Subriel Matias vs. Jeremias Ponce (2023)

1930年代の南アフリカを舞台に、ボクシングを通して人種差別問題を鋭く描いた感動作。監督は『ロッキー』『ベスト・キッド』を生み出したジョン・G.アヴィルドセン。壮大なスケール感が見どころだ。

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. WHen these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.

The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Las Vegas -- Ricky Hatton makes his return to the MGM Grand boxing ring in a 12-round match that has given his dedicated and noisy fan base another reason to depart Manchester, England, in early winter. His opponent will be Brooklyn fighter Paulie Malignaggi, who has also lost only once, in 26 fights, and who may have been most impressive in his 12-round loss in June 2006 to Miguel Cotto.

　50年代のスウェーデン。主人公のイングマル少年は、兄と病気の母親、愛犬シッカンと暮らしている。父親は、仕事で南洋の海に出かけたままずっと帰ってこない。人工衛星に乗せられて地球最初の宇宙旅行者になったあのライカ犬の運命を思えば、どんな事だってたいしたことはないと考えるのが彼の人生哲学だ。やがて夏になり、母親の病状が悪化。イングマルは一人、田舎に住む叔父の元に預けられることになる。その村の住人は、一風変わった人ばかり。街に置いてきたシッカンのことが気になるものの、男の子のふりをしている女の子・サガとも仲良くなり、毎日を楽しく過ごすイングマルだったが…。

A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

ジョン・ウー監督のハリウッド進出第2弾は、ジョン・トラボルタの悪役ぶりが見事なハード・アクション。盗まれた核弾頭をめぐる争奪戦をスピーディに、そしてスリリングに描いている。

After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. "Honey" Roy Palmer is that man - although at 48, many say he is too old.

The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob.

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver.

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help.

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.