Randolph Turpin doc/film (64 Day Hero - from the 80s). Excellent. Fact.

[Beanz]

One hell of a story, at turns both glorious and grubby. Randolph Adolphous Turpin much more elegant in that final fateful letter than on the balcony at Leamington Spa. At turns full of unstoppable courage, and at others belittling cowardice, it is a small but epic film that makes one equally proud and ashamed to be born and raised on this verdant Isle. The Leamington licker who handed out and took some frightful punishment, and exhibited no little grace and skill, with a thunderous punching power, that when not fueled by desire seemed to desert him. There is the comic foil of a fighter, who was anything but a fencer, marrying a Welsh beauty queen who now looks like Peter Kay, and the ugly parody of Wrestling injuring him more than boxing. It is such a fitting film in which just to keep the unlikeliness of the story intact, presents us with an accountant, whose heartfelt and unfortunately ever prescient tribute, reminds us of the fate that many of those who fight for a living, have to in the end, fight for the scraps of a life, and lends his testimony more understated gravitas and truth because of his brown attire and colourless delivery.

Brilliant find Fenster. Both made my Day and left me gutted. You Glorious Wanker

[Fenster]

One hell of a story, at turns both glorious and grubby. Randolph Adolphous Turpin much more elegant in that final fateful letter than on the balcony at Leamington Spa. At turns full of unstoppable courage, and at others belittling cowardice, it is a small but epic film that makes one equally proud and ashamed to be born and raised on this verdant Isle. The Leamington licker who handed out and took some frightful punishment, and exhibited no little grace and skill, with a thunderous punching power, that when not fueled by desire seemed to desert him. There is the comic foil of a fighter, who was anything but a fencer, marrying a Welsh beauty queen who now looks like Peter Kay, and the ugly parody of Wrestling injuring him more than boxing. It is such a fitting film in which just to keep the unlikeliness of the story intact, presents us with an accountant, whose heartfelt and unfortunately ever prescient tribute, reminds us of the fate that many of those who fight for a living, have to in the end, fight for the scraps of a life, and lends his testimony more understated gravitas and truth because of his brown attire and colourless delivery.

Brilliant find Fenster. Both made my Day and left me gutted. You Glorious Wanker

Wish I had wrote this post. Excellent.