Sentences with phrase «as a boxer»

This time, he packs on the muscle to become convincing as a boxer.

The young Bob earned a few cents busking, and after a brief career as a boxer he turned his talents to show business.

Toni trains as a boxer with her brother at a community center in Cincinnati's West End, but becomes fascinated by the dance team that also practices there.

The story unites Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro, known for iconic turns as boxers in Rocky and Raging Bull respectively, as two bitter boxing rivals who are coaxed back into the ring for a grudge match 50 years after they fought for the title.

Jake Gyllenhal as a boxer who took one too many punches, Rachel McAdams as his beautiful wife, hyper tracking shot along the ropes.

In pets that have arrhythmias due to their heart disease, such as boxers with ARVC, signs may be very sudden and very severe, in some cases even being fatal.

Jake Gyllenhaal takes a turn in the ring as boxer Billy «The Great» Hope in upcoming movie «Southpaw»

The 69 - year - old star received the best supporting actor awards for sports drama «Creed» for his performance as boxer Rocky Balboa in the movie.

AJ will eventually fight a stinker as all boxers do.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2015, Episode 12: 60 MINUTES SPORTS covers NBA legend Chris Mullin as coach of his alma mater St. John's, modern - day gladiators in Italy, as well as boxer Rubin «Hurricane» Carter's last fight outside the ring.

In third place on Friday was Creed, the sixth film to feature Sylvester Stallone as boxer Rocky Balboa following 1976's Academy Award winning Rocky.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on his early life as a boxer: «I'm not too sure all those blows I took to the head did me much good.»

Royalty Hightower, who does so much with so little words, is Toni, a 11 - year - old who trains as a boxer at her local rec center.

The setup: Hugh Jackman stars as a boxer whose chance at a title shot ends when the sport is taken over by robots.

Nominated for best actress were Annette Bening as a 1930s London stage diva in Being Julia; Catalina Sandino Moreno as a Colombian woman who takes on a perilous job as a drug mule in Maria Full of Grace; Imelda Staunton as a housekeeper who moonlights as an abortion practitioner in 1950s Britain in Vera Drake; Hilary Swank as a boxer whose life turns tragic in Million Dollar Baby; and Kate Winslet as a woman who has erased memories of her ex-boyfriend in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

«Gold» is due out in theaters Oct. 15 and comes on the heels of Ramírez's first mainstream film role as boxer Roberto Duran in «Hands of Stone.»

Bleed For This is a film by director Ben Younger and stars Miles Teller as a boxer named Vinny Pazienza.

«Creed» Ryan Coogler's reboot of the «Rocky» franchise has drawn raves, and Sylvester Stallone's supporting turn as boxer - turned - coach could earn him a supporting actor nod.

Now Jake Gyllenhaal takes a turn in the ring as boxer Billy «The Great» Hope in the upcoming movie «Southpaw.»

Catching Mickey Rourke during his decade as a promising leading man, before his sojourn as a boxer changed his physique and his career, two films revealed his considerable star power while failing to aid his ascendancy.

Michael B. Jordan (Erik «Killmonger» Stevens) Jordan, who brought gravitas and serious political significance to the role of villain Killmonger, will next make his second appearance as boxer Adonis Johnson in «Creed 2.»

In his ten years as a boxer, Wepner endured eight broken noses, 14 losses, two knockouts, a total of 313 stitches, and ultimately inspired the billion - dollar Rocky franchise.

Histiocytic ulcerative colitis is also known as boxer colitis because it often affects the boxer breed.

The exhibition's hinge is Self - Portrait, Fishman's 1960 self - portrait as a boxer,

Sirs: Liston and Clay are both stumblebums, if not as boxers then as people.

«I tried to tell him the things I'd do as a boxer if I were fighting Ali,» Benton says.

As boxers move, throw punches, lean, get hit, or fall to the floor, you'll see bones move and muscles contract realistically beneath their skin.

As the boxers for the main bout were summoned to the ring, a pile of officials and hangers - on scrambled in to mill around for the cameras from HBO.

We're not condemned to Terry Malloy's income - generating but dead - end job as a boxer ordered to take a dive, or to his life as a crony provided a sinecure on the docks.

Stephen S. Sawyer's art depicting a heavily muscled Jesus as a boxer in the ring, or with a tattoo also offends some Christians, at least the ones who see Jesus as having been meek and non-violent.

The crowd roared as the final bell sounded, and after the announcement that the judges had awarded the fight to Lonero, the crowd roared more loudly still as the boxers embraced.

He attended San Jose State in the»50s, where he played split end and competed as a boxer, and began his coaching career at Washington High in Fremont.

Floyd made millions because of his extraordinary talent as a boxer and overcame his situation; most in the same position will not.

He stressed that, other interesting programme to portray the monarch as a boxer would also be featured by younger boxers who would storm the venue of the event to add colour to the day from far and near.

If you want to get such firm abs as boxers have, you have to work for it, a lot.

He was semi-successful as a boxer but had difficulty continuing with the sport due to excessive pains and aches from his previous fights.

Based on a story by Richard Matheson, «Real Steel» is set in a sci - fi near future where robots have replaced humans as boxers, presumably because humans could no longer endure the mash - up thrills that audiences crave.

While «The Fighter» is meant to showcase Micky's rise as a boxer, and the conflict and struggles that go along with training, Russell made the right decision in also chronicling the characters» fights with each other.

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The female cast was equally acclaimed landing Best Supporting Actress nominations for both Melisa Leo as the boxer's antagonistic mother, and Amy Adams as the feisty girlfriend.

We see her immediate post-skating life, a brief time as a boxer.

It's also this journey that elevates «In the Name of the Father» slightly above Day - Lewis and Sheridan's third film, 1997's «The Boxer,» which, despite the actor's convincing physical transformation as a boxer, doesn't give the actor much to play outside of fatigued decency.

Julian's hands act as his sexual organ and his mode of violence as a boxer.

But Willis had already told Tarantino that he was willing to play anyone the director wanted in the movie, and ultimately reigned supreme with a samurai sword as the boxer Butch — a role that was originally out to Matt Dillon.

By the time Adonis leaves his caretaker's L.A. home and shoves off for Philadelphia to pursue his destiny as a boxer, his shoulder is made up almost entirely of chips.

Jordan's Adonis is confident as a boxer, but unsure of himself as a singular man.

Completing our Oscar trio of young British males in challenging roles, Tom Hardy tries that timeless trick of actors who want to push themselves but can't be bothered to bulk up as a boxer (which, hey, he's done already)-- playing twins.

After brief stints as a boxer and an insurance salesman, he paid his dues for several years on the Chitlin» Circuit honing his craft as a stand - up comedian.