The 2015 Boxing movie 'Southpaw'

[cupocity303]

Who has seen it? I haven't yet.

But isn't it another blow to Boxing by depicting the life of a White American Boxer (not eastern-european, German or British), even though I can't think of one since Kelly Pavlik, who was a anomaly himself, as most white fighters have been chased out of Boxing and gone to the MMA. We can give them a pass for "The Fighter" as they at least cherry picked a real boxer in Micky Ward, but a fictional one? This is like doing a remake of the Robocop and placing him right back in Detroit - where the bigger fiction is the premise that white people are still living there there rather then Robocop himself.

Are they doing this because they're out of touch or did they conclude that a black character wasn't gonna sell? How did the movie do at the theaters?At least Stallone is trying something different with the movie "Creed" featuring Apollo Creed's supposed son as a up and coming fighter.

[Eff Pandas]

Its a movie mfer! It ain't that serious. But yea you definitely increase your box office if more people care about your hero & Donnie Darko is gonna get more people caring if he wins or loses in a fictional ring then if Taye Diggs or Borat was the hero.

[asgarth]

Well the Rocky Spinoff Creed features a black boxer for a change

[bigjavi973]

Who has seen it? I haven't yet.

But isn't it another blow to Boxing by depicting the life of a White American Boxer (not eastern-european, German or British), even though I can't think of one since Kelly Pavlik, who was a anomaly himself, as most white fighters have been chased out of Boxing and gone to the MMA. We can give them a pass for "The Fighter" as they at least cherry picked a real boxer in Micky Ward, but a fictional one? This is like doing a remake of the Robocop and placing him right back in Detroit - where the bigger fiction is the premise that white people are still living there there rather then Robocop himself.

Are they doing this because they're out of touch or did they conclude that a black character wasn't gonna sell? How did the movie do at the theaters?At least Stallone is trying something different with the movie "Creed" featuring Apollo Creed's supposed son as a up and coming fighter.

Eminem was supposed to star in the movie. They wanted the father-daughter thing he brings but then he pulled out they put the other dude in. That was a month after they started that Eminem left.

Ima skip this one & wait for the vinny paz movie, Bleed For This, to come out.

[King_]

I agree. All these boxing movies with White-American boxers are pretty silly. Are they just trying to appeal to the masses? Surely.


Just about EVERY semi-successful American (non-immigrant-relocated foreign fighter) boxer is non-White American.


This **** is played out. A far more American boxing movie would of been one with the main character being latino or black. Or if they really want to try something new, how about they make one with the main character being Filipino or Eastern European.


Definitely disrespectful to boxing. Not only that but these are the type of movies that make the casuals think boxing is about slugging it out to the death, with absolute no realism, and then you add the fake characters and BOOM. A big crock of ****.

[AddiX]

Black people don't have a lot of $ as a race, so companies don't spend time/resources marketing to them.

Simple economics.

Yall trying to play the race card with this too, that's your damn problem, always blaming someone else for there own damn problems.

[La_Vibora]

Oh come on guys! Its not that serious. Boxing movies nowadays aren't that marketable to start with, it is even less marketable with a minority star (unless of course it is an established brand like "Rocky" as you see with the movie "Creed"), how about we do our jobs as boxing fans and show support to this movie so that we can help the sport we love and the boxers that put their lives on the line to entertain us, stay in the forefront to continue growing.

[-PBP-]

I'm more bothered that the guy fights orthodox in a movie called southpaw.

[JaguaresMx]

Black people don't have a lot of $ as a race, so companies don't spend time/resources marketing to them.

Simple economics.

Yall trying to play the race card with this too, that's your damn problem, always blaming someone else for there own damn problems.

Explain Empire then

The african american market is actually quite developed, just not in ways you recognize mr Trump

[FlatLine]

While it's true that there are more boxing movies, generally speaking, made about white characters, we got quite a selection of movies starring black or asian characters too. Check some of these out if you haven't seen them:

The Great White Hope (1970)
Penitentiary I (1979)
Midnight Sting (1992)
The Hurricane (1992)
Tokyo Fist (1995)
Ali (2001)
Blood of a Champion (2005)
Nurse. Fighter. Boy (2008)
Penitentiary II (2008)
Creed (2015)