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I need your help - Is Undisputed the best boxing film?


Hi everybody I am doing a project for college on boxing films. Basically I want your opinions. Do you think that undisputed is the best boxing film of all time? If so why/why not? Do you feel that undisputed accuratley portrays the sport of boxing? If so how?
Finally, have any of you taken up boxing after watching undisputed?
If you can help me I would be very grateful

Thank you for your time

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Do you Know what the Best Boxing movie ever? It's Rocky 1,2,3,4,5,6

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Some of the movies that are not mentioned, but are worthy, in my opinion:

The Set-Up
Body and Soul
Somebody Up There Likes Me

The other ones that are worthy:

Requiem For a Heavyweight
Cinderella Man
Raging Bull

Rocky is a cult movie, but it hasn't anything to do with reality when it comes to fights.

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Thank you! I was starting to pity these kids who've never seen a film before 1980.

The Set-Up is fabulous, as is Body and Soul. But you forgot about Champion, City of Conquest and The Harder They Fall.

Hard to beat Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight, but Raging Bull comes very close. And among more recent films, I enjoyed Cinderella Man, The Boxer and The Great White Hype (if you can tolerate Damon Wayans as an undefeated knockout artist) very much. Rocky was also fun, even though the sequels were awful (save for Rocky III) but they really aren't too genuine when it comes to the sweet science. Michael Mann's Ali was better than all of them put together. Undisputed, Diggstown, Gladiator (1992), Streets of Gold, Fat City, Girlfight, Fight Night, even Elvis's Kid Galahad all had wonderful boxing moments. I'd include When We Were Kings, too, way up on the list, but it's a documentary and seems to have an unfair advantage on the realism tip.

Ultimately, it comes down to Requiem for a Heavyweight or Raging Bull as the best fictional boxing movie ever.

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noooooooooooo

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rocky movies are total *beep*
I never understood why morons love them so much, or love stallone for that matter.


This is my favorite boxing movie because it's fun - lots of good character acting going on, and walter hill is a living legend

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Take the time to find "Gentleman Jim" with Errol Flynn, and one of my all time faves "Hard Times" with Charles Bronson.

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There’s no college on Earth that would accept anonymous citations from an internet website in any kind of paper.

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Rocky

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