boxing – Susan Hated Literature

Creed

18 January 2016 18 January 2016 2

I find myself unable to really blurb this film. I mean, yeah, the bare bones of it are an orphan kid tries to find himself through boxing. Gets mentored by his father best friend, Rocky, and because of his father’s famous name gets a shot at the title himself. Only …

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Real Steel [based on short story]

8 April 2012 9 April 2012 4

Set in the not too distant future, Real Steel is all about Robot Boxing. Human boxing just couldn’t live with the public’s demand for yet more violence, and so robots were built to destroy one another. And this high tech violence led to the end of human violence as entertainment, …

Honk, Sport

RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Awards | gaelick

24 December 2011 24 December 2011

Katie Taylor is undoubtedly Ireland’s greatest sports person ever. She is one of the greatest female boxers in the world.Her father, and coach, Peter Taylor has already expressed his dismay at the lack of coverage her achievements receive. The way she is treated by the State’s national broadcaster is a disgrace.Sort it the fuck out, RTÉ.

via RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Awards | gaelick.

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The Fighter

20 March 2011 20 January 2012 4

IMDb ; Metacritic Micky Ward is the youngest of a large family. All his life he has looked up to his older brother, Dicky, who once knocked down Sugar Ray Leonard in a fight. But Dicky is no longer the “pride of Lowell”, he is now a drug addict who …

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Rocky Balboa

27 January 2007 20 February 2012 7

It isn’t often that you describe a boxing film as sweet. It isn’t often I describe a film as sweet and mean that in a positive light, but if I was asked for a one word review of Rocky Balboa, then sweet would be it. And that is sweet in …

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Cinderella Man

16 September 2005 22 January 2012

– Joe Gould Based on the true story of James J Braddock. A boxing film. Set during the Depression. Consider all of these things and you may be thinking that this is a sentimental boxer-overcoming-hardship film, and, in a way you’d be right. But Cinderella Man is much, much more …

Books

Million Dollar Baby

1 March 2005 22 January 2012

Forget the film, read these short stories instead

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Million Dollar Baby [based on book]

22 January 2004 16 October 2014

The critics have been raving over this film. Don’t know why, I found it overlong, boring and more than a little predictable.