By Ken Hissner: In doing my analysis about boxing films, I couldn’t consider one article was “The Greatest 100 Boxing Films.”
I may consider about half a dozen off the highest of my head. After I began my analysis, others talked about jogged my memory of these I forgot about. I’m the one individual in boxing that I do know who didn’t assume the unique “Rocky” was plausible and by no means watched one other related to it.
- No. 1 is my all-time favourite boxing film starring my all-time favourite actor John Garfield within the authentic “Physique and Soul” film in 1947. Garfield was an novice boxer, from what I’ve learn.
- No. 2 “Champion” a boxer’s rise to fame by stepping on others starring Kirk Douglas in 1949.
- Let’s identify one other 13 films, and you may add ones I depart off. I’ll begin with the one’s I watched first.
- No. 3 is “Hurricane,” was the film based mostly on the lifetime of middleweight Rubin “Hurricane” Carter starring Denzel Washington in 1999.
- No. 4 is “Cinderella Man,” the lifetime of heavyweight champion
James Braddock starring Russell Crowe in 2005. - No.5 is “The Tougher They Fall,” about an ex-sports author employed by a shady promoter to advertise his fighter starring Humphrey Bogart, amongst others, in 1956.
- No. 6 “Million Greenback Child” starring Clint Eastwood and Hillary Swank in 2004.
- No. 7 is “Ali” wasn’t certainly one of my favorites because it starred whom Muhammad Ali referred to as “Jughead” starring Jamie Foxx in 2001.
- No. 8 was “Rocky” starring Sylvester Stallone in 1976.
- No. 9 “Raging Bull” story about Middleweight champion Jake LaMotta starring Robert DiNero in 1980.
- No. 10 “Any person Up There Likes Me” about Middleweight champion Rocky Graziano starring Paul Newman in 1956.
- No. 11 “Gentleman Jim” story about heavyweight champion Jim Corbett starring Errol Flynn in 1942.
- No. 12 “The Nice White Hope” about heavyweight champion Jack “Galveston Big” Johnson starring Samuel L. Jackson in 1996.
- No. 13 “Requiem for A Heavyweight” starring Anthony Quinn enjoying a fictional heavyweight felled by Cassius Clay in 1962.
- No. 14 “The Champ” is a few down-on-his-luck boxer starring Wallace Beery in 1931.
- No. 15 “Massive George Foreman” starring Forest Whitaker in 2023.