Which boxers or fight deserve a movie based on them?

[SthPaw]

Sonny Liston movie would be cool I think.
Hard childhood, mob ties, controversial fights (not to mention his two with Ali and the build up to their first fight) mysterious death, run-ins with the law...I dunno I just think it could be cool if done right.

Jack Dempsey could be a good one too.

[K-DOGG]

Joe Louis....besides his autobiography

Rocky Marciano....a better one

Ray Robinson

Jack Johnson....something more complete than the James Earl Jones play which was remade into a movie, though that was a classic performance.

Larry Holmes

Mike Tyson...a more fully encompassing one

And Muhammad Ali.....something more than a thinly disguised remake of "The Greatest". I was solo disappointed with "Ali". Someone needs to do a real story showing the man behind the public persona he created.

Oh, and Joe Frazier.....nobody ever focusses on the life of this great champion.


In truth, there are scores of fighters who deserve there stories to be told, more than I can count. Johnny Tapia, Ezzard Charles, Roberto Duran, Diego Corrals, Frank Bruno, The list goes on and on.

Every fighter has a story worth hearing.

[BuckToothed]

How bout an Oscar De La Hoya movie? It'll start with him putting on his fishnets while he thinks back of when he won his Olympic gold medal. Then the movie will climax with the Pacquiao upset, movie will then fade into him doing a line of coke. The director will film it like Scarface.

[K-DOGG]

How bout an Oscar De La Hoya movie? It'll start with him putting on his fishnets while he thinks back of when he won his Olympic gold medal. Then the movie will climax with the Pacquiao upset, movie will then fade into him doing a line of coke. The director will film it like Scarface.

Damn. Lol!! Just....Damn.

[K-DOGG]

Sonny Liston movie would be cool I think.
Hard childhood, mob ties, controversial fights (not to mention his two with Ali and the build up to their first fight) mysterious death, run-ins with the law...I dunno I just think it could be cool if done right.

Jack Dempsey could be a good one too.

Liston would be great. Already a pretty good film about Jack, "Dempsey", I think......got it on old VHS somewhere.

[SthPaw]

Liston would be great. Already a pretty good film about Jack, "Dempsey", I think......got it on old VHS somewhere.

Ah ok thanks man, I didn't know that but I did think while I wrote this that maybe there could be an old one somewhere, but a modern one would still be cool.

But yeah, if I had to pick a fighter I would like to see a movie on I think I would go with Sonny. His life and career together would make for a great story when translating to film.