Boxing movies, The greatest, the worst

[LacedUp]

Raging Bull is the greatest movie that has anything to do with boxing.

^^ This. "The great white hype" is alright, so is "the fighter". I like the rocky movies for entertainment, but they don't have anything to do with boxing. "Ali" was also alright.

Oh, and "Cinderella man" was surprisingly good. The story of Jim Braddock is very underestimated as one of the greatest upsets in HW boxing history. "The hurricane", not really boxing, but still a great movie.

[ShamrockXpress]

Raging bull is the best movie associated with boxing, the rocky films are the most fun too watch, but for me the great white hype is my favirote. The dynamic between Rev. Sultan and Julio escobar ( Jackson and Marin ) is exactly how I believe it was between don king and don Jose suliaman in the 90s.

[JOM'S]

for most of us movies are for entertainment, that's why rocky the movie were great movies, well at least for me rocky 1-4, this gave a lot of attention to boxing, heck Stallone is in BHOF for these movies...

Million Dollar Baby was good watch but did not like the tragic ending..

[negativegain]

all the obvious films have been mentioned, so i'll throw out a couple of forgotten ones:

play it to the bone, with woody harrelson and antonio banderas

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196857/

diggstown, with james woods and louis gossett jr.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104107/?ref_=sr_2

both were entertaining if my memory serves correctly, but it has been quite some time since i've seen either.

[JOM'S]

all the obvious films have been mentioned, so i'll trow out a couple of forgotten ones:

play it to the bone, with woody harrelson and antonio banderas

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196857/

diggstown, with james woods and louis gossett jr.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104107/?ref_=sr_2

both were entertaining if my memory serves correctly, but it has been quite some time since i've seen either.

thanks bro, I have seen play it to the bone and is fun movie to watch as well but I have yet to see diggstown...

[Makunouchi]

That Bugsy Malone bit made me laugh so hard thought I blew out an ulcer. Personally I really enjoyed the A****a No Joe movie based off the manga of the same name. Also enjoyed Cinderella Man, think Ali was good but I honestly don't remember it that well watched it when I was much younger.
I personally think the Rocky movies are highly overrated. Of course maybe its an age thing but they seem really corny to me when I try to go back and watch them. Other bad boxing movies would include Counter Punch, and Teen Wolf Too hehe.