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Freddie Roach vs Joe Ruelaz (1/3) Rare Fight Footage
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When We Were Kings $7.66 Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in 1996. It was well worth the delay. From Gast’s perspective of modern history, the six weeks Ali and Foreman were forced to spend … |
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Soul Power $8.79 While Leon Gast captured the “Rumble in the Jungle” in his Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings, his editor, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, using Gast’s original footage, preserves the music portion of the event in Soul Power. In 1974 Stewart Levine and Hugh Masekela organized a three-day festival to celebrate African and African-American music in conjunction with the heavyweight bout. Just as Gast p… |
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Soul Power [Blu-ray] $10.30 While Leon Gast captured the “Rumble in the Jungle” in his Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings, his editor, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, using Gast’s original footage, preserves the music portion of the event in Soul Power. In 1974 Stewart Levine and Hugh Masekela organized a three-day festival to celebrate African and African-American music in conjunction with the heavyweight bout. Just as Gast p… |
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Boxing’s Best – Rocky Marciano [VHS] $9.98 One of the greatest heavyweight boxers in boxing history, see Rocky Marciano in exciting ring action as he k.o.s Rex Layne in 1951; power-punches Jersey-Joe Walcott for the championship; pummels Archie Moore into submission – and more!… |
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Boxing’s Best – Jack Dempsey [VHS] $5.98 A hard-hitting look at the life and career of heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey from his savage defeat of Luis Firpo to his own defeat under the flying fists of Gene Tunney. A ringside look at the ‘ ‘Manassa Mauler.’ ‘… |
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Thrilla in Manila – Ali vs. Frazier III 1975 [VHS] $9.98 … |
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The Fighter $3.37 It would be a mistake to confuse The Fighter with the story of Mark Wahlberg, though the similarities are striking. Completely convincing as a boxer, Wahlberg plays welterweight Micky Ward, who grew up in working-class Massachusetts. Like the actor-producer, he had eight siblings, one more famous than the rest. Ward’s half-brother, Dicky Eklund (a gaunt, crazy-eyed Christian Bale), turned to boxin… |
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Warrior $8.00 Some men make their peace by hugging it out, but the men in Warrior communicate through their fists. Paddy Condon (Nick Nolte) trained his sons to be ultimate fighting champions, but alcohol, divorce, and a span of 14 years has driven them apart. Now Brendan (Animal Kingdom’s Joel Edgerton) works as a science teacher, while Tommy (Tom Hardy, looking even burlier than he did in Bronson) has returne… |
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Cinderella Man (Widescreen Edition) $3.56 Cinderella Man is a wholesome slice of old-fashioned Americana, offering welcomed relief from the shallowness of many summer blockbusters. In dramatizing the legendary Depression-era comeback of impoverished boxer Jim Braddock, director Ron Howard benefits from another superb collaboration with his A Beautiful Mind star Russell Crowe, whose portrayal of Braddock is simultaneously warm, noble, and … |
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Fight Night Champion $19.69 Fight Night Champion is a multiplayer boxing game for play on Xbox 360 that blends traditional one-on-one pugilistic action of previous games in the Fight Night franchise with new, more gritty story-driven gameplay rooted in the all-new Champion Mode. Game features include: unprecedented precision and accuracy of punches; local and online multiplayer support for four and ten players respectively… |
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