Comments Thread For: Sylvester Stallone Reveals Plans To Make Film on Jack Johnson

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Stallone said Wednesday that his newly launched Balboa Productions will start with a film about Johnson. On Thursday, Stallone stood next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office as he signed a rare posthumous pardon to Johnson, who served 10 months in prison in what Trump called "a racially-motivated injustice."
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Funny how things work. Boxing movie maker pushes President for pardon of boxer while planning a movie about him that will make another not so small fortune.

[NachoMan]

Jack Johnson was the inspiration for Apollo Creed? I always heard that the Rocky story was inspired by Chuck Wepner and that Creed was loosely based on Ali?

[Eff Pandas]

Nice. I like it. And will look forward to it. Hope Stallone is just a producer & that sorta thing doe. Not sure I love him being the director/writer.

[Da Pimper]

Why does Hollywood and mainstream media and **** all want to promote Cuck culture? What is with this fascination?

[Usetoloveboxing]

Good story, although I always felt Johnson was over rated. Tommy Burns was a cruiserweight, Ketchel although an all time great was the middleweight champion, and Jeffries had been retired for 7 years when they drug him out of retirement.

[Nomadic]

Ving Rhames just got his next lead role.

[Boxfan83]

Rampage Jackson!!!

[OCPancho]

Jack Johnson was the inspiration for Apollo Creed? I always heard that the Rocky story was inspired by Chuck Wepner and that Creed was loosely based on Ali?

It sure was .
Ali was the first heavyweight champ to talk trash .
He stole the schtick from Gorgeous George , of course .

[OCPancho]

The Great White Hope was already made for JJ.