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beaujack wrote:

Goodnight, Irene wrote:Hollywood is the key word.

There was a Dempsey film in the 80's, too.

It was made for tv with treat Williams, not a Hollywood picture...

Bought this film on DVD recently. I had not seen it since the night it was shown on TV as part of the build up to the McGuigan v Cruz fight. After watching the Dempsey v Willard fight many times I could'nt believe how well they reconstructed the fight. It was like I was watching the real fight but in colour! It was obvious that they had studied the fight film meticulously. Captured it perfectly I thought.

How was the flick?

I saw it once when I couldnt have been more than twelve, can hardly recall any of it.

There was, incidentally, a 1999 telemovie called Rocky Marciano, which was a pretty damn good watch (the unforgivable exclusion of the first Walcott bout aside). Jon Favreau (who played the title character) wishes he were still in that kinda shape

Goodnight, Irene wrote:How was the flick?

I saw it once when I couldnt have been more than twelve, can hardly recall any of it.

There was, incidentally, a 1999 telemovie called Rocky Marciano, which was a pretty damn good watch (the unforgivable exclusion of the first Walcott bout aside). Jon Favreau (who played the title character) wishes he were still in that kinda shape

What a coincidence! I bought the Rocky Marciano movie at the same time as I did the Dempsey movie. I am in a PAL region and bought both DVDs which are NTSC from Amazon as I couldn't get them in the PAL format. I have a multi region DVD player that will play both movies.

So far I have only watched the Willard fight scene from the Dempsey movie as it stuck in my head from the first time I saw it and wanted to see it again. I'll get to watch it in full this week and I'll let you know.

'Frilla wrote:Id go the Welsh, Wilde.

Vernon Forrest or Diego Corrales?

Run Forrest, Run.

John Sullivan or Ike Ibeabuchi?

Ike of course

Dick Tiger or Benny Lynch?

I think Benny just about gets the nod here, a huge battle with the bottle will make for more dramatics than Tigers taking a stand in the political struggle in Nigeria.

I'll put myself forward for the starring role, being a shortass who likes a drink and struggles to keep my weight down where it belongs.

Salvador Sanchez or Manny Paquiao