Which boxers or fight deserve a movie based on them?

[pacmanis1]

We've got Ali, Raging Bull, The Fighter, and Cinderella Man, but what other ones do we deserve?

Personally for me I think HANDS DOWN Joe Louis vs Max Schmelling deserves to be a major motion picture. I just don't see with all the things surrounding the fight how that isn't the stuff movies are made of. I actually just did a google search and apparently there was a made for tv movie about these two, but that's not enough for me (I plan to try and find this movie and if you've seen it let me know if it's any good).

My second choice goes to the Tyson vs Buster Douglas fight. An underachiever who's mom dies a few weeks before the biggest fight of his life and goes on to have one of the greatest upsets in sports, yup, that's the stuff movies are made of.

What do you guys say?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Interesting stories that would make great movie ala raging bull


1. Mike Tyson
2 hector Camacho
3 johnny tapia
4 Hopkins
5 Duran
6 Arturo gatti
7 george foreman
8 rid**** bowe
9 evander holyfield
10 Ray leonard

[Sugar Adam Ali]

If you wanted to make a movie about a series of fights then I think casting leonard, Duran, hagler,mand hearns and following their careers from late 70s to the 90s, focusing heavily on all the superfights and lifestyle they were leading outside the ring...

[Memo Heroidia]

uhhhhh flod maywether obviosly deserves a movie he IS the best ever!
that movie gonna make like a brillion dollas yo. beleive that!

[Ruthless One]

uhhhhh flod maywether obviosly deserves a movie he IS the best ever!
that movie gonna make like a brillion dollas yo. beleive that!

Brillion, lol

[jri9d0]

Interesting stories that would make great movie ala raging bull


1. Mike Tyson
2 hector Camacho
3 johnny tapia
4 Hopkins
5 Duran
6 Arturo gatti
7 george foreman
8 rid**** bowe
9 evander holyfield
10 Ray leonard

Great list. I would add Bobby Chacon, Wilfred Benitez and Wilfredo Gomez.

Kudos for the excellent choice of fighters.

[Box-Office]

I would like to see a movie on a boxer from a non-Anglo country because we would not know too much about him. For instance I really enjoyed All Access episodes on Lara and Maidana. So, keeping that theme in mind I'd like a Orlando Salido movie.

[pacmanis1]

Interesting stories that would make great movie ala raging bull


1. Mike Tyson
2 hector Camacho
3 johnny tapia
4 Hopkins
5 Duran
6 Arturo gatti
7 george foreman
8 rid**** bowe
9 evander holyfield
10 Ray leonard

I think Tapia has a story that was made for the big screen.

[pacmanis1]

I would like to see a movie on a boxer from a non-Anglo country because we would not know too much about him. For instance I really enjoyed All Access episodes on Lara and Maidana. So, keeping that theme in mind I'd like a Orlando Salido movie.

Matthysse would also possibly be a good option. I mean cmon, a guy who eats lizards is a something crazy.

[Mr. Miyagi]

Ali Raymi..