard in ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’
Jack Dempsey – Daniel Hugh Kelly in ‘Joe & Max’, Treat Williams in ‘Dempsey’
Gene Tunney – Jimmy Nickerson in ‘Dempsey’
Jess Willard – Clay Hodges in ‘Dempsey’
Luis Firpo – Eli Cummins in ‘Dempsey’
Abe Attell – Michael Mantell in ‘Eight Men Out’

Arsenal · Post by **Arsenal** » 13 Mar 2006, 12:36

Lennox Lewis and Klitschko as themselves in Oceans 11?

Expug · Post by **Expug** » 13 Mar 2006, 13:06

Victor McGlaglen in The Quiet Man.

TheRiverCityHippy · Post by **TheRiverCityHippy** » 13 Mar 2006, 15:21

expug wrote:Victor McGlaglen in The Quiet Man.

yeah but i dont think the squire danaher was a real fighter.
he and `sean thorton` really went at it though, in the barn, through the haystack, into the boozer, across the river, across the fields.......thats what you call a fight.

Arsenal · Post by **Arsenal** » 13 Mar 2006, 17:22

expug wrote:Victor McGlaglen in The Quiet Man.

LOL Quality!

I assume thats a joke?

Jorge · Post by **Jorge** » 13 Mar 2006, 17:45

Thomas hearns as himself in Who's the Boss

Johnny Owen (God Bless) and Lupe Pintor as themselves in Faces of Death.

Expug · Post by **Expug** » 13 Mar 2006, 21:26

Arsenal wrote:
expug wrote:Victor McGlaglen in The Quiet Man.

LOL Quality!

I assume thats a joke?

No joke . Look it up. He also won an Academy Award for his roll in The Informer. But yeah I think npal was lookin for fighters playing actual fighters . :

cybox · Post by **cybox** » 14 Mar 2006, 00:06

Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini - Doug McKeon "Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story"

Alexis Arguello - Stevew Sotelo "Heart of a Champion"

Bruce The Mouse Strauss - John Savage " The Mouse"
Frank "Gator" Lux - Tim Williams "The Mouse"
Ron Stander - Edward Lynch "The Mouse"

Arsenal · Post by **Arsenal** » 14 Mar 2006, 05:04

expug wrote:
Arsenal wrote:
expug wrote:Victor McGlaglen in The Quiet Man.

LOL Quality!

I assume thats a joke?
No joke . Look it up. He also won an Academy Award for his roll in The Informer. But yeah I think npal was lookin for fighters playing actual fighters . :

No I mean that the roles John Wayne and Victor McGlaglen played were not real people.

Expug · Post by **Expug** » 14 Mar 2006, 09:35

Yes . At first I sorta had the topic wrong. Now I got it . ... some times it takes a while...

Friedie · Post by **Friedie** » 14 Mar 2006, 12:28

npalboxing wrote: Max Schmeling – William Thourlby in ‘The Joe Louis Story’, Til Schweiger in ‘Joe & Max’

+ Stephen Macht in 'Ring of Passion'

delisa · Post by **delisa** » 15 Mar 2006, 13:10

Here is a good one --

Tom Molyneaux was played by Frank Craig, the Ol' Harlem Coffee Cooler in a silent film in 1926!

Musashi · Post by **Musashi** » 16 Mar 2006, 07:24

delisa wrote:Here is a good one --

Tom Molyneaux was played by Frank Craig, the Ol' Harlem Coffee Cooler in a silent film in 1926!

That's going wayyy back. Where'd you find out about that one at?

Owain · Post by **Owain** » 16 Apr 2006, 00:46

Jorge wrote:Johnny Owen (God Bless) and Lupe Pintor as themselves in Faces of Death.

It's not a movie, it's a video clip on a sick website. Wholly inapproriate for this thread and wholly inappropriate (understatement) for any decent person with morals.

BrocktonBlockbuster49 · Post by **BrocktonBlockbuster49** » 16 Apr 2006, 01:03

jersey joe walcott and max baer in "harder they fall"

Migz · Post by **Migz** » 20 Apr 2006, 03:26

well it wasnt actually about him but based loosely on his life story Primo Carnera played by anthony quinn in Requim For A Heavyweight i think the name he used was mountain rivera

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