Sentences with phrase «boxing promoters»

Written and directed by Guy Ritchie, this is a classic caper involving boxing promoters, bookies, amateur crooks, and a Russian gangster.

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.

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.

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.»

Like so many other boxing promoters looking for action and pro prospects, Lewis went to the Olympics in Montreal.

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.

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?»

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.

During a ceremony honoring boxing promoter Don King, NAACP president Kweisi Mfume likened King to Jackie Robinson as a trailblazer.

According to boxing promoter Bob Arum, the fight nearly took place in Las Vegas, with then - Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt endorsing the fight.

She has worked as a steel broker and boxing promoter who rubbed elbows with Don King in the rough - and - tumble fighting world.

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.

An unlicensed boxing promoter gets involved with a big - time criminal, and a heist goes awry when a valuable jewel is missing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thirty years later, a boxing promoter attempts to coax them out of retirement for one final bout... Grudge Match is set up -LSB-...]

His friend (Michael Smiley), a shady boxing promoter, asks him to burn down a house and so unfolds a crime story.

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.

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.

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).

Not exact matches

It is against the rules of the California boxing commission for a manager to be a promoter, but Flaherty's promotions have been an open and ignored secret for years.

And in boxing, a sport that has tolerated the presence of female promoters on more than one occasion, Josephine Abercrombie, a wealthy Houston socialite, is making headway.

How they go about doing this isn't exactly clear but they managed it in boxing and other sports and it sure wasn't the generosity of promoters that made it happen either.

Thereafter, Tygart moved aggressively to expand USADA's footprint in boxing and forged a working relationship with Richard Schaefer, who until 2014 served as CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, one of boxing's most influential promoters.

It is building its following with solid analysis and provocative opinions; In an era when the Web is the best source for boxing information, houseofboxing.com is becoming, says promoter Dan Goosen, «the place to go for the inside scoop.»

Harold Smith, the promoter who swindled a bank out of $ 21.3 million, is back in boxing, guiding Larry Holmes

E: not to say that I particularly trust the BJS promotional team, but it's boxing, no promoter is all that trustworthy

He is the biggest jackass in boxing, followed closely by his promoter.

Without a national boxing commission to police it, to enforce and improve safety regulations, some promoters and even some of the state commissions live only by the color of money.

«We» were Grandi, Olinekova and a young boxing and body - building promoter named David Zelon.

«You don't invite people to a boxing bout if you don't write to their promoters,» he said.

Many people profit from boxing, especially the promoters and the media who report on fights and then gossip about the later travails of boxers and their families.

Slated for 67 days from now (August 26th), the strictly boxing bout with mixed principled opponents promises to be a revenue smasher for not only promoters and the fighters themselves, but also the newly raised T - Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV.

Charlie is a down - and - out former boxer turned sleazy fight promoter on the underground robot boxing circuit in a world where machines have replaced humans as prizefighting combatants.

Charlie was once a professional boxer but now is a small - time promoter in the newest U.S. sporting craze, no - holds robot boxing.

Set in the not - too - distant future where the sport of boxing has replaced human fighters with massive, remote - controlled robots, Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a former boxer turned small - time promoter who makes a living traveling from one venue to the next with whatever robot he can scrape together.

(Forest Whitaker is well cast as the smalltime trainer who gives Billy a second chance; Curtis «50 Cent» Jackson less so as the mercenary promoter who proves there's no such thing as loyalty in boxing as long as there's cash money to be made.)

When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill (Ray Winstone) cornerman Eddie (Michael Smiley) and promoter Joe (Ian McShane).

Rather than having recognizable supporting players like Jeffrey Wright (as photographer Howard Bingham), Ron Silver (as trainer Angelo Dundee), Paul Rodriguez (as boxing physician Bernie Pacheco), Joe Morton (as lawyer Chauncey Estridge) and Mykelti Williamson (as promoter Don King) give their real - life counterparts spotlight moments of revelatory dialogue and defining characterization, they're flattened and wound as finely engineered brushstrokes winding around the enigmatic center.

The film takes place in 2020, where robots have replaced humans in the boxing ring and Jackman plays a retired boxer turned small - time promoter who sees potential in a discarded robot.

Promoter Frank Warren insists James DeGale will not walk away from boxing despite the Londoner hinting at retirement following his shock defeat by Caleb Truax.

When his notoriety and prowess in the boxing ring catch the eye of a local promoter, Majid is given a shot at the big time.

Rendall makes the argument that boxing is based on the disposability of its only commodity (the fighters) and the invincibility of its most unsavory element (the promoters) by exploring the career of Colin McMillan, then the world featherweight champion.