Best Actor

What actor did the best job of playing a boxer?

Stallone - Rocky I-VI (Rocky Balboa)

Carl Weathers - Rocky I-IV (Apollo Creed)

Mr. T - Rocky III (Clubber Lang)

Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront (Terry Malloy)

Anthony Quinn - Requiem for a Heavyweight (Louis 'Mountain' Rivera)

Paul Newman - Somebody Up There Likes Me (Rocky Graziano)

John Wayne - The Quiet Man (Sean Thorton)


OR MY PERSONAL FAVORITE


Eddie Murphy - I-Spy (Kelly Robinson)

"Kelly Robinson, 57(fiddy seven) and 0!...Kelly Robinson!"

"Rachel: I'm with B.N.S.
Kelly Robinson: Yeah, what's B.N.S. stand for? Bitch that Needs some Slapping? "

"Give this man a hand, Cedric Mills everyone...he's getting in the ring with me, DAMN that's like swimmin with JAWS!"

"What's that you're sippin on Cedric, a steroid cocktail"

Eddie Murphy did a spot on Roy Jones Jr. imitation, speaking in the 3rd person, boasting and bragging and having fun....awesome film funny as fuck

Robert Deniro in Raging Bull without a doubt.

Rock without a d oubt one of the best deniro in raging bull, denzel for hurricane all good, i though wills smiths ali was ok nothing great.

The dude from the original Champ, Snipes in Undisputed!!!

hands down Dolph Lungren as IVAN DRAGO: I Must break you!

Brando and De Niro for me

No De Niro lyle? ::**:P

Sort it out... ;)

WIll Smith did an excellent job of playing Ali and boxing.

Stallone, Ludgren, call weathers etc might have good characters but none of them could box for shit :P

Helen Mirren was amazing in ElizabethI .

Can't wait for Elizabeth II the Revenge : this time its personal .



Why does Robert De Niro play the same stuttering moody fuck in every film ?

Kevin Pollack from Usual Suspects is the most underated fighter .

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Originally Posted by AdamGB

No De Niro lyle? ::**:P

Sort it out... ;)

WIll Smith did an excellent job of playing Ali and boxing.

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Yeah I knew right after I posted I left out DeNiro and Smith...I also knew yall would pick me up.

I liked Murphy for comedey and Brando for drama

Some good picks, guys - apart from Sly Stallone, carl Weathers, Dolph Lundgren etc.

In the interests of being controversial - how about James Toney as Joe Frazier (in 'Ali')

Toney did ok...I've never seen him stay THAT quiet in real life though

i liked mr t in rocky 3 the fierce staredown he does and bad attitude and the dude was strong as hell

Without a doubt...Russell Crowe in Cinderella Man.

Paul Giamatti as his promoter & corner man was the bomb too.

Honestly, that's one of the best boxing movies that's been made outside of Raging Bull & I honestly like Cinderella Man better due to the fact that it was a period peice that was done correctly.

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Originally Posted by wacko3205

Without a doubt...Russell Crowe in Cinderella Man.

Paul Giamatti as his promoter & corner man was the bomb too.

Honestly, that's one of the best boxing movies that's been made outside of Raging Bull & I honestly like Cinderella Man better due to the fact that it was a period peice that was done correctly.

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Russell Crowe was good, The guy who played Max Baer was good... accurate or not, and Paul Giamatti was really good.

Enjoyed that film quiet a bit, despite hating Rennee 'Lemon lips' Zelwegger

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Originally Posted by Lyle

Eddie Murphy did a spot on Roy Jones Jr. imitation, speaking in the 3rd person, boasting and bragging and having fun....awesome film funny as F***

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just saw that last week!!!! It was cool......but I would go with one or two that weren't mentioned....Million Dollar Baby....Hilary Swank or Cinderella Man...Russel Crowe both of these along with the Rocky movies I thought captured Boxing.....IMO...

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Originally Posted by AdamGB

No De Niro lyle? ::**:P

Sort it out... ;)

WIll Smith did an excellent job of playing Ali and boxing.

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as far as an actor changing for a role it rates wayyyy up there.....

DeNiro

Woody Harrelson in Play it to the Bone ;D

i was waiting on someone to drop the woody harrelson bomb

although no matter what role he takes I still him as micky knox from natural born killers ;)

Robert De Niro

Tommy Morrison as Tommy Gunn ;)

Toney actually made for a good Frazier in Ali even though I didn't enjoy that movie as much as you think I would (being a big Ali fan.)

I like De Niro and Russel Crowe. I think Crowe was about as good a boxerr as Braddock was to :P

Though I hated the way the gentlemen Baer was treated in that movie.