Sentences with phrase «boxing promoter»
A boxing promoter is a person or company that organizes and promotes boxing matches. They bring fighters together, arrange the event, and handle advertising and ticket sales. Their goal is to make the fights popular and financially successful. Full definition
Our guide through the convolutions of this twisty tale is Turkish (Jason Statham), an unlicensed boxing promoter who is business partners and best friends with Tommy (Stephen Graham), who is in the slot machine business.
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Perplexed The guests of boxing promoter Don King at his 61st - birthday party, in New York City, by the birthday boy.
Lance's guest list is surprisingly eclectic: musicians like Seal, Ben Harper, Tim Commerford and Ryan Bingham; boxing promoter Bob Arum; tennis legend Chris Evert; Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff... and just this week, former Green Beret Nate Boyer, who last week stood beside Colin Kaepernick as Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem prior to a preseason game against the Chargers.
Abercrombie set up the Houston Boxing Association four years ago with the aim of joining Don King and Bob Arum at the top level of boxing promoters.
An unlicensed boxing promoter gets involved with a big - time criminal, and a heist goes awry when a valuable jewel is missing.
Other support work comes from Ciaran Hinds and an underutilized Katey Sagal as Vinny's dad and mom, and Ted Levine and Jordan Gelber as boxing promoters Lou and Dan Duva.
Written and directed by Guy Ritchie, this is a classic caper involving boxing promoters, bookies, amateur crooks, and a Russian gangster.
During a ceremony honoring boxing promoter Don King, NAACP president Kweisi Mfume likened King to Jackie Robinson as a trailblazer.
And while you might think it'd be worth signing with GB to get those fights, we all know that boxing promoters don't always deliver what they promised.
Like so many other boxing promoters looking for action and pro prospects, Lewis went to the Olympics in Montreal.
I never understood boxing promoters.
Trailing the far - flying Bill Rosensohn, Sports Illustrated's man discovers the beginnings of what may be a quadruple entente among the world's foremost boxing promoters
Several boxing promoters have complained about disarray within the NYSAC, with one prominent figure in the New York boxing industry charging, «They just don't care.»
Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a former boxer and robot boxing promoter who's too obsessed with winning to notice that he's pretty much a complete loser.
Synopsis: Broke and without work, newspaper reporter Eddie Willis (Humphrey Bogart) agrees to work for the corrupt boxing promoter Nick Benko (Rod Steiger) t...
However, until that happens, I'm content to watch this multi-talented actor / performer in whatever screen roles he chooses — Wolverine, an Australian drover, a deceitful partner — or, as in Real Steel, a struggling boxing promoter whose many character flaws include a willingness to sell his 11 - year - old son.
A novel by Paul Gallico provides the plot for this tale of a down - on - his - luck boxing promoter (Elliott Gould).
Major broadcast deal will reignite boxing in US for fans May 10, 2018, New York: Matchroom Boxing, a world leading boxing promoter, and Perform Group, the digital leader in global...
On the other side of the story is boxing promoter Turkish (Jason Statham) up to his neck in all sorts of problems.
Michael Gordon Peterson — dubbed «Charles Bronson» by a bare - knuckle boxing promoter — was arrested in 1974 at age 22, and sentenced to seven years in prison for armed robbery.
Snatch (2000): Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
The film drums up some disdain for the opportunistic boxing promoters who would set up such a revenge - themed fight, as though it weren't orchestrating that very same fictional bout itself.
Though the supporting cast doesn't have much to do — save for Ana de Armas, who's slowly becoming an actress to watch between her work here and in last week's «War Dogs» — it's filled with veteran actors like Blades, Turturro, Ellen Barkin and Reg E. Cathey (as flamboyant boxing promoter Don King) who know how to make the most of their limited screen time.
His friend (Michael Smiley), a shady boxing promoter, asks him to burn down a house and so unfolds a crime story.
WHAT: 30 years after their last fight, boxing rivals Henry «Razor» Sharp (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy «The Kid» McDonnen (Robert De Niro) agree to come out of retirement for one final match when boxing promoter Dante Slate Jr. (Kevin Hart) makes them an offer they can't refuse: the chance to prove who's the best once and for all.
With a documentary about their rivalry renewing interest in the two fighters, Dante Slate Jr. (Kevin Hart), the son of the dishonest boxing promoter who made Sharp and McDonnen famous, convinces the men to provide motion - capture work an upcoming video game.
Jimmy is almost immediately offered a way out through a financial dangling carrot by way of a # 2000 purse presented by unlicensed boxing promoter Joe Padgett (a menacing Ian McShane).
In Hannah Tinti's novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Hawley and Jove are sent to recover an antique watch, a priceless item stolen from a crooked boxing promoter and now in the hands of a thief - survivalist living on an island off Washington's coast.
He changed his name to Palermo, taking the pseudonym from the American boxing promoter Blinky Palermo («Blinky» later became his nickname; Palermo was his chosen artist name).
C - list celebrity boxing promoter Damon Feldman has filed a lawsuit bringing defamation charges against John McNesby over comments McNesby made on a Fox 29 television interview.
He enlisted, among others, boxing promoter Bob Arum and the WWE's own Vince McMahon.
Introducing Donald Trump to a group of pastors in Cleveland, boxing promoter Don King called the GOP nominee «the only gladiator» who can take on a system that King said is «rigged» and «racist» and «sexist.»
She has worked as a steel broker and boxing promoter who rubbed elbows with Don King in the rough - and - tumble fighting world.
Like any boxing promoter, the press hypes every election, exaggerating differences between the parties and hyping each candidate as a legitimate contender, Matt Taibbi wrote in an article on the Republican convention for Rolling Stone: «Otherwise, why watch?»
According to boxing promoter Bob Arum, the fight nearly took place in Las Vegas, with then - Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt endorsing the fight.
The IG's office also alerted Hooker it will criticize Ag & Markets for not seeking competitive bids when it hired a boxing promoter to present matches during the 2009 fair, according to one source.
Also staring in the film, Rachel McAdams plays Hope's wife; 50 Cent is a boxing promoter; and Forest Whitaker is a former boxer named Tick who helps Hope train for a redemption bout.
Thirty years later, a boxing promoter attempts to coax them out of retirement for one final bout... Grudge Match is set up -LSB-...]
Right now he lives in a rundown hotel, but if he can get enough support behind the event, he's hoping to erase the bad image his father left in the industry and make a name for himself as a boxing promoter.
The site allows players to walk in the shoes of a boxing promoter, namely Don King, and coaches you in the fine art of trash talking, promoting a fighter, and bout.
The name refers to Frank «Blinky» Palermo, an American Mafioso and boxing promoter who managed Sonny Liston.