
Let's Get Ready To Rumble: 10 Boxing Films To Revisit
Whenever we need that extra motivation to tackle damn near impossible odds, there’s nothing like watching a good ol' slugfest on the big screen.
Whenever we need that extra motivation to tackle damn near impossible odds, there’s nothing like watching a good ol' slugfest to help us knock out adversity.
Boxing films have been Hollywood cornerstones with bad a** characters having their biggest (and sometimes bloodiest) bouts in and outside the ring. Whether stories of real-life brawling legends like Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, and Jake Lamotta, or fictional fighters like Rocky Balboa, fight flicks were meant to beat up the big screen, for all the right reasons.
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In honor of the new Jake Gyllenhaal and 50 Cent film, Southpaw (in theaters today!), and the upcoming Rocky spinoff, Creed, starring Michael B. Jordan, here are 10 boxing films to dust off.—Mark Braboy (@DRD_Poetry17)


Rocky (1976)

Undisputed (2002)
Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes star in the 2002 boxing film that involves one man fighting for his honor and the other, for his freedom. Rhames plays Iceman Chambers, a boxer who’s convicted of rape and eventually fights the undisputed prison champion, Monroe Hutchen (Snipes). While it didn’t knock out at the box office, Undisputed still proves to be an entertaining boxing flick.

Tyson (1995)
In the first of many Mike Tyson biographical films and documentaries, actor and martial artist Michael Jai White stars as The Baddest Man on The Planet in the HBO movie. This film goes into his childhood upbringing in Catskills, Brooklyn and struggles leading up to his 1992 conviction for the alleged rape of Miss America contestant, Desiree Washington.

Girlfight (2000)

Diggstown (1992)

Real Steel (2011)

The Boxer (1997)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Ali (2001)
