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Goodnight, Irene wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:... which hasn't been done already?

I say George Foreman.

It could start with his loss to Ali, with the middle portion being human-interest, and the third act being his comeback, with key fights (the first one, the one against Cooney which turned him from a curiosity to a contender again, Holyfield). The finale would, of course, be the Hollywoodesque Moorer win. Anything after that is superfluous to the narrative.

I've been saying it for years. He's so marketable, recognisable, & the story is simply an astonishing one.

It's surprising & unfortunate it has not received any attempts.

jrc26 wrote:

Goodnight, Irene wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:... which hasn't been done already?

I say George Foreman.

It could start with his loss to Ali, with the middle portion being human-interest, and the third act being his comeback, with key fights (the first one, the one against Cooney which turned him from a curiosity to a contender again, Holyfield). The finale would, of course, be the Hollywoodesque Moorer win. Anything after that is superfluous to the narrative.

I've been saying it for years. He's so marketable, recognisable, & the story is simply an astonishing one.

It's surprising & unfortunate it has not received any attempts.

He didn't have many lines (if any?) but the guy who played Foreman in "Ali" looked remarkably like George. That was 10 years ago though, and who knows if he can act. And as I say that I looked it up and it was actually Charles Shufford. And Michael Bentt played Liston? Damian Wills played Ken Norton.

The only one I recognized in that movie was James Toney.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:

jrc26 wrote:

Goodnight, Irene wrote: I've been saying it for years. He's so marketable, recognisable, & the story is simply an astonishing one.

It's surprising & unfortunate it has not received any attempts.

He didn't have many lines (if any?) but the guy who played Foreman in "Ali" looked remarkably like George. That was 10 years ago though, and who knows if he can act. And as I say that I looked it up and it was actually Charles Shufford. And Michael Bentt played Liston? Damian Wills played Ken Norton.

The only one I recognized in that movie was James Toney.

I'm pretty sure Norton wasn't a character in that Ali movie...was he? I remember it pretty well, & I can't recall seeing Norton at all.

Anyway, for that flick, they were all real (& mediocre, with the exception of Toney) boxers playing Ali's contemporaries. Shufford indeed did a great job of looking the part as Foreman. He was a little softer in the gut than the real McCoy, but other than that, I noticed the likeness, too.

Aftermath wrote:Bobby Chacon - With a soundtrack that includes Santana, WAR, El Chicano, Brenton Wood and Thee Midniters

Jaywheel wrote:How about JCVD portraying Kassim Ouma? :P

Diamond WEAPON wrote:

Jaywheel wrote:How about JCVD portraying Kassim Ouma? :P

The scenes where JCVD is portraying the child-soldier version of Kassim would be an incredible thing to behold.

Broncano wrote:

Aftermath wrote:Bobby Chacon - With a soundtrack that includes Santana, WAR, El Chicano, Brenton Wood and Thee Midniters

Good one!

Play this one as he remembers wife Valerie and is about to beat Limon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7OTa6ss1E

According to the Nov. 7, 1927 Spokane Spokesman Review newspaper, just prior to Stribling's visit to nearby Dishman, WA: This was not Young Stribling's first visit to the Spokane area. In 1911, he, Ma, Pa, and brother Graham had come to Spokane on the Sullivan and Considine Vaudeville Circuit with an acrobatic act called the "Four Novelty Grahams." They spent one week at the Empress Theater, then called the Washington Theater. As part of the show, the Stribling brothers boxed exhibitions.

Stribling was one of the best high school basketball players in the United States. He was known as a "dead shot" (a very accurate shooter). His team went to the national interscholastic tournament at Chicago, but he was ruled ineligible to play because of his professional boxing. He was also quite talented at golf, hunting, fishing, speedboat racing and tennis. Stribling was also an avid and accomplished aviator who loved to fly.

He died October 3, 1933, after a motorcycle/automobile accident when he was just 28. The accident occurred October 1 outside of Macon, Georgia. Traveling 35 miles per hour on a motorcycle, "Strib" was en route to a hospital to visit his convalescing wife and their brand-new baby (his third child), born two weeks previously. He waved a greeting to a friend passing in an automobile. But he failed to see another car behind that of his friend, Roy Barrow. The veteran of roughly 300 bouts, who never received a permanent scar due to his great defensive skills, attempted to dodge the second car but was too late. The fender of the car struck Stribling, crushing and virtually ripping off his left foot, and sending him to the pavement, fracturing his pelvis.
Stribling Family (1923)

Stribling was taken to the hospital, where, coincidentally, his wife and baby were. His mother rushed to the hospital from the Stribling plantation in South Georgia; his father from Texas. At one point he awoke, saw his wife, and asked, "How's the baby?" Almost to the end he remained conscious, "carrying on in the same spirit that he showed when they picked him up from the roadside on Sunday," reported papers of the day. "Well, kid," he said to his friend (Barrow), who was the first to reach him as he lay beside his wrecked motorcycle with one foot dangling by a single tendon, "I guess this means more roadwork."

At first the doctors held out hope, after they had amputated his left foot. But his vitality began to wane. Physicians were amazed at his ability to cling to life when his temperature hit 107 1/2 degrees and his pulse 175. His wife was wheeled into his room. He recognized his wife.
"W.L.?"
"Sugar," was his barely audible reply.
"Hello, baby," were his last words to her, the papers reported.
His father walked grimly from the room and tearfully said, "He's gone.
Death occurred at 6:00 Tuesday morning, October 3. The next day, his body was placed in the Municipal Auditorium of Macon, to lie in state from 10 in the morning until 6 that evening.

McCannW14 wrote:

turn2stone wrote:stanley ketchel. the story would contain all sorts of high drama both in and out of the ring.

Stanley ketchel
Battling Siki
Battling Nelson
Joe Gans
Tony Ayala jr

southpaw90 wrote:a big budget hollywood blockbuster about mike tyson it would b a smash just like ali was.

southpaw90 wrote:a big budget hollywood blockbuster about mike tyson it would b a smash just like ali was.

yancey wrote:Jerry Quarry's life would make for an interesting film.