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First of I don't really want to get into a how good he was, or how good Green could have been debate as this has been done to death over the last few months on this Forum.

However the specific question I do have is regarding the suppose influence Mitch Green was on the cult film The Warriors (a very good film by the way if you have not seen it).

I am sure like many of us here you have heard and read all about Greens repiutation and antics as a feared gang leader and the often quoted 'fact' that he was an in-part an insperation for the The Warriors film.

But is this true or just Boxing hype and rumour? I have never read anything about the film relating to Blood Green, but I did find this information about the film.

Loosely based on Xenophon's "Anabasis", the account of an army of Greek mercenaries who, after aligning themselves with Cyrus the Younger in the battle of Cunaxa (401 BC) in his attempt to seize the Persian throne, found themselves isolated behind Persian enemy lines.

The Warriors.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/



MITCH 'BLOOD' GREEN.
http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/green0607.jpg

the script was taken from a 1974 book.that was 32 years ago.what was green about 16-18 years old?
i doubt there is any truth to the rumor.

I have been a friend of Green's for about 10 years. I asked him about The Warriors rumor last year around the time of his fight in Memphis. He said he didn't know of any influence that he supposedly had on the film.

WhiteShadow wrote:I have been a friend of Green's for about 10 years. I asked him about The Warriors rumor last year around the time of his fight in Memphis. He said he didn't know of any influence that he supposedly had on the film.

Thanks.

Didn't Tyson flatten him in the ring and in a street fight?

No. He lost a decision to Tyson in '86 and was sucker-punched by him in '88.

ringsider wrote:Didn't Tyson flatten him in the ring and in a street fight?

No & no.

Well let us see. Tyson beat him up in the ring, and he beat him up on the street. That counts...... As everyone around here likes to say, " what are you guys Mitch "Blood" Green nut huggers?" Maybe it should be Mitch "I get beat till I bleed" Green. He was a chump.

ringsider wrote:Well let us see. Tyson beat him up in the ring, and he beat him up on the street. That counts......

You first said flattened, which didn't happen Tyson outpointed him, Green was never knocked down in that fight I feel I need to inform you.

ringsider wrote:As everyone around here likes to say, " what are you guys Mitch "Blood" Green nut huggers?" Maybe it should be Mitch "I get beat till I bleed" Green. He was a chump.

Your just upset because Mitch wasn't a southpaw.

Your just upset because Mitch wasn't a southpaw.

Nope, that fact was the only thing he had going for him!!!