Real boxers in films/tv shows?

[gilgamesh]

Yep They Live is the best movie starring a Professional Wrestler by a HUGE margin. Nothing else even comes close.

[oogiebe]

Also as we are counting commercials:

Sonny Liston (with Andy Warhol next to him) for TWA
Michael Carbajal for Emergency Chiropractors (a local Phoenix company)
Evander Holyfield for Diet Coke
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. for an English learning program (the joke there being that he does not speak English) and for a local law firm in Phoenix
Oscar de La Hoya for the same English learning program (the joke there being that he was BORN speaking English!) and for McDonalds)
Marlen Esparza for McDonald's and Cover Girl.

Wasn't Joe Frazier in a aftershave commercial where he knocks himself out?

[gilgamesh]

Also as we are counting commercials:

Sonny Liston (with Andy Warhol next to him) for TWA
Michael Carbajal for Emergency Chiropractors (a local Phoenix company)
Evander Holyfield for Diet Coke
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. for an English learning program (the joke there being that he does not speak English) and for a local law firm in Phoenix
Oscar de La Hoya for the same English learning program (the joke there being that he was BORN speaking English!) and for McDonalds)
Marlen Esparza for McDonald's and Cover Girl.

Wasn't Joe Frazier in a aftershave commercial where he knocks himself out?

Marvin Hagler was in a commercial for Right Guard deodorant where he was talking all classy about how one would hate to smell malodorous to one's chums

Sugar Ray Leonard was in a 7 up commercial, and I'm sure several others.

George Foreman was in commercials for...I mean, how much time ya got?

[mjaco]

It may strike uncomfortably close to home for a lot of them. Pro wrestling's an inherently weird business and attracts a lot of people who are sort of on the margins of society or are just sort of problemed. I interviewed Roddy Piper once and he said something like he never had a family so wrestling became his surrogate dysfunctional family. He was a very nice, soft spoken guy, by the way, the total opposite of his wrestling character.




Spider Rico? He's a bum!


Also Joe Louis had a cameo in an episode of Quincy M.E. Jack Dempsey appeared in several silent films. If you start looking, you'll probably find every undisputed heavyweight champion since Dempsey has appeared in some sort of movie or TV show.

Roddy Piper I seen in a film called They Live. Think it was considered a B movie at the time.... but now its known as a classic because it's like a conspiracy type film about the illuminati and society. Or something lol. The fight he has with that black dude trying to get him to wear the sunglasses is funny as eff

Also Tommy Morrison is in it as a small role ... but didnt see him myself

There was a great spoof of that fight in a South Park episode I think was called "Cripple Fight."

[gilgamesh]

You are correct sir

[gilgamesh]

You are correct sir

Whose correct? And about what?

He was correct about the spoof of that fight scene on an episode of Southpark, and the title of said episode.

[gilgamesh]

Yep They Live is the best movie starring a Professional Wrestler by a HUGE margin. Nothing else even comes close.

Better than Rocky 4?

There's a wrestler in Rocky IV?

[gilgamesh]

There's a wrestler in Rocky IV?

Sorry meant 3

Oh....well considering that Hogan isn't the star of the film he's just a cameo in it. I stand by my statement.

And for the record, IMO They Live is a better movie than Rocky 3. Though I enjoy both a lot.

[oogiebe]

Yep They Live is the best movie starring a Professional Wrestler by a HUGE margin. Nothing else even comes close.

Better than Rocky 4?

Ready to Rumble was the best with real wrestlers. Hysterical.

[gilgamesh]

Oh....well considering that Hogan isn't the star of the film he's just a cameo in it. I stand by my statement.

And for the record, IMO They Live is a better movie than Rocky 3. Though I enjoy both a lot.

Mr T is in both Rocky 3 and briefly in 4. And he’s a professional wrestler. Agree on they Live is better

I mean he's a wrestler the same way that Zeus "Tiny" Lister is a wrestler.

He's an actor that had a few matches. I don't consider him a wrestler. More of a Special Guest in the wacky world of Wrestling.

