BoxRec

As the cinderella man film has been (somewhat) salated over in its own thread was just wondering what the best boxing films are...

Hurricane is great, but discredited for its accuracies.
Raging bull is the obvious one

thoughts?

Rocky is an obvious one.

Midnight Sting/Diggstown was pretty entertaining.

Great White Hype was good too although a little dated with the rise of the European heavyweights.

As a kid 'Rocky 3' was a great one, with Clubber Lang.

Great Film is " Some One Up There Likes Me "


As a kid i use to watch Rocky 4 before every fight

I haven't seen too many boxing films, but the one which stands out for me is the original Rocky film, sure the sequels were more action packed and fun to watch when I were younger but when you look back at them now they are just the typical cliched sports movie with the over-the-top come from behind victory at the end, the first one was much more than that.

Raging Bull is a good film, I think it is overrated though but DeNiro gives a top class performance.

All the Rocky's
Cinderella man
Raging Bull
The Champ

Raging Bull is the best by a mile IMO, followed by Rocky 1 and 2 (and 3,4 and 6), The Champ and On The Waterfront....

Some are quite amusing, like Great White Hype and Play it to the Bone, but generally they are shite..

Rocky is good poor acting should of put on subtitles I liked Raging Bull also ALI was alright

Anyone seen "The Greatest" it was on itv 3 or 4 a few weeks ago

its terrible

Ali is played by soemone else when hes young just back from olympics
then he plays himself against sony Liston

he looks really old though and struggling to recreate his trash talk to liston

cinderella man

great film ,the bit where he has to go round the gentlemans club with the beggers hat would bring a tear to a glass eye!

have you got a hat Kev

kevin mac wrote:cinderella man

great film ,the bit where he has to go round the gentlemans club with the beggers hat would bring a tear to a glass eye!

cant afford 1!

Gazmac81 wrote:have you got a hat Kev

kevin mac wrote:cinderella man

great film ,the bit where he has to go round the gentlemans club with the beggers hat would bring a tear to a glass eye!

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I like homeboy with mickey rourke, christopher wakden and iran barkley

I like homeboy with mickey rourke, christopher wakden and iran barkley

I like homeboy with mickey rourke, christopher wakden and iran barkley

Gazmac81 wrote:Anyone seen "The Greatest" it was on itv 3 or 4 a few weeks ago

its terrible

Ali is played by soemone else when hes young just back from olympics
then he plays himself against sony Liston

he looks really old though and struggling to recreate his trash talk to liston

I saw it mate, fornicating awful.......the young Ali looked nothing like him and it was all about him working as a bloody gardener of something for the first half an hour.

What about Gladiator with Cuba Gooding Jnr, very good film. anyone who said Rocky 1 is bad acting just doesn't understand the film.

teddy007 wrote:What about Gladiator with Cuba Gooding Jnr, very good film. anyone who said Rocky 1 is bad acting just doesn't understand the film.

Not seen Gladiator but I agree with you on Rocky, he's supposed to be a thick, lumbering oaf and the part is played to perfection and the rest of the acting is top notch as well.

I liked The Boxer with daniel day lewis

Kodak Ultramax always seems to yield decent results.

along the same lines , has anyone seen 'The Wrestler' yet?

Requiem for a Heavyweight is a rather dark and sad look at life and the boxer being betrayed. But worth a watch.

The Harder they Fall is very entertaining

Story of a foreign heavyweight controlled by the mafia who climbs up the ranks in rigged matches. The actor looks like Primo Carnera and he eventually he fights the real Max Baer. Jersey Joe Walcott plays his trainer and Bogart is the washed up hacked hired to look after him. Great stuff.


Million Dollar Baby is the worst film ever to win an Oscar. Girlfight is ten times better.

Gentleman Jim is an excellent portayal of Corbett's defeat of the seemingly invincible John L. Sullivan. Freddie Steele performs the footwork scenes in the film (world middleweight champion). It stars Errol Flynn, who always said it was the best film he ever made.

Flashing Blade wrote:The Harder they Fall is very entertaining

Story of a foreign heavyweight controlled by the mafia who climbs up the ranks in rigged matches. The actor looks like Primo Carnera and he eventually he fights the real Max Baer. Jersey Joe Walcott plays his trainer and Bogart is the washed up hacked hired to look after him. Great stuff.


Million Dollar Baby is the worst film ever to win an Oscar. Girlfight is ten times better.

I'm a Humphrey Bogart fan and always wanted to see that film. I just looked it up on ebay and brought it for £3 including delivery. What a bargain! Apparently The Harder they Fall was Humphrey Bogart last film. He died a year later.