by Charles R. Horgan In this ongoing series, I will wade through the boxing films available to view on Netflix Streaming and give my honest review for each and every one of them--at least until I sag into the ropes and the ref waves it off. This week: The Opponent, 2000, 90 mins The Opponent, has sat in my queue for over a year. It doesn’t look very good. According … [Read more...]
Watch it on Netflix: The Boxing Girls of Kabul
by Charles R. Horgan As boxing fans, we know that there aren’t always fights on television. Even on nights when the main networks are airing fights, we can’t be guaranteed that the fights will be any good. For lonely evenings when YouTube clips set to unlicensed music aren’t doing the trick, some of us must turn to Netflix, and particularly in my situation: Netflix … [Read more...]
From Boxing to the Big Screen: 5 boxing stories that should be told
by The Green Machine There are quite a few boxing related movies out there. If you look real hard you’ll find plenty you never heard of and some aren’t as old as you would think. Of course the boxing-themed movie has become rarer these days and any biographical release based on real fighters is almost non-existent. Will Smith did an excellent job in Ali, and Meg Ryan … [Read more...]