[gilgamesh]

Better than Rocky 4?

Ready to Rumble was the best with real wrestlers. Hysterical.

That movie is a steaming pile of sh*t.

[oogiebe]

Ready to Rumble was the best with real wrestlers. Hysterical.

That movie is a steaming pile of sh*t.

You have no sense of humor.

[gilgamesh]

That movie is a steaming pile of sh*t.

You have no sense of humor.

I have this thing where I only laugh at stuff that's funny.

[oogiebe]

You have no sense of humor.

I have this thing where I only laugh at stuff that's funny.

SMH.

[AntonioMartin]

Wasn't Joe Frazier in a aftershave commercial where he knocks himself out?

Marvin Hagler was in a commercial for Right Guard deodorant where he was talking all classy about how one would hate to smell malodorous to one's chums

Sugar Ray Leonard was in a 7 up commercial, and I'm sure several others.

Hagler was also in a Pizza Hut commercial..."this is the only time Im on TV that my mom watches" or something like that...

Wilfredo Gomez was in the Spanish version of it with his first daughter, Gina who asked him for a slice and then he says "this is the only time I allow my daughter near me when I am on TV..Pizza Hut's pizza brings us together!" or something similar hehe...

Roberto Duran was also in a Seven_Up commercial with SRL!

[Paci]

Hagler is a treasure!

[zuru]

Lennox Lewis in Johnny Was

[Turpinr]

Freddie Mills was in carry on constable and carry on regardless.Eric boy Boon was in one of them.
Jack kid Berg was a stuntman in a few films.
Terry Downes was in a horror film.
Billy Walker was in up Pompeii
John H Stracey was in one of the films about the Kray twins

[AngryGoon38]

George Foreman also appeared on an episode of Sanford and Son

Muhammad Ali was on an episode of Diff'rent Strokes

Roberto Duran asks Richard Pryor if he wanted him to "Kicky ass" in Harlem Nights. "No, no Kicky ass, Thank you Roberto"

Duran was also on an episode of Miami Vice I think, and maybe a few other shows.

A shitty B movie called Penitentiary 2 has a brief cameo from Archie Moore.

There's oodles more, but I'll let the other kids play, and answer some.

"Roberto Duran" as A sparring partner for Rocky Balboa (Stallone)in Rocky 2.
"Randy Ted Cobb" as The Opponent in "The Champ".
Jersey Joe Walcott as "Ole Joe", in The Harder they Fall".
Mickey Rourke...?!(Countless Roles, figuritively speaking).
Tony Danza..?!(Same as Rourke, basically).
Victor McLoughlin(The Quiet Man, The Unholy Three)
Sugar Ray Leonard (The Grave Digger, in a 1992 episode of Tales from the Crypt).
John Duddy. He's been Acting in Independent type Flix lately.
Jack O'Halloran. Superman 2.
Mike Tyson. I've seen him in Crocodile Dundee 3, and in a role where he's fighting Vann Damme.
Lou Costello. A Pretty Decent Boxer before the Abbott and Costello phenomenon. Still a formidable fighter until he became afflicted with Rheumatic Fever.

[evrenb]

Terry Downes was brilliant as the Hunchback in 'Dance of the Vampires' ...one of my favourite films. Also featured Sharon Tate, who was so incredibly beautiful.

[Ruthless-RKO]

A life size cut out of Holyfield appeared on Friend.

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Frank Bruno appeared in the film, Cass, a film about the notorious football hooligan, Cass Pennant.

[oogiebe]

That heavyweight Catalino (sp?) in paradise alley.

[IRONFIST]

There was a feature on The Footage Detectives on Talking Pictures a few weeks/months back where they mentioned several old British fighters used to appear as extras in the old b/w British films. A viewer had pointed it out to them.

[keithmoonhangover]

Holyfield is in a movie called Unnecessary Roughness.
Tyson is in a decent James Toback movie called Black & White which has a few rappers in it, Ben Stiller, RDJ and the late Britney Murphy.