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[Willie Pep 229]

Why don't you get back to explaining the felony charges and prison term you feel Briggs should have received for making a tiny wave the made poor Wlad fall of his paddle board?

OK I have followed you two down more than a few rabbit holes but this one is really deep and weird.

What the hell are you two referring to?

[Willie Pep 229]

Why don't you get back to explaining the felony charges and prison term you feel Briggs should have received for making a tiny wave the made poor Wlad fall of his paddle board?

I have been doing some thinking . . . (There's an opening for an insult from Lefty.) . . . HW Champion movies . . .

Dempsey got a two a night mini series when he passed.

Braddock got Russel Crowe and Cinderella man.

Joe Louis got two that I can remember: The Joe Louis Story (A typical 1950s Hollywood white-wash.) and Joe and Max (Which was a good film.) Hope I got that title correct.

Corbett - Gentleman Jim (A fun but historically terrible film with a great recreation of an illegal fight on a barge.)

Carnera - disguised in The Harder they Fall

Ali - Will Smith's Ali; there was also an early 70s film but I'll he dammed of I can recall the title.

Tyson - HBO docudrama

Johnson - Great White Hope

Marciano - Ricky Marciano

Have I missed any? Liston would be a great topic but that's the sort of thing Soul Survivor was complaining about (understandably)

I just did this personal little brainstorming because I am thinking that the Great John L. Sullivan is a perfect topic no one has touched as of yet. I would actually like to see his history and some recreations of his fights.

[JAB5239]

Isn't the Hartio Alger story from rags to riches pretty much all the Duran movie was?

Not sure how many times you can tell the same story and get box-office.

I think Soul Survivor was arguing that Black fighters are ignored unless their story is negative because the system is racist. Maybe I misunderstood but I don't see Hoppkins being the answer to that problem.

Is there anything else about him other than his unnatural longevity that would excite an audience?

Sorry I don't recognize the other two.

You have a point about telling the same story.

Here is an article le about Ouma. This in my opinion would be movie worthy were someone to make it.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/jul/29/boxing.features

[JAB5239]

OK I have followed you two down more than a few rabbit holes but this one is really deep and weird.

What the hell are you two referring to?

His claim in another thread that Wlad could of pressed felony charges under maritime law against Briggs and that Shannon would still be in prison. I've been trying to get him to answer what felony Briggs could have been charged with, yet he cannot answer the question. It's just more of him making things up with nothing to back it up. I probably shouldn't have crossed it over to this thread, but I can't stand a liar or someone who just makes things up.

[QueensburyRules]

Why don't you get back to explaining the felony charges and prison term you feel Briggs should have received for making a tiny wave the made poor Wlad fall of his paddle board?

- - Much easier and more lucrative to paddle U schoolgrrl hindside than throw pearls before swine.

[OctoberRed]

Na he had no crossover appeal into the world of sport. HBO won't put that kind of money into a Hopkins docudrama (a documentary yes they probably own enough film of him already) and there doesn't seem enough there for a feature film.

I expect a Nico Ali Walsh doc by next year

[JAB5239]

- - Much easier and more lucrative to paddle U schoolgrrl hindside than throw pearls before swine.

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[QueensburyRules]

I have been doing some thinking . . . (There's an opening for an insult from Lefty.) . . . HW Champion movies . . .

Dempsey got a two a night mini series when he passed.

Braddock got Russel Crowe and Cinderella man.

Joe Louis got two that I can remember: The Joe Louis Story (A typical 1950s Hollywood white-wash.) and Joe and Max (Which was a good film.) Hope I got that title correct.

Corbett - Gentleman Jim (A fun but historically terrible film with a great recreation of an illegal fight on a barge.)

Carnera - disguised in The Harder they Fall

Ali - Will Smith's Ali; there was also an early 70s film but I'll he dammed of I can recall the title.

Tyson - HBO docudrama

Johnson - Great White Hope

Marciano - Ricky Marciano

Have I missed any? Liston would be a great topic but that's the sort of thing Soul Survivor was complaining about (understandably)

I just did this personal little brainstorming because I am thinking that the Great John L. Sullivan is a perfect topic no one has touched as of yet. I would actually like to see his history and some recreations of his fights.

- - You're thinkin' the movie of Ali's somewhat fraudulent autobio "The Greatest" starring Guess Who?

1976/77 I was exiting my lawyer's downtown office to walk smack dab into the film crew having set up during the 30 min I was with my lawyer. Ali was in a pink Caddy convertible he had just driven up to next to a phone booth, remember them? Screaming a bunch of jibber jabber I couldn't make out, he jumped out to jump in, literally, the booth to ring up some people he screamed more jibber jabber to before jumping out and back into his caddy still screaming jibber jabber driving off a half block as the filming ended.

I had seen his jibberjabber act previous in a public sparring session with Terrell and he before their fight, only now I was older and wiser to his jibber jabber. The film bombed or so I recall, but oddly I might be in it as an unwitting bystander since I crossed the street to see if I could understand his jibber jabber.

[OctoberRed]

I have been doing some thinking . . . (There's an opening for an insult from Lefty.) . . . HW Champion movies . . .

Dempsey got a two a night mini series when he passed.

Braddock got Russel Crowe and Cinderella man.

Joe Louis got two that I can remember: The Joe Louis Story (A typical 1950s Hollywood white-wash.) and Joe and Max (Which was a good film.) Hope I got that title correct.

Corbett - Gentleman Jim (A fun but historically terrible film with a great recreation of an illegal fight on a barge.)

Carnera - disguised in The Harder they Fall

Ali - Will Smith's Ali; there was also an early 70s film but I'll he dammed of I can recall the title.

Tyson - HBO docudrama

Johnson - Great White Hope

Marciano - Ricky Marciano

Have I missed any? Liston would be a great topic but that's the sort of thing Soul Survivor was complaining about (understandably)

I just did this personal little brainstorming because I am thinking that the Great John L. Sullivan is a perfect topic no one has touched as of yet. I would actually like to see his history and some recreations of his fights.

I might give Cinderella Man another watch after reading this. It's been a while.

[lopetego]

I have been doing some thinking . . . (There's an opening for an insult from Lefty.) . . . HW Champion movies . . .

Dempsey got a two a night mini series when he passed.

Braddock got Russel Crowe and Cinderella man.

Joe Louis got two that I can remember: The Joe Louis Story (A typical 1950s Hollywood white-wash.) and Joe and Max (Which was a good film.) Hope I got that title correct.

Corbett - Gentleman Jim (A fun but historically terrible film with a great recreation of an illegal fight on a barge.)

Carnera - disguised in The Harder they Fall

Ali - Will Smith's Ali; there was also an early 70s film but I'll he dammed of I can recall the title.

Tyson - HBO docudrama

Johnson - Great White Hope

Marciano - Ricky Marciano

Have I missed any? Liston would be a great topic but that's the sort of thing Soul Survivor was complaining about (understandably)

There's a Max Schmeling movie called Fist of the Reich, I saw it but can hardly remember anything so it must have been pretty meh