Boxing in movies

[Clegg]

[boogbx]

My favorite boxing movies ever are Gladiator with Cuba Gooding Jr and Penitentiary 1 and 2.

Tubi the app has all 3 films and I highly recommend them. Also in Gladiator John Seda was a silver gloves amatuer back on the east coast. He can actually fight.

[Quercusalba]

My favorite boxing movies ever are Gladiator with Cuba Gooding Jr and Penitentiary 1 and 2.

Tubi the app has all 3 films and I highly recommend them. Also in Gladiator John Seda was a silver gloves amatuer back on the east coast. He can actually fight.

Gladiator, now that's a blast from the past. Being from Chicago and loving boxing, I was obsessed with that movie when I was a kid. Brian Dennehy plays a great villain in that one. Good mention!

[Lomadeaux]

Been a while since I've seen it but Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe had the most realistic boxing scenes I've seen in film.

Minus a few spots in Rocky 1 (because of film date and not as advanced technology)... it's actually very good.

First movie the "Steady Cam" was used in.

[b Murphington]

"Play It to the Bone" with Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson has some of the worst boxing I've ever seen in a movie. It's also an all around awful film in every possible way.

The set up is kind of funny though. But it’s so drawn out and by the time you get to the actual boxing, you don’t even care. And I love Woody. But yeah that movie was hard to stomach. The boxing that we did get to see was just cringe. It’s essentially a road trip to Vegas. With a quick boxing scene at the end. That’s really what it was.

[b Murphington]

I think that scene with Gabe in the first Creed was one of the best scenes of boxing that we’ve seen. The way it’s done is just impressive. It’s a long take. That’s impressive. Not only that, but the boxing was pretty realistic. As far as realism, I think that scene takes the cake.

[b Murphington]

I think the funniest boxing movie is The Great White Hype and it’s probably the most realistic look at the behind the scenes workings of boxing in general.

[b Murphington]

[b Murphington]

[b Murphington]

If any of you guys have never seen The Great White Hype, you need to. Funniest boxing movie ever made.